Bosnia-Herzegovina: National museums are under threat as the central government, which has no ministry of culture, has refused to pay for their upkeep.
The Historical Museum has closed while Adnan Busuladzic, director of the National Museum of Bosnia, has warned that the institution will partly close in coming weeks. Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders are in dispute over who should pay the museums’ bills.
Finland: The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation plans to build a museum in Helsinki following a year-long feasibility study into the €140m project. The 12,000 sq m museum is set to be built on the waterfront by 2017. The city council will decide this month whether the scheme should go ahead.
France: The Louvre in Paris has entered into a four-year partnership with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Arkansas-based Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago.
Each institution will help fund and organise annual exhibitions of US and European art, the first of which opened at the Louvre last month (New Frontier: Thomas Cole, until 16 April).
Palestine: An international charity, the Welfare Association, plans to open a museum of Palestinian culture in the town of Birzeit.
The centre for the study and interpretation of Palestinian history and contemporary life is scheduled to open by 2014 on a site donated by Birzeit University. The charity has launched a competition to find an architect.
US: A $118m extension at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston opened last month. The wing houses a 200 sq m exhibition space and conservation studios.
US: Sheena Wagstaff, chief curator at Tate Modern, has been named chairwoman of the new modern and contemporary art department at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Meanwhile, Sean Rainbird, director of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, has been appointed director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Art in America, International Herald Tribune, Huffington Post, artforum.com and BBC
The Historical Museum has closed while Adnan Busuladzic, director of the National Museum of Bosnia, has warned that the institution will partly close in coming weeks. Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders are in dispute over who should pay the museums’ bills.
Finland: The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation plans to build a museum in Helsinki following a year-long feasibility study into the €140m project. The 12,000 sq m museum is set to be built on the waterfront by 2017. The city council will decide this month whether the scheme should go ahead.
France: The Louvre in Paris has entered into a four-year partnership with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Arkansas-based Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago.
Each institution will help fund and organise annual exhibitions of US and European art, the first of which opened at the Louvre last month (New Frontier: Thomas Cole, until 16 April).
Palestine: An international charity, the Welfare Association, plans to open a museum of Palestinian culture in the town of Birzeit.
The centre for the study and interpretation of Palestinian history and contemporary life is scheduled to open by 2014 on a site donated by Birzeit University. The charity has launched a competition to find an architect.
US: A $118m extension at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston opened last month. The wing houses a 200 sq m exhibition space and conservation studios.
US: Sheena Wagstaff, chief curator at Tate Modern, has been named chairwoman of the new modern and contemporary art department at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Meanwhile, Sean Rainbird, director of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, has been appointed director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Art in America, International Herald Tribune, Huffington Post, artforum.com and BBC
