France: The French culture minister, Aurélie Filippetti, has blocked the loan of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 28 July 1830, to an exhibition opening in China this spring.
Conservators at the Louvre ruled that the painting was too fragile to travel. Eight major works by artists such as Renoir and Fernand Léger, drawn from French national museums, will go on show in Beijing.
Hong Kong: The Chinese collector Guan Yi has donated 37 major Chinese contemporary works to the museum for visual culture, M+, which is due to open in the West Kowloon Cultural District in late 2017. The works, dating from the 1980s to today, are by artists such as Huang Yong Ping and Cao Fei.
US: Philippe Vergne, the director of the New York-based Dia Art Foundation, has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The museum also announced that it had completed a fundraising campaign to bring its endowment up to $100m.
US: The American Alliance of Museums has criticised the $25.5m sale of George Bellows’ Men of the Docks by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Virginia to London’s National Gallery. The alliance said it was an “egregious violation of our code of ethics, showing total disregard of an important tenet common to the charter of all museums: collections are held in the public trust”.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Los Angeles Times and Le Monde
Conservators at the Louvre ruled that the painting was too fragile to travel. Eight major works by artists such as Renoir and Fernand Léger, drawn from French national museums, will go on show in Beijing.
Hong Kong: The Chinese collector Guan Yi has donated 37 major Chinese contemporary works to the museum for visual culture, M+, which is due to open in the West Kowloon Cultural District in late 2017. The works, dating from the 1980s to today, are by artists such as Huang Yong Ping and Cao Fei.
US: Philippe Vergne, the director of the New York-based Dia Art Foundation, has been appointed director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The museum also announced that it had completed a fundraising campaign to bring its endowment up to $100m.
US: The American Alliance of Museums has criticised the $25.5m sale of George Bellows’ Men of the Docks by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Virginia to London’s National Gallery. The alliance said it was an “egregious violation of our code of ethics, showing total disregard of an important tenet common to the charter of all museums: collections are held in the public trust”.
Seen in the Art Newspaper, Los Angeles Times and Le Monde
