Tag: Museum

  • Poland’s Jewish Museum Director Reinstated After Election

    Seven years after being ousted by the nationalist government, Dariusz Stola will return as director of Poland’s premier Jewish museum, reflecting a broader cultural renaissance in the country. Sola led the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw from its founding in 2014 to steady acclaim, until the newly ascendant right-wing nationalist read more

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  • 350-Year-Old Vrindavani Vastra Returns to India

    The Vrindavani Vastra, a 350-year-old tapestry woven in the foothills of the Himalayas and depicting the life of the god Krishna, will make a six-month homecoming, as part of a loan struck between the British Museum and the state government of Assam in northeastern India. The London institution agreed to return the tapestry in 2027 read more

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  • SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture

    Once dubbed “one of the weirdest, wildest, places you can visit” by SFGate, the Bunny Museum in Altadena, California, burned to the ground in 2025’s Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Founded by Candace Frazee and her husband Steve Lubanski and dedicated to all things bunny, the beloved SoCal institution had been open to the public since read more

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  • High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared

    News An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta (photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr) The chief operating officer at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has resigned after read more

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    High Museum COO Resigns After 0K Disappeared

  • Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years

    The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the community Thursday morning. In December, the school laid off 114 out of 1,493 read more

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  • Ukraine Adopts New Resolution on Evacuating Museum Objects From Conflict Zones

    The Ukrainian government has passed a resolution aimed at expediting the evacuation of more than three million cultural objects from frontline regions as Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches its fourth anniversary. The war has upended civilian life in Ukraine and resulted in the damage, destruction, or disappearance of cultural sites and museum property, much of it read more

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  • High Museum COO Resigns After Alleged $600,000 Misappropriation, Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors

    The chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has resigned after an internal investigation found that approximately $600,000 was allegedly misappropriated over several years and the matter was referred to federal prosecutors, according to theAtlanta Journal-Constitution. Brady Lum, who had served as COO since 2019, tendered his resignation on Dec. 9 amid the read more

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  • New Leader Picked for Crisis-Stricken Louvre Museum

    News Christophe Leribault, who heads the Palace of Versailles, succeeds Laurence des Cars within one day of her resignation. New Louvre leader Christophe Leribault in 2024 (photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images) A new director has been appointed at the Louvre Museum within one day of Laurence des Cars’ resignation on February 24. French read more

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  • Christophe Leribault Tapped to Lead Louvre Museum One Day After Laurence Des Cars’s Resignation

    One day after Laurence des Cars resigned from her position as president of the Louvre Museum, President Emmanuel Macron appointed Christophe Leribault, the director of the Palace of Versailles, to take her place. The decision, a government spokesperson told Le Parisien, was announced by Macron at the Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday. Leribault, 63, read more

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    Christophe Leribault Tapped to Lead Louvre Museum One Day After Laurence Des Cars’s Resignation

  • Georg Kolbe Museum to Restitute Nazi-Looted Sculpture to Heirs of Holocaust Victim

    A landmark sculpture by renowned German artist Georg Kolbe will be removed from public display in Berlin and returned to the heirs of the Jewish family who lost it under Nazi persecution. The 1922 work, Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (Dancers’ Fountain), stood for nearly five decades in the garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum and had become one read more

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  • Iris Cantor, Philanthropist Who Transformed the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 95

    Iris Cantor, a collector and philanthropist who provided the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other US art institutions with millions of dollars worth of support, died on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 95, according to a release from her foundation, which did not state a cause. Cantor was a transformative read more

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  • New Museum to Open in Portugal Around Collection of José Teixeira

    A new museum is slated to open in Portugal in April around the contemporary art collection of José Teixeira, the chairman of dstgroup, a civil construction and public-works engineering company. The institution in Braga, about an hour by car or train from Porto in the northwest of Portugal, will showcase a collection of 1,500 artworks read more

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  • The Victoria & Albert Museum Acquires First YouTube Video Ever

    The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, as well as an early watch page of the video-sharing platform, for its collection. The video, “Me at the zoo,” was first uploaded to the site on April 23, 2005. YouTube was officially founded in February 2005 by former read more

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  • The Museum at FIT Presents “Art X Fashion”

    Announcement This exhibition explores the entangled and shifting relationship between fine art and fashion, tracing parallel aesthetics from 18th-century Rococo to postmodernism. Paul Poiret, silk brocade evening coat with hat by Madeleine Panizon for Paul Poiret (c. 1925) (all photos by Eileen Costa, courtesy the Museum at FIT) The Museum at FIT (MFIT) presents Art read more

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  • Did the British Museum Remove Palestine From Its Displays?

    News The institution acknowledged altering some texts to refer to Canaan, an ancient name for the region, but said the word “Palestine” still appears elsewhere. Pro-Palestine activists and climate advocates rally at the British Museum on June 1, 2024. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images) The British Museum acknowledged that it had updated read more

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    Did the British Museum Remove Palestine From Its Displays?

  • British Museum Contests Report on Removal of ‘Palestinian’ from Some Wall Texts

    The British Museum contested a Telegraph report from this weekend, saying that it had not entirely stripped the word “Palestinian” from its wall texts in response to pressure from a pro-Israel group. The Telegraph report stated that UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) had written to British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan, claiming that using the word read more

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  • British Museum Removed the Word ‘Palestinian’ from Some Displays Amid Pressure from Pro-Israel Group

    The British Museum in London stripped the word “Palestinian” from some of its displays about the Middle East amid pressure from a prominent pro-Israel group. The Telegraph reported this weekend that UK Lawyers for Israel had written a letter to Nicholas Cullinan, the museum’s director, seeking the removal of that word, specifically in texts that read more

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  • Wisconsin Museum Treasurer Admits to Stealing $70,000 from Institution

    The former treasurer of the Hearthstone Historic House Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin—touted as “the only building still standing from the dawn of electricity” on its website—admitted to stealing $70,000 from the institution. According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, Steven Jahnke confessed to embezzlement and now faces one count of theft in a business setting. read more

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    Wisconsin Museum Treasurer Admits to Stealing ,000 from Institution

  • A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access

    A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly colonized by the European country. The Congolese government and KoBold Metals, a mining and artificial intelligence company backed by billionaires read more

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    A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access

  • Joe Frazier Statue Will Officially Replace Beloved Rocky at Bottom of Philadelphia Museum Steps

    With a beloved statue of Rocky Balboa being moved from the bottom of the Philadelphia Museum of Art‘s steps to its top, the Philadelphia Art Commission has officially selected a replacement artwork: a monument to Joe Frazier, an actual Philadelphian boxer (unlike Rocky, who is fictional). The Frazier statue is currently exhibited outside the Sports read more

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    Joe Frazier Statue Will Officially Replace Beloved Rocky at Bottom of Philadelphia Museum Steps