Article date: Monday, April 4, 2022
Spectacular View of Verona Worth £11 Million at Risk of Leaving the UK
Export bar is to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the painting worth £11 million, the painting is a rare example of one of Bellotto’s early masterpieces.
Article date: Friday, April 1, 2022
Cultural Deal for Europe Partners Call on EU leaders to Support Cultural Actors from Ukraine
The partners of the Cultural Deal for Europe – the European Cultural Foundation, Culture Action Europe and Europa Nostra, also acting on behalf of the European Heritage Alliance wrote to the Ministers of Culture of the EU Member States calling for support to cultural actors from Ukraine.
Article date: Friday, April 1, 2022
Office of Contemporary Art Norway Appoints Ruben Steinum as New Director
The Board of OCA is proud to announce the appointment of Ruben Steinum as new director. Steinum will lead the institution for the next four years.
Article date: Thursday, March 31, 2022
Further Support Given to Over 300 Cultural Organisations to Survive Beyond the Pandemic and Protect Jobs
Hundreds of cultural organisations have received a share of the final £35 million emergency support package from the Culture Recovery Fund, to help overcome the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Article date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
The Warhol Museum Launches Warhol TV, an Online Streaming Platform
The Andy Warhol Museum has announced the launch of The Warhol TV, a new streaming platform that provides viewers the opportunity to view free, unique museum content as well as to rent a growing selection of Warhol’s more than 400 films and over 2,500 videos from the museum’s expansive collection.
Article date: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Qatar Reveals Plans for Three New Cultural Institutions
Qatar Museums chair Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani announced that the country plans to develop three new museums in Doha. While no financial road map has yet been outlined, a major architect is attached to each project.
Article date: Friday, March 25, 2022
Belgian Artist Jan Fabre to Face Three Years Imprisonment for Sexual Harassment
The Public Prosecution Service is requesting a sentence of 3 years imprisonment for famous Belgian visual artist and theatre maker, Jan Fabre who is facing allegations of sexual harassment, violence and one case of indecent assault.
Article date: Friday, March 25, 2022
Monuments Men Foundation Launches Deck of Playing Cards in Search of Missing Art Pieces from WWII
The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art (Foundation) has launched a deck of playing cards featuring the WWII MOST WANTED ART™ still missing since the end of World War II.
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.
