The 60-year-old Belgian had had very successful tenures running London’s Tate Modern and Munich’s Haus der Kunst when he was recruited to lead the former East Berlin’s “People’s Stage”; as an outsider and non-theatre person, he faced stiff local resistance and resigned after about a year. Now he’s been named president of the Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, which operates the Musée du Luxembourg as well as the Palais, Paris’s flagship art fair and exhibition venue.