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Art in the Digital Age

Met Museum's AR App Brings Artworks to Roblox

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon have unveiled Replica, a pioneering application that merges art's physical and digital realms. This innovative tool allows museum visitors to scan artwork...

Inflation Hits Culture

NYC Museums Increase Admission Fees

The global economy is currently experiencing a period of inflation, with prices rising across various sectors. This trend is not only affecting everyday consumer goods but also extends to the cultu...

Leadership Shift at Vienna's Top Museum

Jonathan Fine to Take the Helm

Jonathan Fine has been announced as the new Director-General of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) Vienna, effective from January 1, 2025. The current Director of the Weltmuseum, also part of the K...

From Protest to Progress

British Museum Parts Ways with BP Sponsor

The British Museum and BP, the multinational oil and gas corporation, will be ending their sponsorship agreement after 27 years. The decision comes after sustained pressure from activist groups who...

Centre Pompidou Renovation

Five-Year Closure Planned

The Centre Pompidou in Paris, known for its modern and contemporary art collections, will undergo a major renovation project and be closed for five years from 2025 to 2030. The ambitious expansion ...

San Francisco Art Institute Files for Bankruptcy

$65m Worth of Assets at Risk as San Francisco Art Institute Files for Bankruptcy

The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) has filed for bankruptcy due to mounting financial troubles. This may lead to the liquidation of over $65m worth of assets, including an archive featuring art...

Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria

No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán

The Whitney Museum's landmark exhibition "No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria" showcases the resilience of Puerto Rican artists in the aftermath of the de...

$160 Million Renovation and Expansion Approved for Fifth Avenue Mansion

The Frick Collection Returns Home

The Frick Collection will be returning to its historic Fifth Avenue mansion in 2024 after vacating its Brutalist temporary home on Madison Avenue. The institution has revealed details of its return...

Dallas Art Fair Foundation's Annual Acquisition Fund Makes it Possible

DMA Acquires 12 New Works for Permanent Collection

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) recently acquired 12 new works for its permanent collection at no cost, thanks to the Dallas Art Fair Foundation's annual acquisition fund. This year, the museum had...

A Dialogue Between Old Masters and Contemporary Art

Baselitz's Bold Nudes on Display in Vienna

Georg Baselitz, the controversial German artist, has a new exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, titled "Naked Masters." The exhibition marks Baselitz's 85th birthday and is the lar...

Private Tour

Rijksmuseum's Vermeer Exhibition Impresses French President Macron

The Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is undoubtedly one of the standout cultural events of the year. Featuring 28 paintings by the Dutch Old Master, including some of his most fam...

The Cost of Vandalism

Italy Debates Tougher Penalties for Those Who Damage Cultural Heritage

In Italy, the effects of climate protests on cultural heritage are being debated. In recent months, there have been repeated acts of vandalism on monuments and cultural sites during demonstrations ...

The Paris Administrative Court has decided

Four masterpieces go back to heirs

Ambroise Vollard is back at the center of the art world these days. More precisely: his heirs. Because they have now prevailed over the Musée d'Orsay, the famous Paris museum must return four maste...

Rush at the Rijksmuseum

Understatement as a new way to stage a blockbuster

It's crazy: there's an extensive Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam right now at the famous Rijksmuseum, one that's so popular it's already sold out. One almost gets the impression: Amsterdam's senior...

Assault in the Museum

Action Artist Overpasted Painting

A museum has something of a sacred place about it, and the works of art on display inside resemble relics. Looking at them is allowed, touching them is usually strictly forbidden. To transgress thi...

Now Department Head for Contemporary Art

The BMA Promotes Jessica Bell Brown

Personnel news are now available from the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). Jessica Bell Brown, who joined the BMA in November 2019 as associate curator for contemporary art, is being given more respo...

Money for the Maxxi

The Italian Government in a Spending Spree

Are golden times dawning again? Time and again, the Maxxi in Rome has been threatened with closure - due to tight finances. Designed by Zaha Hadid in 2010, the building was the first in the country...

Trouble at the Tate

Oligarchs Targeted

Sanctions have been announced against Russia by the United States, Great Britain and the European Union after Putin invaded Ukraine. But until now, the question has been whether it is possible to p...

Back in the family

Turbulent Times for Corinth's Flower Still Life

Once again, looted art finds its way back to its original owners. Since 1951, Corinth's Still Life of Flowers, painted in 1913, had been in the possession of the Belgian Museum Association, which i...

Opening and Dilemma

China Wants to Make a Mark With M+

It is a project of superlatives that has now reached its conclusion in Hong Kong. But it can also be described as the starting point of a new era. With the new M+ museum, which opened its doors in ...

Successor Found

ICA Appoints Bengi Ünsal as New Director

In August 2021, Stefan Kalmár had left the ICA, for which he had worked for five years. After a somewhat lengthy search, the ICA has now found someone who will guide the ICA's fortunes as director ...