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Mauritshuis Loaning ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ to Japan

01/09/2026

The HeadlinesEXTRAORDINARY LOAN. The Mauritshuis in The Hague revealed on Thursday that it will send its most famous painting, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (circa 1665), to Japan this summer, the Japan Times wrote. The work will be …

Метки : искусствовыставкавермееркультурное наследиеэкологиятрамп

South Africa Cancels Venice Biennale Gaza Artwork by Gabrielle Goliath

01/09/2026

South Africa selected a Gabrielle Goliath work about Gaza for its Venice Biennale pavilion, then rescinded the decision amid concerns that the work was “polarizing,” according to a report by the Daily Maverick, a South African publication. The decision to …

Метки : южная африкавенецианская биенналегабриэлла голиатцензураискусствомеждународные отношения

Trump Withdraws from International Cultural Organizations

01/09/2026

While the world was dealing with horrific news about an ICE agent fatally shooting an American civilian in the streets of Minneapolis on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s administration was withdrawing the US from 66 international groups, conventions, and treaties, including …

Метки : политикасшаискусство#культурасвобода выражениятрамп

Pokémon Pop-Up at London’s Natural History Museum Sells Out Ahead of Opening

01/09/2026

The Natural History Museum in London is set to host a Pokémon pop-up shop later this month, an event that has already proved popular enough to sell out timed entry slots well ahead of its opening. According to Time Out …

Метки : покемонымузейискусствоколлаборациясобытия#культура

Antwerp’s Museum of Contemporary Art Calls Government Plan to Dissolve It Illegal

01/09/2026

Antwerp’s Museum of Contemporary Art Calls Government Plan to Dissolve It Illegal The leaders of theMuseum of Contemporary Art Antwerp(M HKA) at a January 6 press conference publicly denounced the Flemish government’sscheme to dissolve it and move its collection to …

Метки : музеиискусствозаконодательство#культурабельгияполитика

Noted Curator Kathleen Goncharov Dies at 73

01/09/2026

Noted Curator Kathleen Goncharov Dies at 73 Kathleen Goncharov, who launched her career at Linda Goode’s pathbreaking New York galleryJust Above Midtownand went on to serve as US Commissioner for the FiftiethVenice Biennale, died in her Boca Raton, Florida, home …

Метки : искусствокураторвенецианская биенналеподдержка художников#культураталант

Sotheby’s to Sell Most Valuable Single-Owner Whiskey Collection

01/09/2026

Sotheby’s is binning any notion of “dry January” by betting big on whisky at the end of this month. At its new Breuer Building HQ on January 24, the house will host its first-ever live, single-owner sale devoted entirely to …

Метки : вискиаукционsotheby'sколлекцияискусство#культура

MSCHF's Latest Project Could See a Two-Year Cow Slaughtered

01/09/2026

In about two months, the fate of a cow named Angus will be decided. At present, the outlook is grim: Angus is slated to be turned into roughly 1,200 hamburger patties and four leather handbags. But MSCHF—the art collective behind …

Метки : искусствоэтикамясная промышленностьmschfкритикапроект

Sperone Westwater Court Fight Reveals Details Behind Closure

01/09/2026

Sperone Westwater’s closure has exposed a deeper legal and financial dispute than first suggested by the gallery’s sudden shutdown at the end of 2025. Newly filed court documents allege governance failures, disputed payments to artists, and years of internal deadlock …

Метки : ожидаемоеискусствогалереянью-йоркзаконыспоры

See the 2026 Nominees for France's Prix Marcel Duchamp

01/09/2026

The Prix Marcel Duchamp, France’s most esteemed art prize, has named the artists nominated for its 2026 award. While there are normally four nominees, this year there are technically five. Those nominees include Joël Andrianomearisoa, a Malagasy artist whose vibrant …

Метки : искусствонаградывыставкафранция#культурасовременное искусство

Smithsonian Told Staffer to Remove 'Unjust' From Show on Internment

01/09/2026

2025 was quite a year for the Smithsonian Institution, which found itself in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration early and often. Last year began with Trump calling for a purge of “anti-American ideology” from the institution’s 19 museums. …

Метки : смитсоновский институтадминистрация трампацензураяпонские американцыгражданские свободыискусство

Researchers Find 60,000-Year-Old Poisoned Arrowheads in Africa

01/09/2026

Researchers from South Africa and Sweden have found traces of poison on 60,000-year-old arrowheads in South Africa. Their discovery, reported by Stockholm University in the journal Science Advances, is the earliest direct evidence of the use of poisoned hunting weapons …

Метки : история.археологияохотаисследованияюжная африкаяды

Scientists Extract DNA from Drawing That Could Connect to Leonardo da Vinci

01/09/2026

Scientists extracted DNA from a possible Leonardo da Vinci drawing that may provide genetic links to one of the most storied humans to walk the Earth. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper posted Tuesday in a preprint database, researchers from the Leonardo …

Метки : леонардо да винчиднкискусствоаутентификацияисследованияискусствоведение

Uffizi Staffers Protest Mass Layoff of Part-Time Workers

01/09/2026

Uffizi Staffers Protest Mass Layoff of Part-Time Workers Roughly one hundredUffizistaffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service …

Метки : уффиципротествременные работникиувольнениепрофсоюзкультурное наследие