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Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Koyo Kouoh, First African Woman appointed to lead Venice Biennale in 2026 has died
Koyo Kouoh, the visionary Cameroonian-born curator and Executive Director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has died. She was 57.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Statement by the Drents Museum regarding the hearing of the Suspects in the Art Theft
Yesterday, two suspects in the violent attack on our museum, during which the golden helmet of Coțofenești and the three golden bracelets were stolen, appeared before court. It was an unprecedented assault in the more than 170 years of the Drents Museum's existence.
Article date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Dutch Prosecution: Abundance of Evidence in theft Romanian Artifacts Drents Museum
Two men, aged 35 and 36, from the Dutch town of Heerhugowaard will remain in pre-trial detention for an additional ninety days. The North Netherlands District Court decided this on Friday during a public hearing in the city of Assen. The court believes there is sufficient reason for this decision, given the role of the suspects in the art heist at the Drents Museum on January 25, 2025.
Article date: Friday, May 9, 2025
Julie Fragar wins Archibald Prize 2025
Brisbane artist Julie Fragar has won the Archibald Prize 2025 and $100,000 for her portrait of fellow Brisbane artist and colleague Justene Williams, titled Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), which depicts Williams as an ‘active master of a multiverse of characters and events’.
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Experts demand Russia be ejected from ICOM
French civil society “For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours!” (“Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre!”) has called for Russia’s expulsion from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Undercover Cops approached Drents Museum Heist Suspect trying to find Romanian Treasures
Dutch police used undercover cops in the investigation into the theft of Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen in January Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.
Article date: Thursday, May 8, 2025
Major Chila Kumari Singh Burman Retrospective to reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027
The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Lisa Nandy, announced that the first major retrospective by Chila Kumari Singh Burman, one of the UK’s most celebrated artists, will reopen Tate Liverpool in 2027 following the gallery’s transformation.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
South African Minister calls for return of African Artifacts from Former Colonial Powers
South African Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie made the remarks at the second G20 Culture Working Group session held in Johannesburg, the largest city and economic hub of South Africa.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
King Charles III and Queen Camilla's Coronation Portraits unveiled
Two new paintings, commissioned to mark Their Majesties' Coronation in 2023, have been unveiled by The King and Queen at the National Gallery.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Tough Mold in Danish Museums is threatening Historic Collections
A type of mold resilient enough to survive on the ocean floor has now appeared in Danish museums.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
New Museum to unveil Sculpture by Tschabalala Self created for Museum’s Facade in Fall 2025
The New Museum announced that Tschabalala Self (b. 1990, Harlem, New York; lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York) will create a new sculpture for the building’s facade to be unveiled in fall 2025.
Article date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Sotheby’s postpones Hong Kong sale of Buddha relics after India intervenes
Sale by family of 19th century British engineer of ‘duplicates’ of sacred relics he found in India called illegal by Indian government.
Article date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The King and Queen reopen the National Gallery Sainsbury Wing
The King and Queen visited the National Gallery to officially reopen the Sainsbury Wing after its 2-year transformational capital project.
Article date: Tuesday, May 6, 2025
From Speculation to Stewardship: Preserving Digital Culture on the Blockchain
The NFT boom of 2020 was an explosive moment in the history of digital art. Seemingly overnight a somewhat obscure category of contemporary art took center stage, alongside a powerful and nebulous technology – ‘the blockchain.’
Article date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Arts and Cultural Industries grew at Twice the Rate of the U.S. Economy
The arts and cultural sector grew at more than twice the rate of the total economy between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), a product of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
Article date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Tragedy in Jordan: Two Belgian Tourists found Dead, 1,700 evacuated from UNESCO Site Petra
A major search and rescue operation had been launched in Jordan after flash floods ripped through vast parts of the country at the weekend.
Article date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Marlene Dumas is set to break the Auction Record for an Artwork by a Living Female Artist
Miss January stands as the most significant work from Marlene Dumas to ever appear at auction.
Article date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Influential Video Artist Dara Birnbaum dies at 78
Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist and video art movements who probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media, died, May 2, at age 78.
Article date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Schiele's "Russian War Prisoner" stays at Art Institute of Chicago for now, a Judge decides
A New York judge ruled recently that Art Institute of Chicago has to surrender a contested Schiele artwork that the Nazis allegedly looted, but an appellate judge issued an emergency stay this week, allowing the artwork to stay in Chicago, for now.
Article date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
A Masterpiece by Canaletto that belonged to Britain's First Prime Minister leads Classic Week in London
Christie’s is to sell a view of Venice by Canaletto which was once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, in its Old Masters evening sale on 1 July. It is estimated to make in excess of £20m.