The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) approved a request from Ukraine to add 20 landmarks to the international list of cultural heritage sites under enhanced protection, Deputy Culture Minister Anastasiia Bondar said on Sept. 7. The list includes the
V&A Dundee, the Scottish branch of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has stripped the Sackler name from its galleries, but will not be returning the £500,000 (roughly $627,000) it was gifted from the Sackler Trust before opening in 2018. With this, V&A
About Dry Grasses, the latest film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan that played in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was submitted by Turkey on Friday to represent the country in the Oscar International Feature Oscar race. About Dry Grasses centers on
Gossip about recent art fair-industry consolidation was a major focus at the VIP opening day of The Armory Show, as art world denizens debated the impact of the Frieze acquisition of both Armory and EXPO Chicago earlier this summer, according to artnet.com
Depo presents The Past is Present by the Memory Museum for Historical Justice, Turkey’s first digital museum and human rights archive. The Past is Present is the most comprehensive exhibition on the 1980 Coup d’État to date. The exhibition, whose name references
Anna Laudel presents “Glorious Century” by the award-winning visual artist Sarp Kerem Yavuz between September 22 – November 5, 2023. Through film-based, digital, and AI-generated photographs of the male form, Yavuz’s “Glorious Century” explores themes of Orientalism, homoerotica, politics, religion, and violence.
A former head of the V&A Museum, who previously suggested the Parthenon marbles could be shared with Greece, has been put forward as the interim director of the British Museum. Sir Mark Jones will replace Hartwig Fischer, who quit after it emerged
A monumental artist deserves a monumental documentary, and that is what Anselm Kiefer receives in Wim Wenders’ new film, titled simply Anselm. Wenders shot it in 3D and 6K resolution, documenting the German-born painter and sculptor who makes work on a truly grand
Italian newspapers have speculated that a right-wing journalist backed by Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni is set to become the next president of the Venice Biennale, artner.com reported. Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, who has no previous managerial experience, publicly supported Meloni during her election
The Ukrainian government has launched a new tool for identifying artworks tied to sanctioned Russian nationals. Now accessible through the embattled country’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) is a new “War & Art” database of paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that
