Around 30 activists from the group “United for Contemporary Art” have been occupying the entrance hall of Budapest’s Ludwig Museum in the Palace of the Arts since last week. The protest, which is still ongoing, is directed at the “lack of…
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Jack Persekian, the director of the new Palestinian Museum scheduled to open in Birzeit late next year, strikes a note of caution when discussing the political significance of the planned institution. “The Palestinian Museum is a political symbol…
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The artist Chris Burden is to be the subject of a major survey at New York’s New Museum in October. The show will include four new works including a sculpture of a 1974 Porsche transfixed by a 365lb meteorite.
Occupying all five floors of the…
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The Norwegian national government has indicated that it will help fund Oslo’s Munch Museum, as long as the city’s politicians can resolve their differences and the collection moves to a new building. The museum dedicated to Norway’s most famous…
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A Jewish heaven—Paradisus Iudaeorum—is how a 17th-century Vatican diplomat once described Poland. During the Holocaust, it became hell on earth. Now, the country’s fraught relationship with Jewish culture will be explored by Warsaw’s Museum…
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The City of Riverside is seeking a dynamic and innovative professional to serve as Museum and Cultural Affairs Director and to lead the City’s expanding Arts and Culture program. The position is an integral member of the executive management team…
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An Iranian-born entrepreneur hopes to build a museum of contemporary art in the heart of Dubai. Ramin Salsali has announced ambitious plans to launch the Dubai Museum of Contemporary Art (DMOCA) in the downtown Burj Khalifa district.
The first…
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The world’s oldest telecommunications company, British Telecom (BT), has created an online archive of nearly 500,000 photographs, documents and letters gathered since 1846. The year-long project, New Connections, is due to be completed by July and…
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Russia might finally get a major museum to honor the millions who died in the Soviet-era network of labour camps known as the Gulag. “A big museum will open in Moscow next year on the basis of the small Gulag museum,” said Sergei Karaganov, an…
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The director of the Nationalgalerie, State Museums of Berlin says that choosing the high-profile Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to exhibit in the German pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale (1 June-24 November) threatens to undermine the…
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