Outcry over Polish government’s changes to Second World War museum
The Art Newspaper - Five hundred Polish and foreign academics have signed an open letter criticising the administration of the Museum of the Second Wo...
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Erdogan replaces Ataturk’s cultural legacy with his own
The Art Newspaper - The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, unveiled plans for a new opera house and cultural complex on Taksim Square in central...
How the new US tax law affects the art world
The Art Newspaper - On 22 December, US President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a Republican victory that drew criticism fr...
UK’s first permanent Virtual Reality space in an arts institution to open in London
The Art Newspaper - This year saw Virtual Reality (VR) reach new heights and capabilities in the art world and now London is getting its first free an...
Here Are the 15 Biggest Art-World Controversies of the Year
ArtNet News - From Dana Schutz's notorious painting to divisive animal art at the Guggenheim, 2017 was chock full of debate, discussion, and protest. ...
9 of the World’s Weirdest Museums
Artsy - One might think that a museum devoted to hunting and nature housed in an 18th-century aristocratic residence on Paris’s Right Bank would be st...
MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers
MoMA - Interestingly, as the aura and familiarity of MoMA-anointed landmarks ebbs and flows, you may find yourself on your own, responding in less fil...
See the 10 Biggest Museum Acquisitions of 2017
Artnet News - This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $45...
2017 in culture: The best, the worst, and the surprising
DW - No one can accuse 2017 of being an uneventful year. In the light of global political scandals and humanitarian crises with no end in sight, cultu...
Beyond Leonardo: the artists who led the auctions in 2017
The Art Newspaper - After suffering from a dearth of top works in the preceding two years, owing to economic jitters sparked by geopolitical uncertai...