Afghanistan: More than 150 digital prints of sketches, drawings and photographs drawn from the British Library’s collections went on show in a touring exhibition that opened in the Queen’s Palace in Bagh-e Babur, Kabul, on 24 April.
The works, by artists such as Charles Masson and James Atkinson, reflect the experiences of European visitors to Afghanistan between 1830 and 1920. The show is partly funded by a DCMS-backed initiative, the World Collections Programme.
Australia: The National Gallery of Victoria has rejected a AU$400,000 bequest from the estate of playwright Mona Fox and her husband, the writer Len Fox. The late couple wanted the museum to establish an award for a painting by an Australian artist “in sympathy with the work of [Len Fox’s uncle] Emanuel Phillips Fox”, a Melbourne-born artist. But the gallery said it was “not in the business of promoting and awarding prizes”.
Canada: Eighteen staff have been made redundant at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa as a result of rising costs and a decline in revenue from tourism. The educational programming department was among the worst affected. The gallery’s director, Marc Mayer, said it had redeployed as many staff as possible.
Netherlands: The reopening of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum has been delayed until late 2011. The restored modern-art institution was set to open later this year, but architect Mels Crouwel said the load-bearing foundations of the museum’s new extension had to be demolished and rebuilt.
US: Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores, plans to open a National Bible Museum. The Oklahoma City-based company has acquired Hebrew scrolls and medieval manuscripts along with Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a sixth-century Bible, from Westminster College at Cambridge University. The museum is likely to be located in Dallas.
Zimbabwe: More than 60 images were seized from the Gallery Delta in Harare by police, who argued that the works were lewd. But representatives of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZimRights), which organised the show, won a high court ruling to have the pictures returned for the exhibition launch.
Lawyers for ZimRights said the organisation had gained the consent of people featured in the works, some of which depicted the effects of violence during the 2008 elections.
Compiled by Gareth Harris. Seen in the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail (Canada), the Australian and the Dallas Morning News
The works, by artists such as Charles Masson and James Atkinson, reflect the experiences of European visitors to Afghanistan between 1830 and 1920. The show is partly funded by a DCMS-backed initiative, the World Collections Programme.
Australia: The National Gallery of Victoria has rejected a AU$400,000 bequest from the estate of playwright Mona Fox and her husband, the writer Len Fox. The late couple wanted the museum to establish an award for a painting by an Australian artist “in sympathy with the work of [Len Fox’s uncle] Emanuel Phillips Fox”, a Melbourne-born artist. But the gallery said it was “not in the business of promoting and awarding prizes”.
Canada: Eighteen staff have been made redundant at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa as a result of rising costs and a decline in revenue from tourism. The educational programming department was among the worst affected. The gallery’s director, Marc Mayer, said it had redeployed as many staff as possible.
Netherlands: The reopening of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum has been delayed until late 2011. The restored modern-art institution was set to open later this year, but architect Mels Crouwel said the load-bearing foundations of the museum’s new extension had to be demolished and rebuilt.
US: Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores, plans to open a National Bible Museum. The Oklahoma City-based company has acquired Hebrew scrolls and medieval manuscripts along with Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a sixth-century Bible, from Westminster College at Cambridge University. The museum is likely to be located in Dallas.
Zimbabwe: More than 60 images were seized from the Gallery Delta in Harare by police, who argued that the works were lewd. But representatives of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZimRights), which organised the show, won a high court ruling to have the pictures returned for the exhibition launch.
Lawyers for ZimRights said the organisation had gained the consent of people featured in the works, some of which depicted the effects of violence during the 2008 elections.
Compiled by Gareth Harris. Seen in the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, the Globe and Mail (Canada), the Australian and the Dallas Morning News
