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Article date: Friday, April 29, 2022

Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect Selected to Lead AGO Global Contemporary Design Development

Following a rigorous selection process, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) today announces that it has contracted Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect to lead the design phase of AGO Global Contemporary, the museum’s proposed expansion project.

Article date: Thursday, April 28, 2022

Takashi Murakami Wins a Webby Special Achievement

World-renowned contemporary artist Takashi Murakami is being honored with a Webby Special Achievement Award for his lifelong career of creating experimental art, and for bringing his talents to the new frontier of NFt art.

Article date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022

KMSKA: First European Museum to Use Art Security Tokens to Enable Public Access to Masterpieces

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is the first museum in Europe to adopt an innovative funding method to expand its collection. From 27 April, people can buy a virtual share in a piece of fine art in an Art Security Tokens Offering. This allows the museum to strengthen its collection and gives everyone an opportunity to invest in art. The piece will be exhibited at the KMSKA after its grand reopening on 24 September 2022 so that it can be enjoyed by all.

Article date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Professor Deborah Swallow to Retire as Märit Rausing Director of The Courtauld After 18 Years

Professor Deborah Swallow has announced plans to retire from her post as Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after leading the internationally renowned institution for 18 years.

Article date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The Tampa Museum of Art has received a landmark $25 million donation from Dick Corbett as the lead donation to the Museum’s Centennial Capital Campaign for Renovation and Expansion, which began during its 100th anniversary celebration in 2020.

Article date: Monday, April 25, 2022

Germany Returns Four Illegally Trafficked Cultural Objects to Italy

The German Minister of State for Culture and Media, Claudia Roth, has handed over four illegally transferred cultural objects to the Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio in Berlin that were seized and retrieved in Germany

Article date: Monday, April 25, 2022

The Art of Dr. Gindi: Echoes to Truth and Transcendence

A first glance at the work of Dr. Gindi, you intuitively know that you are encountering an artist of not only technical skill and dexterity but also of reflective profundity, artistic vision and courageous insight into the human condition.

Article date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam to Receive TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund

The Europe Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has announced that the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is to be a recipient of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund,

Article date: Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Austrian Avant-Garde Artist Hermann Nitsch Passes Away at 83

Hermann Nitsch, an Austrian avant-garde artist known among other things for works in which he used blood and animal entrails, has died. He was 83.

Article date: Friday, April 15, 2022

Glasgow to Return Looted Artworks to India, Nigeria and Representatives of Massacred Lakota people in South Dakota, USA

Glasgow City Council has voted to return a number of cultural artefacts from its museum collections, including the repatriation of seven Indian antiquities, in a move which is the first of its kind from a UK museum.

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