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Robert Dex

Australian arts boss returns to take Barbican helm

A general view of the Barbican Centre (Getty Images)

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A Londoner who helped run the Sydney Opera House is returning to the capital to take charge at the Barbican.

Claire Spencer, who has run the Arts Centre Melbourne for seven years, will take the helm at the cultural institution as it celebrates its 40th anniversary and prepares for a multi-million-pound overhaul of the brutalist building.

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