The Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum (IRHM), which is Turkey’s largest, and first museum dedicated to plastic arts, has recently received the most extensive collection donation in its history. Lale-Cengiz Akıncı donated their extensive collection to the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum
Faurschou Foundation in New York made the decision to shutter an installation of Yoko Ono’s work Ex It—an indoor arboretum of dogwood and evergreen trees planted in coffins—after four of the trees included in the work died, according to an artnet.com report.
A Florida art museum has filed a lawsuit more than a year after it mounted an exhibition of paintings by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat that federal investigators determined to be fake. The Orlando Museum of Art said it is suing the
On August 16th, 2023, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art raised its admission fees from $25 to $30, making it one of the most expensive museums in the country. The prices for young adults were also raised from $19 to $23, while the
Anonymous British Museum staff have told The Telegraph newspaper that the director of the museum, Hartwig Fischer, was forced to resign as a result of a series of alleged thefts from the museum, with calls for him to step down immediately Peter
More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a royal portrait that was discovered in a tomb within a vast necropolis, a new study suggests. The painting, of the pharaoh Ramesses II (reign circa 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C.), is in
Anna Laudel Düsseldorf is delighted to present Belkıs Balpınar’s solo exhibition “Relative Points of View” from August 19th until October 6th 2023. As a pioneer in the field of textile arts, internationally acclaimed artist Belkıs Balpınar distinguishes herself through her innovative and
An employee at the British Museum has been dismissed — and the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation — after a number of items from the museum’s collection were found to be “missing, stolen or damaged,” the museum said in a statement
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According to Anadolu Agency, Murat Akar of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University and his colleagues discovered a 3,800-year-old clay cuneiform tablet while working at the site of a palace in southern Turkey’s Accana tumulus. The mound, identified as the remains of Alalakh, the
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