Canada: A C$2m (£980,000)donation from a Vancouver-based philanthropist and board member is funding a new curatorial chair in indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The endowment will also allow the gallery to strengthen its collection of 1,600 indigenous works.
France: Jeff Koons has been invited to exhibit between 12 and 15 works in the Palace of Versailles from September to November. New director Jean-Jacques Aillagon is presiding over a £350m revamp, including plans to create a portrait gallery.
Germany: An exhibition of Chinese terracotta warriors at Hamburg's Museum of Ethnology was pulled after the Leipzig-based private-exhibition company, Centre for Chinese Art and Culture, admitted that the figures on display were clay reproductions.
The museum has offered refunds to the 10,000-plus people who have visited the show. China is investigating the matter as infringement of copyright.
Europe: Statistics office Eurostat has published its 2007 Pocketbook on Cultural Statistics, which provides an overview of the cultural economy in the 27 EU member states, as well as those in the European Free Trade Association.
The report covers demographics, employment and trade in the cultural industries, household cultural spend and participation levels. For more, log on to: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-77-07-296/EN/KS-77-07-296-EN.PDF
United Arab Emirates: A new not-for-profit organisation called Kalima, funded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, has revealed plans to translate 100 epochal foreign-language texts into Arabic by the end of 2008.
Early translations will include titles by Umberto Eco, Stephen Hawking, Haruki Murakami and Jürgen Habermas.
US: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is selling wallpaper for mobile phones from its new digital images shop. Having digitised 350,000 works from its collection, the museum has one of the world's biggest image databases. See http://mfamobile.mfa.org
US: Los Angeles County Museum of Art has secured a gift of 130 works of modern art, worth more than $100m from two local collectors. They include 20 works by Picasso, as well as pieces by Brancusi, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Miro and Moore.
Russia: A £28,000 prize for contemporary Russian art has been established with the support of Deutsche Bank and a Moscow-based culture foundation.
The Kandinsky Prize has been billed as the country's version of the Turner Prize and reflects the business elite's growing interest in contemporary art. The first winner was sculptor Anatoly Osmolovsky, with a work inspired by a Soviet tank turret.
Compiled by Magnus von Wistinghausen
Seen in: artsjournal.com; The Art Newspaper; Bloomberg.com; The Guardian
France: Jeff Koons has been invited to exhibit between 12 and 15 works in the Palace of Versailles from September to November. New director Jean-Jacques Aillagon is presiding over a £350m revamp, including plans to create a portrait gallery.
Germany: An exhibition of Chinese terracotta warriors at Hamburg's Museum of Ethnology was pulled after the Leipzig-based private-exhibition company, Centre for Chinese Art and Culture, admitted that the figures on display were clay reproductions.
The museum has offered refunds to the 10,000-plus people who have visited the show. China is investigating the matter as infringement of copyright.
Europe: Statistics office Eurostat has published its 2007 Pocketbook on Cultural Statistics, which provides an overview of the cultural economy in the 27 EU member states, as well as those in the European Free Trade Association.
The report covers demographics, employment and trade in the cultural industries, household cultural spend and participation levels. For more, log on to: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-77-07-296/EN/KS-77-07-296-EN.PDF
United Arab Emirates: A new not-for-profit organisation called Kalima, funded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, has revealed plans to translate 100 epochal foreign-language texts into Arabic by the end of 2008.
Early translations will include titles by Umberto Eco, Stephen Hawking, Haruki Murakami and Jürgen Habermas.
US: Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is selling wallpaper for mobile phones from its new digital images shop. Having digitised 350,000 works from its collection, the museum has one of the world's biggest image databases. See http://mfamobile.mfa.org
US: Los Angeles County Museum of Art has secured a gift of 130 works of modern art, worth more than $100m from two local collectors. They include 20 works by Picasso, as well as pieces by Brancusi, Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse, Miro and Moore.
Russia: A £28,000 prize for contemporary Russian art has been established with the support of Deutsche Bank and a Moscow-based culture foundation.
The Kandinsky Prize has been billed as the country's version of the Turner Prize and reflects the business elite's growing interest in contemporary art. The first winner was sculptor Anatoly Osmolovsky, with a work inspired by a Soviet tank turret.
Compiled by Magnus von Wistinghausen
Seen in: artsjournal.com; The Art Newspaper; Bloomberg.com; The Guardian
