Following significant gains in local elections, Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Ekrem İmamoğlu once again led the elections during Sunday’s mayoral elections. İmamoğlu is also known for supporting cultural life in Istanbul. Since the beginning of 2024, Istanbul locals have been pleased to
Camille Claudel’s legacy is celebrated in a new exhibition as a towering figure in modernist sculpture within France. Claudel’s life, marked by tragedy including confinement in an asylum during her final years, has been portrayed on screen, notably by Isabelle Adjani opposite
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has completed the return of an ancient Sumerian sculpture to Iraq. The restitution ceremony for the Sumerian sculpture took place in Washington D.C., as announced by the Met in a statement. This return
Several museums in the UK have acknowledged the loss, theft, or destruction of hundreds of items from their collections over the past five years, shedding light on a widespread issue in the sector following last year’s British Museum thefts scandal. Among the
An employee at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany, has been terminated from the museum’s installation team after secretly hanging his own artwork on the gallery walls after hours on February 23. The 51-year-old freelance artist, whose identity remains undisclosed, faces
Over the years since 2013, more than 6,000 human skeletons collected from 38 excavation sites across various regions of Türkiye have been housed at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (MAKÜ) Department of Anthropology in Türkiye’s Denizli Province. These bones and fossils have
A regulatory office is currently investigating the British Museum following allegations that the institution has maintained excessive secrecy regarding 11 Ethiopian artifacts in its collection, which were looted by soldiers in 1868. These artifacts consist of sacred wood and stone altar tablets
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is to sell Claude Monet’s painting Christie’s this May; the artwork could fetch as much as $25 million. Co-owned by the heirs of Ethel B. Atha, the painting has garnered an estimated value of
On March 27, the Sci-Fi World Museum opened in Santa Monica, featuring the Star Trek bridge as its venue. The designers constructed four different versions of the Enterprise-D’s bridge for the 1987 television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Unfortunately, the first
The British Museum announced on March 28 that it had appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director. Cullinan will replace Hartwig Fischer, who resigned after a theft scandal at the museum. Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the UK’s National Portrait Gallery, becomes
A judge has issued a ruling mandating that a former curator, accused by the British Museum of pilfering numerous artifacts, must return any gems or jewelry belonging to the institution that may be in his possession. The museum alleges that Peter Higgs,
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