Article date: Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Rediscovered Diego Rivera Painting Acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has acquired a major, rediscovered painting by the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957). The 1928 painting La Bordadora (The Embroiderer) had been in the collection of a New Orleans family since they acquired it, shortly after the work was completed.
Article date: Monday, March 21, 2022
Russia Bombs Art School in Mariupol, Ukraine
Russia recently attacked an art school in Mariupol. The bombing took place on March 19, 2022 in Mariupol’s Livoberezhny District where nearly 400 women, children and elderly were sheltering, Mariupol city council reports.
Article date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Smithsonian to Return Most of Its Benin Bronze Collection to Nigeria
The Smithsonian Institution, one of the world’s largest cultural organisations, stated on Tuesday that it deliberated to return most of its assortment of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.
Article date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Prized Turner Paintings Return to Britain for the First Time in a Century
Two ground-breaking pictures by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) will return to the UK for the first time in over 100 years, as part of a new National Gallery focus exhibition.
Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022
UNESCO Voices Concern on the Developments in Ukraine
UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in Ukraine and is working to assess damage across its spheres of competence (notably education, culture, heritage and information) and to implement emergency support actions.
Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022
Russian Owned Phillips Pledges Proceeds from its London March Sale to Ukrainian Red Cross Society
Russian owned auction house, Phillips, has pledged to donate 100% of the proceeds from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale from March 3, 2022, to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.
Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022
Hermitage Amsterdam Breaks Off its Relationship with Russia
It is with difficulty that the supervisors, directors, management and employees of the Hermitage Amsterdam break ties with the Hermitage Saint Petersburg. Over the past decades, the collaborations with Russian colleagues have been harmonious...
Article date: Friday, March 4, 2022
Guest Artists Space, an Initiative of Yinka Shonibare Foundation Launches in Nigeria
The Guest Artists Space (G.A.S) Foundation, an initiative of renowned Nigerian-British artist, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, recently welcomed cultural stakeholders to the opening of its new space designed for artist and creative residencies in Lagos.
Article date: Friday, March 4, 2022
Russian Forces Strike Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Site in Kyiv, Ukraine
BYHMC Advisory Board Chair Natan Sharanksy:
“Putin seeks to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent...
Article date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Pyotr Petr Aven Stepped Down as a Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust
With various sanctions increasingly being placed on Russia and Russians around the world, many art and cultural institutions are also following suit resulting in Pyotr Petr Aven stepped down as trustee of the Royal Academy Trust.
Article date: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Painting by Kandinsky Transferred to Heirs of Former Jewish Owners
The painting 'Bild mit Häusern' by Wassily Kandinsky has been transferred to the heirs of the Jewish former owners. The painting has been the subject of a dispute between the municipality of Amsterdam and the heirs.
Article date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Pyotr (Petr) Aven and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
The EU has frozen the assets and imposed a travel ban on more than half a dozen of Russia’s most prominent oligarchs, many of them with close ties to President Vladimir Putin, one of them is Petr Aven, founder of Alfa Bank.
Article date: Monday, February 28, 2022
Photos by Mikhail Palinchak from Kyiv: Stand with Ukraine, Support Ukraine, Pray for Ukraine!
Mikhail Palinchak (born 1985 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine) shares recent documentary of the ongoing war on Ukaraine by Russia. To accompany these photos, is an embedded 2018 interview with Palinchak, where he speaks on his practice.
Article date: Thursday, February 24, 2022
Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine in Jordanian Desert
A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists says it found a nearly 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert.
Article date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Chile Museum to Return Easter Island 'Head'
Chile's National Museum of Natural History said Monday it will return to Easter Island an enormous stone statue taken from the Rapa Nui people and brought to the mainland 150 years ago.
Article date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Belgium Provides DR Congo with Inventory of Looted Artefacts
Belgium on Thursday gave the DR Congo an inventory of tens of thousands of art objects from the former Belgian Congo held in its colonial era museum, the latest step in the restitution of looted artefacts.
Article date: Sunday, February 20, 2022
Conceptual Artist, Dan Graham Passes Away at 79
Marian Goodman Gallery, Lisson Gallery, 303 Gallery and Regen Projects and a global art scene mourn a great artist, Dan Graham, who sadly died this weekend in New York.
Article date: Friday, February 18, 2022
Victor Ehikhamenor’s Installation Work ‘Still Standing’ at St Paul’s Cathedral in London
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, recently unveiled the bold new artwork Still Standing by Nigerian-born artist, Victor Ehikhamenor, on display in the crypt from 17 February to 14 May 2022.
Article date: Friday, February 11, 2022
Restitution of Looted Painting and Opening of Two Thematic Rooms at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts
This is the first time in Belgium that a work of art stolen from a Jewish family has been restituted by a museum.
Article date: Thursday, February 10, 2022
$1 Million Painting Vandalised After ‘Bored’ Security Guard Draws Eyes On Faceless Figures
The 'Three Figures' painting by Anna Leporskaya was defaced at the Yeltsin Centre, located in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Sverdlovsk Oblast region in west-central Russia on 7 December 2021, by a 'bored' 60-year-old security guard.
