A routine check into an antiquity’s history has uncovered its stolen past, prompting a swift return to a French museum by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The MFA delivered the bronze statuette, which had been in its collection since 1904, to…
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Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum is due to fully reopen on Sunday 23 September after eight years’ of work. The original 1895 building of the Modern and contemporary art museum has been refurbished and an extension added that overlooks the city’s…
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The Tate in London is buying a work based on the massacre of Palestinian refugees,sheltering in camps near Beirut in 1982, which has been called the “modern Guernica”.
Sabra and Shatila Massacre, 1982-83, is a vast drawing by the Iraqi…
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The Hammer Museum has announced that the Botswana-born, Los Angeles-based artist Meleko Mokgosi is the winner of its new Mohn Award, a $ 100,000 prize given over two years that rivals the Turner Prize in the UK. The award is funded by the local…
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After all the Sturm und Drang surrounding the Barnes Foundation’s relocation to downtown Philadelphia, what has emerged? What has been lost and what has been gained?
The institutional narrative of the Barnes has been overshadowed by the tortured…
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After more than a year’s delay, some of the works of art loaned by more than 100 artists to the third World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures (Fesman) have been returned to their owners. However, another group of art is still blocked in Senegal…
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The ghost of the American icon Marilyn Monroe haunts a new video by the artist Philippe Parreno, which is due to be shown at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel this summer (10 June-30 September). In the work, we see the world through Monroe’s eyes as…
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Going up on Houston Street Thursday afternoon, just down the road from The Art Newspaper’s New York offices, is a giant mural promoting the Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition at the Jewish Museum, “The World Stage: Israel” (9 March-29…
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The Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, who has a major retrospective at Tate Modern in London (until 5 June), is creating a new work for the first Kiev Biennale (24 May-31 July). Kusama is one of 100 contemporary artists to take part in the biennial,…
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Arts Victoria is expected to lodge a permit application with Heritage Victoria shortly so that it can begin conservation work on Keith Haring’s last surviving large-scale mural in Australia. The proposed move has prompted protest from art world…
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