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Ford Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced the Disability Futures Fellows, the recipients of an 18-month initiative administered by United States Artists that aims to increase the visibility of disabled creative practitioners across disciplines and geography and elevate their voices individually and collectively.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Stéphane Aquin as Director. Mr. Aquin currently holds the position of Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., which is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is considered the United States' national museum of modern and contemporary art.

Marguerite, an Asian elephant, sometimes nicknamed Parkie, has just temporarily left Museum National d'Histoire to settle among the sculptures of the Musée d'Orsay.

Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been given the honour of Knight Bachelor conferred upon him in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.

Nika Oblak & Primoz Novak have been working collectively since 2003. In their art practice they examine contemporary media and capital driven society as they dissect its visual and linguistic structure.

Kunstinstituut Melly will be the new name of the institution formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. This name has been arrived at through an extensive Renaming Process, involving over 280 participants. It is a name that has been chosen based upon its capacity to maintain accountability, vulnerability, responsiveness, and to ensure that we continue to become a more welcoming and daring cultural institution into the future.

The Clore Duffield Foundation, chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield, today announced a rescue package of £2,551,371 to 66 cultural organisations across the UK to support their learning and community work during the pandemic.

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first publicly accessible art depot in the world designed by MVRDV, has finished construction. Located in Rotterdam’s Museumpark, the depot features a new type of experience for museum visitors: a sturdy engine room where the complete collection of 151,000 objects is made accessible to the public.

Het Noordbrabants Museum has once again expanded its ever-growing collection of works by Vincent van Gogh. The museum recently acquired an 1885 portrait of a woman from the Nuenen area via Christie’s London. The purchase was funded by the BankGiro Lottery, private individuals, and companies.

Culture, at the heart of our intimate construction and social cohesion, a marker of France’s international influence, has been severely affected by the health crisis. With €2 billion for Culture, the response is massive and global.

This October sees the return of Frieze Sculpture in Regent's Park and a hybrid programme of online and offline activity, reaching audiences worldwide via Frieze Viewing Room as well as celebrating the vibrant art scene in London.

The Ashmolean has uncovered a painting in its stores, bequeathed to the Museum in 1951, which can now be confirmed as having been painted in Rembrandt’s workshop in c. 1630. The tiny picture, Head of a Bearded Man, is a portrait study of an old man with a downcast gaze, typical of Rembrandt’s work at this time.

An inspirational insight into the spectacular art at the center of this annual celebration, BURNING MAN: ART ON FIRE follows the unpredictable journey of the artists who defy reason to bring their massive installations and sculptures to the punishing Nevada desert. Filmed just after Burning Man’s legendary founder suddenly died, the community of artists is challenged by impossible timing and blinding dust storms.

Following the explosion of 4 August and the damage it caused to museums, libraries, monuments and historic houses in central Beirut, the ALIPH Foundation Board decided to allocate an initial envelope of 5 million dollars to finance emergency measures to stabilize, protect, or rehabilitate the city’s cultural heritage.

On September 15, 2020 PARK3020 officially opens and presents works by Ukrainian sculptors: Nazar Bilyk, Anna Zvyagintseva, Oleksii Zolotariov, Anton Logov, Anna Naduda, Bohdan Tomashevskyi and others. In 2020-2022, the park will cooperate in a partnership with a key institution for the presentation of public art in the UK – Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Egypt on Thursday received two enormous royal statues that had been displayed as part of the exhibition “Sunken Cities: The Enchanting World of Egypt” in the US. The statues will be installed at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Franz Mon (born in 1926 in Frankfurt am Main) is one of the pioneers of experimental literature and art breaking new ground in the mid-twentieth century. His poetic work started in the wake of the spirit that pervaded all the arts in the 1950s and shattered the boundaries of genres.

The Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie have organised an exhibition of René Magritte’s "Renoir Period", which extended from 1943 until 1947. The first exhibition to show a still largely unknown chapter of Magritte’s work in its entirety, it compares Magritte’s works with those of Auguste Renoir, who inspired him.

Art and spirituality have much in common. Traditionally, artists are thought to have an exceptionally sensitive gift of perception. Even today, they address major philosophical, psychological or spiritual issues in their work. These works are all in the Berlinische Galerie’s collection and most of them are being displayed in the museum for the first time.

The Extraordinary General Meeting of MCH Group Ltd. on 3 August 2020 approved all the proposals of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors can thus proceed with the implementation of the package of measures submitted for the financial recovery and further strategic realignment of the company.