Tuesday evening (April 25), as Brooklyn Museum trustees, members and other well-wishers arrived for the institution’s annual meeting Brooklyn Artists Ball fundraiser, they were greeted by a picket line formed …
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The Brooklyn Museum was buzzing last night with the annual Brooklyn Artists Ball fundraising event in honor of Carrie Mae Weems. At 6 p.m., staff members dressed in cocktail attire …
France is finally making public its long-awaited policy on the dossier responsible for the restitution of cultural property. The government will release tomorrow an 85-page report on the subject by …
Vivan Sundaram and Geeta Kapur in their New Delhi home, 2022. Photo: Rattanamol Singh Johal. ON A CRISPY NIGHT IN NEW DELHI Last December, I visited the brutalist bungalow of …
Nigeria transfers ownership of Benin bronzes to royal ruler, confusing European museums’ plans to return artefacts
The Benin Bronzes restitution saga took a new turn after the Nigerian government officially recognized the Oba of Benin (Oba Ewuare II) as the owner and custodian of the objects …
The Met’s Costume Institute pays tribute to the enigmatic designer Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was perhaps his greatest creation. Born in Hamburg in 1933, he made his way to Paris in the 1950s to embark on an unprecedented career in …
Martin Parr, who is now recovering from a cancer diagnosis in 2021, will be celebrated as Photo London’s Master of Photography when the UK’s largest photography fair returns to London’s …
What are you worth? New report reveals salaries across the art world, from £22,500 for gallery assistants to over £250,000 for top sales managers
Salaries in the art industry are a sadly opaque subject. Indeed, there are still those who remember that wealthy families sometimes used to pay the big auction houses to hire …
A large mosaic depicting Karl Marx and celebrating the founding of East Germany and “working class unity” has been officially handed over to the city of Halle by the private …
Unexpected archaeological finds at a 1,500-year-old Buddhist site near Kabul underscore missed opportunities to invest in Afghanistan’s historic sites due to the country’s isolation and lack of funding. Conservation work …