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40Exhibitionsstill no sign of guidelines on contentious UK heritage
More than two years after the Conservative government announced a strategy to “retain and explain” controversial monuments and historic statues, the UK...
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35BooksBob Ross’s canvas from the first The Joy of Painting episode hits the market for $9.85m
The work that American artist Bob Ross completed on air during the first episode of his hit television programme The Joy of...
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37PodcastsWhy do US museum workers want to quit?
Two-thirds of museum workers are thinking about leaving their jobs, if not the field altogether, according to a survey out this month....
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37Columnsthe museum director recalls the emotional moment
Andreas Blühm, the director of the Groninger Museum, was having lunch in an Amsterdam café on Monday when the call came through....
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37ArtVenice not added to Unesco endangered list
On 14 September, the Unesco World Heritage Committee, the governing body of the World Heritage Convention, meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, voted...
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35Museums & heritageFrance suspends cultural cooperation with three West African countries
The French government has stunned the cultural world with a decision to halt all cooperation with artists and performers from Mali, Niger...
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50ExhibitionsOne year on from Mahsa Amini’s death, protest art marks the streets
Public art works by four artists go on show in Edinburgh, Paris and Dublin as part of a campaign marking the death...
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46BooksGerman culture minister promises new powers for Nazi-looted art panel
German culture minister Claudia Roth said the government and states plan to increase the powers of the national advisory commission on Nazi-looted...
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31PodcastsInternational galleries and collectors finally returning to Brazil’s ArtRio fair
ArtRio opened its 13th edition in Rio de Janeiro this week, with a noticeable uptick in participation from international galleries at its...
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33ColumnsFernando Botero, the Colombian artist beloved for his rotund figures, has died, aged 91
Fernando Botero, the Colombian painter and sculptor known for his highly stylised and whimsically rotund figures, has died at 91. His daughter...
