President Emmanuel Macron’s Cultural Legacy At Risk After Louvre Chief Resigns
President Emmanuel Macron has championed a refurbishment of the museum, but the fallout from a sensational heist has put his plans at risk.
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After a turbulent year, Australia’s Khaled Sabsabi will present not one but two works at the Venice Biennale
The artist, who was controversially revoked and then reinstated by his government, is planning a ‘nurturing experience’ to bring people togetherAustralia’s presentation at the Venice Biennale in May will be a “nurturing experience” designed to bring pe…
Louvre Director Resigns, Months After Crown Jewels Were Stolen in Heist
Laurence des Cars’s departure is the latest setback for the world’s largest museum. Her tenure was marred by labor strikes, water leaks, a ticket scam and security lapses, which led to the heist in October.
‘We’ve scratched the surface’: mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries
New Art UK chair Ben Terrett appointed as charity marks 10 years of building online databaseFrom a bronze Rodin sculpture of the naked Eve outside a Nando’s in Harlow to more than 6,000 artworks by JMW Turner, to a crumpled-up piece of A4 paper owned b…
LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal
Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings LS Lowry was convinced his paintings would be worthless after his death, he confided in a previously unheard interview.Although the arti…
Madrid museum shuffles its pack charting decades of rapid change in Spain
Reina Sofía’s three-year rehang of works by artists from Spain and beyond is billed as a ‘critical reinterpretation’The Reina Sofía’s new rehang opens, quite pointedly, with a painting of a detained man sitting, head bowed and wrists shackled, as he wa…
Ticket Scam Cost the Louvre $12 Million, Investigators Say
The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade.
‘Bring it back’: Sicilians say Antonello da Messina’s Ecce Homo belongs with them
Much of Messina’s cultural memory was destroyed in a 1908 earthquake, but the Italian government has secured a masterpiece by the port city’s greatest sonOn 28 December 1908, the city of Messina was struck by what is still considered the deadliest natu…
Serco accused of ‘petty and vindictive’ removal of artwork from court cells
Government contractor stripped custody suites in England and Wales of motivational murals, report saysA government contractor has been accused of being “petty and vindictive” after tearing down brightly coloured artworks carrying motivational messages …
AI analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and US museums
Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century masterAn analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a p…