Director and Chairman to leave ICA London

Both the Institute of Contemporary Art's Executive Director, Ekow Eshun, and the Chairman of the troubled institution's council, Alan Yentob, have announced that they will be leaving the London arts centre, it emerged late in the working day, Friday. There has been no official explanation of the development, other than a rushed-out early evening press release (its a public holiday in the UK this Monday - meaning it's a perfect time to slip out something you want to pass under the radar) stating that having now set some sort of stable platform for the ICA's future (it was rumoured to be on the brink of closure following a financial crisis earleir this year) Eshun felt it was time to move on. Yentob claimed only to have hung on in there to support his director. There are many, however, who feel that the pair were in no small way responsible for the institution's woes, and that their exit has come rather late in the day.