Argentina: The National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires has cancelled loans to an exhibition in Frankfurt because the works of art may be seized on behalf of the German creditors who lost money when Argentina defaulted on a $30bn bond in 2001. The long-running legal dispute means that no art from the national collection is allowed to be lent overseas.
France: The US-based Annenberg Foundation has awarded €1m to the Musée du Louvre to support its education work with children. The museum plans to create interactive multimedia displays and distribute DVDs and art loan boxes to schools. In France, art history is part of the curriculum from primary school age.
Israel: The Pope will visit the Yad Vashem memorial during his trip to Jerusalem next month, but his itinerary does not include the nearby Holocaust Museum.
This has been interpreted as an indirect criticism of a display in the museum that accuses Pope Pius XII of silence and inaction during the second world war. Although he did not publicly condemn the Nazis, Catholic historians claim the Pope quietly instructed nuns and monks to provide shelter for Jews.
Poland: The government has launched an international fundraising campaign for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The museum oversees the site of the Nazi death camp where more than a million people perished during the second world war.
The money is needed to conserve its 155 buildings, 300 ruins and thousands of artefacts. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has announced that a new foundation will be set up to administer the funds and that raising the $120m needed is "the responsibility and duty" of all Europe.
Russia/Germany: Museum directors, including those of the Hermitage and Dresden Public Art Collection, as well as art historians from Russia and Germany, have called on their respective governments to support renewed efforts to trace the works of art looted by Soviet and German troops during the second world war.
They want improved access to archives, which may reveal the whereabouts or fate of looted art, and a joint commission to coordinate research.
US: The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco hopes to raise funds, and defy the property market slump, by raffling a $2.4m "dream house". Tickets for the des res near Golden Gate Park cost $150. The grand draw will be in July, when the lucky winner can either move in or claim a cash prize alternative of $1.8m.
Compiled by Javier Pes. Seen in Catholic News Agency, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph and Los Angeles Times
France: The US-based Annenberg Foundation has awarded €1m to the Musée du Louvre to support its education work with children. The museum plans to create interactive multimedia displays and distribute DVDs and art loan boxes to schools. In France, art history is part of the curriculum from primary school age.
Israel: The Pope will visit the Yad Vashem memorial during his trip to Jerusalem next month, but his itinerary does not include the nearby Holocaust Museum.
This has been interpreted as an indirect criticism of a display in the museum that accuses Pope Pius XII of silence and inaction during the second world war. Although he did not publicly condemn the Nazis, Catholic historians claim the Pope quietly instructed nuns and monks to provide shelter for Jews.
Poland: The government has launched an international fundraising campaign for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The museum oversees the site of the Nazi death camp where more than a million people perished during the second world war.
The money is needed to conserve its 155 buildings, 300 ruins and thousands of artefacts. Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has announced that a new foundation will be set up to administer the funds and that raising the $120m needed is "the responsibility and duty" of all Europe.
Russia/Germany: Museum directors, including those of the Hermitage and Dresden Public Art Collection, as well as art historians from Russia and Germany, have called on their respective governments to support renewed efforts to trace the works of art looted by Soviet and German troops during the second world war.
They want improved access to archives, which may reveal the whereabouts or fate of looted art, and a joint commission to coordinate research.
US: The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco hopes to raise funds, and defy the property market slump, by raffling a $2.4m "dream house". Tickets for the des res near Golden Gate Park cost $150. The grand draw will be in July, when the lucky winner can either move in or claim a cash prize alternative of $1.8m.
Compiled by Javier Pes. Seen in Catholic News Agency, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph and Los Angeles Times
