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Prado Director Says Museum Won’t Be Chasing Ever-Growing Visitor Numbers

01/16/2026

The new millennium has seen museums around the world grow—and then grow some more. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are in the midst of sweeping campus reimaginings, while the …

Метки : музыкаискусствомеждународные выставки#культурамузейпрадо

Centre Pompidou Gives Up Grand Palais Area for 'Financial Constraints'

01/16/2026

The Centre Pompidou gave up one of its two spaces at the Grand Palais due to what the Paris museum described as “financial constraints faced by both institutions,” according to Le Monde. The Pompidou had been using two exhibition spaces …

Метки : центр помпидугран-палевыставкифотографияискусствоевропа

Swatch x Guggenheim Releases Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

01/16/2026

Swiss watch company Swatch is the latest brand to partner with a major museum on a product collection. On Thursday, it announced the Swatch x Guggenheim Collection, featuring watches that translate pieces from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim …

Метки : искусствоколлекцияswatchгуггенхаймчасысотрудничество

United States Artists Names 2026 Fellows

01/15/2026

The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has named the 50 artists who will receive its annual USA Fellowship and the recipient of its Berresford Prize, both of which come with an unrestricted grant of $50,000. This year marks the 20th …

Метки : искусствопремияхудожникигрантыподдержка#культура

Rocky Statue Will Move to Top of Philadelphia Art Museum Steps

01/15/2026

A popular statue of Rocky that’s currently sited at the bottom of the stairs leading to the Philadelphia Art Museum is officially being relocated to the top of those flights. There is technically a sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional …

Метки : роккифиладельфияискусствоскульптурамузейпамятники

California College of the Arts to Close in 2027

01/15/2026

California College of the Arts to Close in 2027 San Francisco’sCalifornia College of the Artsannounced on January 13 that it will “wind down” its operations and shutter permanently at the end of the 2026–27 school year. CCA is the last …

Метки : искусствообразованиезакрытие.колледжновостинэшвилл

Smithsonian Hands Over Internal Materials to White House

01/15/2026

The Smithsonian Institution has turned over internal materials related to its programming and operations amid White House pressure for a review, according to private emails from Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch II obtained by The New York Times. After retaking office …

Метки : смитсоновский институтдональд трампполитиканаукаискусствоистория.

Bob Ross Paintings Go to Auction to Raise Money for Public Broadcasting

01/15/2026

Three more paintings by PBS icon Bob Ross are going up for sale at Bonham’s at the end of the month, as part of a group of 30 such works being sold to raise money for the beleaguered public-broadcasting entity …

Метки : боб россаукционобщественное телевидениеискусствоискусство и культурафинансирование

Rome Offers Livestream Tours of Ancient Underground Dwelling

01/15/2026

In an effort to draw visitors to comparatively less-trafficked areas of Rome’s top tourist destination, the city is offering tours—via livestream—of an ancient Roman home that has not previously been open to the public. The House of the Griffins is …

Метки : римкультурное наследиевиртуальные турыархеологияискусствореставрация

Warhol Foundation to Give $4 M.+ in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations

01/15/2026

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York has announced the cohort for its Fall 2025 grant recipients, which give over $4 million to 57 arts organizations. The Warhol Foundation is known for its decades-long support of …

Метки : грантыискусство#культураподдержкавыставкихудожественные организации

Archaeologists Find an Unusual 2500-year-old Stylus in Sicily

01/14/2026

An archeological operation conducted in advance of a construction project in Gela, Sicily, has uncovered an unusual carved bone stylus—a sharp tool used to inscribe clay before firing—that, according to excavation director Gianluca Calà, may have had a symbolic purpose. …

Метки : археологиясицилияискусстводревнегреческая культуранаходки

Goodman Gallery Dropped Gabrielle Goliath Before Venice Controversy

01/14/2026

Artist Gabrielle Goliath was dropped by her South African representative, Goodman Gallery, before the cancelation of her proposed Venice Biennale pavilion, according to a report by the Cape Town–based newspaper Daily Maverick from Tuesday. She appears to have been one …

Метки : искусствовенецианская биенналегабриэль голиатцензураюжная африкаполитический скандал

Rijksmuseum to Open New Sculpture Garden, Thanks to $70M Donation

01/14/2026

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has announced that it will open a new sculpture garden in the fall of 2026. The endeavor will be funded by a donation of nearly $70 million from the Don Quixote Foundation. According to Dutch News, the foundation …

Метки : искусстворейксмузеумскульптуравыставкиархитектураблаготворительность

An Artist Is Chanting Renee Good's Last Words Outside ICE HQ

01/14/2026

“I’m not mad at you, dude,” Renee Nicole Good, a poet and mother living in Minneapolis, told her eventual killer, a masked ICE agent. Good’s death—captured on video—has made global headlines and added fuel to the ongoing mobilization of Minneapolis’s …

Метки : протестискусствоиммиграциясоциальная критикаактивизмнью-йорк