Article date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Four Employees suspended for Pokemon Expo Misconduct at Van Gogh Museum
At least four employees at the Van Gogh Museum have been suspended after it was discovered that they reportedly stole Pokemon Cards during the popular exhibition.
Article date: Tuesday, January 23, 2024
New Sculpture celebrates the Legacy of Alan Turing
A new work by Sir Antony Gormley (Trinity 1968) has been installed at King’s College Cambridge. The sculpture, titled True, for Alan Turing, was commissioned by King's as a visible recognition of the life and achievements of Alan Turing (KC 1931).
Article date: Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Curator Announced for Liverpool Biennial 2025
Marie-Anne McQuay will curate the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial taking place 7 June – 14 September 2025
Article date: Monday, January 22, 2024
Minsuk Cho and His Firm Mass Studies selected to Design the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion
Mass Studies’ Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South on 5th June 2024 with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the 10th consecutive year.
Article date: Monday, January 22, 2024
Fire at National Art Museum in Abkhazia's Capital destroys Thousands of Works
According to the officials in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, located along the Black Sea in Georgia, a destructive fire broke out at the National Art Museum.
Article date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Manhattan D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of Two More Nazi-Looted Art Drawings
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., and Erin Keegan, Acting Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, New York, today announced the return of two more artworks to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime.
Article date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Flemish Taxpayer Acquires €3.75 Million Ensor Masterpiece
The Flemish taxpayer acquires "De vertroostende maagd" ("The Consoling Virgin") by James Ensor for 3.75 million euros.
Article date: Friday, January 19, 2024
NYC Museum and Culture Leaders Implore Mayor Adams to Restore Arts Funding
Leaders of New York City’s cultural institutions from across the five boroughs released today a public letter to Mayor Adams strongly urging the City to invest – not cut – funding for culture.
Article date: Friday, January 19, 2024
Winston Churchill's False Teeth from World War Two go on Sale
False teeth worn by former prime minister Winston Churchill are to be sold at auction.
Article date: Friday, January 19, 2024
The 18th Istanbul Biennial has been Postponed
The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has been working since March 2023 with some 58 artists from around the world to realise the 18th Istanbul Biennial.
Article date: Thursday, January 18, 2024
Museum Watchdog Group CIMAM Decries Silencing of Pro-Palestine Voices
The Museum Watch committee is following with concern the dreadful situation in Gaza and its repercussions in the worlds of art and culture—more specifically, its consequences for artists and curators who express their support for the Palestinian people.
Article date: Thursday, January 18, 2024
Csaba Daróczi has been awarded the Title Close-up Photographer of the Year
Hungarian photographer Csaba Daróczi has been awarded the title Close-up Photographer of the Year 5, supported by Affinity Photo 2, with his striking picture of a Eurasian nuthatch in flight taken from inside a hollowed-out tree stump.
Article date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Basel Art Museum Rejects Restitution Claim for Henri Rousseau Painting
Basel's Kunstmuseum has rejected a request to return a painting by Henri Rousseau acquired in 1940 and considered to be sold under duress. Talks are now underway for "fair and equitable" compensation.
Article date: Tuesday, January 16, 2024
The Louvre Museum increases its Entrance Fees from 17 to 22 Euros
The Louvre Museumexplains its decision by an increase in energy costs. Entering the Louvre now costs 22 euros at full price since Monday morning
Article date: Tuesday, January 16, 2024
German Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia
Under the title Thresholds, the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2024 narrates history and the future from various artistic positions. Thresholds stands for the present as a place where no one can stay and that only exists because one thing has occurred and another still awaits.
Article date: Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Getty Exhibits Newly Restored Paintings of Adam and Eve
Getty and the Norton Simon Museum have announced the completion of a complex, multi-year conservation treatment of the nearly life-size 16th-century wood panel paintings Adam and Eve by leading German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Article date: Monday, January 15, 2024
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Will Close Its College in 2025
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), founded in 1805 by the artists Charles Willson Peale and William Rush as the first art school in the United States, is closing its college at the end of the next academic year. The institution’s museum will remain open.
Article date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Rare Medieval Wall Paintings found at Cambridge University by Builders
Rare medieval wall paintings have been uncovered in a loft space during restoration of fifteenth-century First Court.
Article date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Famous Downing Street Corridor showcases Collection of Newcastle Artworks
Artworks from the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle chosen to adorn the corridors of Number 10 Downing Street.
Article date: Friday, January 12, 2024
Controversial Politician Rachida Dati Appointed France’s New Culture Minister
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took France’s political and media spheres by surprise on Thursday as he named controversial politician Rachida Dati as his culture minister.
