UK government places export bar on £71m Rembrandt portrait – The Art Newspaper
The UK government has placed an export bar on a Rembrandt painting valued at £71m, making it “the most expensive object ever to be…
Monumental Noguchi sculpture donated to the New Orleans Museum of Art – The Art Newspaper
Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Mississippi Fountain (also known as The Mississippi, 1961-62) will soon be installed at the Beaux…
Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin – The Art Newspaper
A new centre for culture and contemporary art launched this weekend in Durham, northeast England, with an exhibition…
US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries – The Art Newspaper
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has acquired around 190 works since March of this…
Dresden’s star Correggio altarpiece, newly restored, will anchor major exhibition – The Art Newspaper
Correggio’s Madonna of St Sebastian shares a distinction with Raphael’s Sistine Madonna: it is one of the standout High Renaissance paintings…
Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed artistic director of Cape Town’s Zeitz MoCAA – The Art Newspaper
Elvira Dyangani Ose, the former director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), has been appointed the artistic…
Valerie Hillings appointed inaugural director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi – The Art Newspaper
Valerie Hillings, the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) in the United States, has been…
Collector Bernardo Paz plans new museum in Brazil next-door to Inhotim – The Art Newspaper
The Brazilian art collector and former mining magnate Bernardo Paz is developing a new museum and botanical garden…
Lisbon’s Museu Calouste Gulbenkian returns to its mid-century modern roots following major renovation – The Art Newspaper
The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian reopened in Lisbon on Saturday (18 July) after an 18-month refurbishment. Named after the…
Minneapolis Institute of Art hires Kevin Tervala to lead curatorial – The Art Newspaper
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has hired Kevin Tervala as its chief of curatorial affairs and exhibitions.…
Legionella detected in cooling towers at the Metropolitan Museum, Cooper Hewitt and Jewish Museum – The Art Newspaper
Cooling towers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum…
Detroit Institute of Arts director finds missing Velázquez painting – The Art Newspaper
Paintings by Diego Velázquez are a rarity. Numbering around 120, with some 50 of those concentrated in the…