To date, stories of cultural restitution have primarily been a story about Western institutions, told from a Western perspective. The protagonists are benevolent European and North American organizations, whose virtue …
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Art Industry News is a daily summary of the most important developments in the art world and the art market. Here’s what you need to know this Wednesday, May 31. …
Over the past decade, museums around the world, but especially in Europe and North America, have taken more or less active steps to correct blind spots and systemic flaws in …
A lavish mansion by Frank Lloyd Wright – with a circular design echoing his Guggenheim Museum – has gone on the market for $8million
A house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the town of New Canaan in Fairfield County Connecticut just went on sale for $8 million. Called Tirranna, the 7,000 square feet …
Visitors continue to pack their bags for the Vermeer blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum which runs until June 4 (get a ticket if you can – good luck). A correspondent of …
How progressive artists in Berlin, Munich and Vienna broke with the past and paved the way for modernism
At the beginning of the 1890s, Munich could boast of being the artistic capital of Central Europe. Home to a group of so-called “prince painters,” known for their grand history …
Picasso exhibition co-curated by comedian Hannah Gadsby, who she confessed to ‘hating’, will delve into the complexities of the artist’s legacy
Hannah Gadsby doesn’t hurt when it comes to Pablo Picasso. The Aussie comedian’s 2018 Netflix comedy special Nanette weaves a searing critique of Picasso’s relationship with his teenage muse Marie-Thérèse …
In March this year we went to Finsbury Park in London to Phyllida Barlow’s to interview her for the A brush with… podcast. Tragically, Phyllida died a few days later. …
Conservators in Istanbul are racing to save dozens of at-risk heritage sites in the wake of the deadliest earthquake in Turkey’s modern history, bracing for the likelihood of an even …
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s ambitious east London warehouse is finally complete
The new open-access storage building at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in east London has just been completed and houses over 250,000 objects. In a few days, the process …