Museum News – Page 2

Here are the museums that have closed (so far) due to coronavirus

March 16, 2020

The Art Newspaper- Museums and heritage sites across Italy, the country most affected by the virus after China, will be closed until at least 3 April following an emergency decree from the Italian government on...

The National Museum in Jakarta on the 2nd November 2019 in Java in Indonesia. (photo by Sam Mellish / In Pictures via Getty Images)

For the First Time in Its History, the Netherlands Is Returning an Enormous Trove of Artifacts to Its Former Colonial Territory of Indonesia

Artery

January 14, 2020

Museum News, Trending

artnet news - The objects, some of which date back to 5000 B.C., will go on view at the National Museum of Indonesia this June. - read more...

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947). "Nu dans le bain". Huile sur toile, 1936. Paris, musée d'Art moderne.

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public

Artery

January 14, 2020

Museum News, museum watch, Trending

Hyperallergic - aris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collect...

Can MoMA’s Expansion Ever Really Be Finished?

Artery

October 16, 2019

Museum News, Museums, Trending

artnet news - The grand, gleaming architectural and curatorial complex that is the new Museum of Modern Art is the work of hundreds of specialists, patrons, designers, and other visionaries. But it is above al...

First Look at MoMA’s $450m expansion

Artery

October 10, 2019

Art and Culture, Museum News, museum watch, Trending

The Art Newspaper - It is striking how museum expansions are often experienced as a shock to the psyche—a sense that a familiar narrative has been jettisoned in favour of a creative leap off a cliff. But as the...

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Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial is a “call to action” against climate change

Artery

May 21, 2019

Museum News, Trending

dezeen - New York's Cooper Hewitt is trying to tackle the global challenge of climate change with its sixth design triennial, Nature. Director Caroline Baumann picks out five of the most forward-thinking design...

Hesselholdt & Mejlvang’s flag series Native, Exotic, Normal / State of Emergency (2017) was in the group show Cool, Calm and Collected at Aros Aarhus Art Museum

Artist duo Hesselholdt & Mejlvang says Danish museum did not pay them

Artery

December 27, 2018

Art and the Law, Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - One of Denmark’s most prominent museums, Aros Aarhus Art Museum in the country’s second city, has drawn criticism for not paying exhibiting artists. Responding to a radio interview in Novemb...

Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation

Artery

August 22, 2018

Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - A visitor to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Serralves museum in Porto was hospitalised this week after falling inside one of the British artist’s installations, which features a 2.5-metr...

Italy scraps free Sundays at cultural sites like Pompeii and the Colosseum

Artery

August 22, 2018

Art and Society, Museum News, Museums

The Art Newspaper - The new culture minister of Italy’s populist coalition government, Alberto Bonisoli, has sparked mixed reactions with the announcement that a monthly free-entry initiative at the country’s m...

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Tate blockbuster to prove Pierre Bonnard was a great Modern painter

Artery

July 24, 2018

Art History, Museum News, Trending

The Art Newspaper - Bonnard’s place in Modern art has long been debated. Picasso delivered a particularly damning verdict on him. “That’s not painting, what he does,” he said, accusing him of producing “a potp...