Australia: The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney is set to expand after receiving A$10.8m (£6.3m) from the state government.
The money will be used to fund the planning stages of a major new wing, which would be located adjacent to the existing 19th-century building. “We desperately need more space for temporary exhibitions and to show different art forms [such as video and fi lm],” said director Michael Brand.
China: The International Council of Museums has launched a training centre for museum studies in Beijing, which will act as a research and training hub, especially for members from Asia-Pacific countries. Representatives from the Palace Museum in Beijing will help manage the new institution.
France: An exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris explores the life of the French art dealer Charles Ratton, who was instrumental in developing the market for tribal art from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. In the 1930s, he helped organise several pivotal exhibitions and auctions, especially a show of Benin bronzes held in Paris in 1932. The exhibition runs until 22 September.
Russia: Irina Antonova, the 91-year-old director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, stepped down over the summer after 52 years. Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian culture minister, announced that Antonova would move to the ceremonial post of president of the museum. Her replacement is Marina Loshak, artistic director of Moscow’s Manezh exhibition centre.
US: The city of Detroit, which was declared bankrupt in July with debts of at least $18bn, has hired Christie’s to value the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which includes works by Caravaggio and Van Gogh. Municipal officials said Detroit would pay the auction house $200,000 to appraise the city-owned portion of the museum’s holdings.
US: the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas Campbell, plans to organise a colloquium for museum directors from across the world (7-18 April 2014).
Participants will discuss museum management issues and education programmes at the forum, which will be held at the Met museum. The event is particularly aimed at museum directors in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Seen in the Wall Street Journal, Art Newspaper and Financial Times
The money will be used to fund the planning stages of a major new wing, which would be located adjacent to the existing 19th-century building. “We desperately need more space for temporary exhibitions and to show different art forms [such as video and fi lm],” said director Michael Brand.
China: The International Council of Museums has launched a training centre for museum studies in Beijing, which will act as a research and training hub, especially for members from Asia-Pacific countries. Representatives from the Palace Museum in Beijing will help manage the new institution.
France: An exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris explores the life of the French art dealer Charles Ratton, who was instrumental in developing the market for tribal art from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. In the 1930s, he helped organise several pivotal exhibitions and auctions, especially a show of Benin bronzes held in Paris in 1932. The exhibition runs until 22 September.
Russia: Irina Antonova, the 91-year-old director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, stepped down over the summer after 52 years. Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian culture minister, announced that Antonova would move to the ceremonial post of president of the museum. Her replacement is Marina Loshak, artistic director of Moscow’s Manezh exhibition centre.
US: The city of Detroit, which was declared bankrupt in July with debts of at least $18bn, has hired Christie’s to value the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, which includes works by Caravaggio and Van Gogh. Municipal officials said Detroit would pay the auction house $200,000 to appraise the city-owned portion of the museum’s holdings.
US: the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas Campbell, plans to organise a colloquium for museum directors from across the world (7-18 April 2014).
Participants will discuss museum management issues and education programmes at the forum, which will be held at the Met museum. The event is particularly aimed at museum directors in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Seen in the Wall Street Journal, Art Newspaper and Financial Times
