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Article date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Hella Jongerius – Breathing Colour

National museum of Sweden presents Hella Jongerius’s exhibition Breathing Colour which is a visual installation that features the results of her longstanding research into colour, shape, light and materials.

Article date: Monday, January 13, 2020

Humanising the Art Museum: Interview with Sandro Debono

"The role of the museum today should be more about the ambition of firmly displacing the human towards the centre of a comprehensive, one-weave experience. The stories told, the experiences and the display presented, as well as the services provided should be weaved and intertwined into one albeit each would contribute distinctively to one and the same vision. This also concerns the simplest of actions, needs and requirements of a cultural space designated to be acknowledged as a museum".

Article date: Sunday, January 12, 2020

Cecilia Alemani Named Artistic Director of the La Biennale di Venezia Visual Arts Department

The Venice Biennale said Friday that it has appointed Cecilia Alemani as the new Director of its Visual Arts Department, making her the first woman to hold the job. As a result the Italian curator, who comes from Milan and is based in New York, has the task of planning and curating the upcoming 59th International Art Exhibition.

Article date: Thursday, January 9, 2020

Opening of the Berlin-Based “Help Desk” for Enquiries about Cultural Assets Seized in the National Socialist Era

Since the beginning of January there is a central point of contact in Berlin for enquiries from those whose cultural assets were seized as a result of persecution under the National Socialist regime, and their descendants. This “Help Desk” is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Article date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Meeting of Director-General and Iran’s Ambassador to UNESCO

The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on Monday received Ahmad Jalali, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and discussed tensions in the Middle East with particular regard to heritage and culture. The Director-General recalled the provisions of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, two legal instruments that have been ratified by both the United States and Iran.

Article date: Tuesday, January 7, 2020

John Baldessari, the Godfather of Conceptual Art, Dead at 88

Artist John Baldessari, whose irreverent, multimedia work and lengthy career as a teacher at CalArts and UCLA inspired an entire generation of artists, died Thursday at the age of 88 at his home in Venice, California. According to the New York Times, his studio manager and foundation chairwoman, Virginia Gatelein, confirmed his death on Sunday. At times a sculptor, a painter, photographer and videographer, Baldessari’s surrealist mixed-media body of work helped shape the modern Los Angeles art scene and, eventually, the world’s.

Article date: Friday, January 3, 2020

Pop on Paper - From Warhol to Lichtenstein

Berlin’s Kupferstichkabinett is home to an outstanding collection of prints from the 1960s – with a particular focus on works of Pop Art. This exhibition will shine a spotlight on the various facets of Pop Art (with a focus on the US), for which silk-screen printing was the most important medium of international dissemination. This medium allowed artists to use motifs from advertising, newspapers or comic strips to translate the colourful world of consumer culture into vibrant, often provocative images.

Article date: Friday, January 3, 2020

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is Awarded the Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo announced today that Lawrence Abu Hamdan is the third recipient of the the Future Fields Commission—an ongoing series of commissions offered jointly by the two institutions to support the creation, production, and acquisition of new work by international artists working to expand the fields of video, film, performance, and sound.

Article date: Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Jeff Koons is Convicted of Counterfeiting Again

Subscribed to controversy, Jeff Koons is also beginning to be condemned for counterfeiting. In a judgment consulted on Saturday December 21 by AFP, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed a 2017 judgment ordering the company Jeff Koons LLC and the Center Pompidou, where the disputed work was to be exhibited, to pay 20,000 together € of damages to the beneficiaries of the French photographer Jean-François Bauret, for moral and patrimonial damage, for having infringed one of his photographs.

Article date: Friday, December 20, 2019

A Christmas Present for the UK – Orazio Saved

'The Finding of Moses' had been on generous long-term loan to the National Gallery from a private collection for almost twenty years – so long that many people assumed it already formed part of the national collection. It has been the subject of talks, exhibitions, publications and educational activities, and is a focal point of the Italian Baroque gallery where it is displayed alongside masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio and Guido Reni.

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