Article date: Monday, March 11, 2024
Boijmans van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam bought a Painting by Vincent van Gogh
The museum said it had acquired the work, Still Life with Potatoes, which dates from 1887, for an undisclosed sum to ensure it stayed in the Netherlands. It was previously on long-term loan from a private collection.
Article date: Sunday, March 10, 2024
Archaeologists Uncover Upper Part of the Colossal Statue of Ramses II
The joint Egyptian-American Archaeological Mission unearthed the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramses II (Ramesses), the lower part of which was found in 1930, during excavations at Hermopolis Magna in Egypt’s Minya Governorate.
Article date: Sunday, March 10, 2024
Artwork worth over € 1 million stolen in Italy
Some 49 gold works by 20th century Italian abstract sculptor Umberto Mastroianni on show at the Vittoriale at Lake Garda were stolen a day before the exhibit was due to close, in a one-million-euro heist.
Article date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Pro Palestine Protesters destroy Painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College
Pro Palestine Activists ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge of Lord Arthur James Balfour – the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.
Article date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Remembering Lucas Samaras: An Artist of Unconventional Vision
Working in the digital realm long before it was associated with fine art, Samaras pioneered radical new modes of image making throughout his storied career, pushing and redefining the boundaries of portraiture and self-portraiture over the course of seven decades.
Article date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Spanish Police uncover Workshop producing Fake Banksy Artworks
Police in the Catalonia region, Spain, have dismantled a criminal ring that produced counterfeit Banksy prints, uncovering the operation through irregularities in Barcelona's art market.
Article date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
Leading Icelandic Conceptual Artist Hreinn Fridfinnsson dies at 81
Hreinn Friðfinnsson, one of Iceland’s most important artists, has died at the age of 81. Reykjavík gallery i8, which has represented the artist since 1995, confirmed the news.
Article date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
The Russian Federation plans to open a "City Liberation Museum" in Mariupol
The Russian Federation plans to open a so-called liberation museum in the destroyed center of occupied Mariupol.
Article date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
King Willem-Alexander will open the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam
His Majesty the King will open the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, after giving a speech at a gathering in the nearby Portuguese Synagogue.
Article date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
Malta unveiling its First-Ever Biennale in Less than a Week
The anticipation is reaching a crescendo as Malta gears up to host its first-ever biennale, a groundbreaking celebration of contemporary art set to captivate
audiences from March 13th to May 31st.
Article date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
The Venus of Rags rises Again in Piazza Municipio in Naples, Italy
A symbol of resistance, hope and rebirth. This is the powerful message conveyed by the new Venus of Rags, the famous work by Michelangelo Pistoletto reinstalled and inaugurated in Piazza Municipio in Naples.
Article date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Spectacular Kirchner Rediscovery After More Than 100 Years!
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's life and work have been subject to extensive research. And now this sensation: Ketterer Kunst’s Evening Sale on the occasion of the company’s 70th anniversary on June 7 features a painting that could not be located for decades.
Article date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Kazerne Dossin awarded the European Culture Award for the exhibition Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe
Kulturforum Europa announced that it has awarded the European Culture Award to the creators of the temporary exhibition ‘Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe’.
Article date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Inauguration of the Gerhard Richter Birkenau Exhibition Pavilion in Oświęcim
In February, a solemn inauguration of the Gerhard Richter BIRKENAU exhibition pavilion took place at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim.
Article date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Riken Yamamoto Receives the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, as the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
Article date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Two Alarming Cases of Bad Practices by the Administration in Regional Museums in Spain
CIMAM's Museum Watch is very concerned with recent developments in Spain regarding two important regional contemporary art museums and their professionals.
Article date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Queen Victoria Bust at Kelvingrove Museum, Scotland, undamaged After Protest
Protesters defaced the marble bust with food and spray paint, but a spokesperson for the museum said no permanent damage has been caused.
Article date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Report on Implementation of Art Restitution over past 25 Years find Significant Progress but Many Countries still Lagging
At an event jointly convened by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the U.S. State Department, a groundbreaking global report on art and cultural property restitution was unveiled by WJRO and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).
Article date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Fresco of Phrixus and Helle discovered at Pompeii
Archaeologists have uncovered another breathtaking treasure at the site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, a fresco of the Greek mythological figures Phrixus and Helle at a domus near to the House of Leda and the Swan.
Article date: Monday, March 4, 2024
Thousands Sign Petition for Flaco Statue in Central Park
Flaco was magic. At once an immigrant and a native, he seized his opportunity to make New York City his own. He meant so much to so many, who gathered in droves over the past year to watch him be his best Eurasian Eagle-Owl self. He was and remains a testament to the virtues of resilience and self reinvention.
