Tag: Museum

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2026 Artists in Residence, First Cohort in New Building

    The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced the participants for its 2026 Artist-in-Residence program. They are Derriann Pharr,Simonette Quamina, andTaylor Simmons. The cohort will be the first to be in residence in the museum’s new building, which opened last fall. For the building’s inauguration, the Studio Museum mounted an exhibition titled “From the Studio: Fifty-Eight read more

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  • Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey Museum Is Officially Canceled After Jersey City Mayor Pulls Support

    A Centre Pompidou satellite museum that was expected to open in Jersey City is officially not happening anymore, the city’s Mayor said on Wednesday. On Thursday, a Centre Pompidou spokesperson confirmed that the museum was no longer pursuing the project. The museum, officially known as the Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, would have been the read more

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  • Amy Sherald’s Show Sets Visitor Record at Baltimore Museum of Art

    News The museum became a venue for “American Sublime” after Sherald withdrew her exhibition from the Smithsonian, citing censorship concerns. Amy Sherald, “Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons)” (2024) (courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth) The traveling exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime has set a new attendance record at the Baltimore Museum of read more

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  • Queens Museum Promotes Debra Wimpfheimer to Executive Director

    The Queens Museum has named Debra Wimpfheimer as its next executive director. She replaces Sally Tallant, who departed last month ahead of taking on the directorship of the Hayward Gallery in London. Wimpfheimer, a Queens native, has worked for the museum for more than two decades. She first joined as the institution’s director of external read more

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