Brazil: Oscar Niemeyer died last month aged 104. The celebrated Brazilian architect, who was known for his modernist structures, designed government buildings in Brasilia in the 1950s, as well as the saucer-shaped Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói, near Rio, which opened in 1996.
China: The Pompidou Centre in Paris has organised the inaugural exhibition at the new Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China’s first state-run museum of contemporary art. The show, which opened last month, includes works by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. The French museum is set to receive substantial loan fees for the works dispatched to China.
Greece: Police have recovered more than 70 antiquities stolen from a museum in Olympia last February. Three men were arrested in Patras, west Greece, when a suspect attempted to sell a gold ring to an undercover police officer. The other artefacts were found buried in a nearby field.
Russia: The public prosecutor in St Petersburg will not take action against the Hermitage Museum after receiving 114 complaints from visitors to an exhibition of works there by UK artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. The show features Nazi insignia and installations depicting extreme violence.
Turkey: The government has claimed that the Louvre, in Paris, owns a selection of ceramic tiles that were illicitly removed from Istanbul’s Piyale Pasha Mosque in the late 19th century. A Louvre spokeswoman said the pieces were either acquired or donated between 1871 and 1940.
US: The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired video games such as Pac-Man (1980) and Tetris (1984) for its collection. A museum statement read: “The games are selected as outstanding examples of interaction design… one of the most important and oft-discussed expressions of contemporary design creativity.”
US: The Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut, reopened last month following a $135m revamp. The gallery has increased in size by 75% to 69,975 sq ft. More than 4,000 works are on show, including Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café (1888).
Seen in the Art Newspaper, New York Times, Guardian, Hürriyet Daily News, BBC and artinfo.com
China: The Pompidou Centre in Paris has organised the inaugural exhibition at the new Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China’s first state-run museum of contemporary art. The show, which opened last month, includes works by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. The French museum is set to receive substantial loan fees for the works dispatched to China.
Greece: Police have recovered more than 70 antiquities stolen from a museum in Olympia last February. Three men were arrested in Patras, west Greece, when a suspect attempted to sell a gold ring to an undercover police officer. The other artefacts were found buried in a nearby field.
Russia: The public prosecutor in St Petersburg will not take action against the Hermitage Museum after receiving 114 complaints from visitors to an exhibition of works there by UK artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. The show features Nazi insignia and installations depicting extreme violence.
Turkey: The government has claimed that the Louvre, in Paris, owns a selection of ceramic tiles that were illicitly removed from Istanbul’s Piyale Pasha Mosque in the late 19th century. A Louvre spokeswoman said the pieces were either acquired or donated between 1871 and 1940.
US: The Museum of Modern Art in New York has acquired video games such as Pac-Man (1980) and Tetris (1984) for its collection. A museum statement read: “The games are selected as outstanding examples of interaction design… one of the most important and oft-discussed expressions of contemporary design creativity.”
US: The Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut, reopened last month following a $135m revamp. The gallery has increased in size by 75% to 69,975 sq ft. More than 4,000 works are on show, including Vincent van Gogh’s Night Café (1888).
Seen in the Art Newspaper, New York Times, Guardian, Hürriyet Daily News, BBC and artinfo.com
