Observations · Science · Society
A new scandal may be looming in the scientific world over the policies of academic journals; at least its outlines are already visible. Tushar Sen, an Indian software researcher, reports that a reviewer for a major journal extorted money from him in exchange for a favourable report. The paper, on
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I thought the Pushkin Museum's previous logo was a failure, but now they have replaced it with something even more abstract: just four columns, although the portico of the main building rests on six. And yet they could simply have admitted the mistake of 2024 and gone back
Museums · Heritage · Paris
The robbed Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre has reopened to the public. But since the robbery the hall has stood empty. The museum's new director, Christophe Leribault, has decided that whatever survived the robbery must be hidden away in a high-security vault. Well, not quite
Art · Society
The European Union has confirmed the cancellation of a long-term two-million grant to the Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. The pavilion, meanwhile, was open for only a few days. The European Commission had threatened to halt funding as early as
Archive · Art · Books · Education
The programme of the Futurists in two lines of Khlebnikov, written around 1908. We wish to say “thou” to the stars We are tired of saying “you” to the stars We have learned the sweetness of roaring Be fearsome, like Ostranitsa, Platov and Baklanov, Enough of your bowing To the
Architecture · Art · Heritage · Society
In the Chilean City of Chillán, a Monumental Mural Painted Over on Pinochet's Orders Is Being Restored. Julio Escámez's mural "Beginning and End" was commissioned in 1969 for the ceremonial hall of the municipal building and took two years to complete. Its theme will
Art · Observations
Gala and Dalí. Siegfried Gille, 1983 Just as I had pictured them
Museums · Heritage · Society
Because of the heat, a trade union threatens strike action in Venice's museums. An Italian national cross-sector trade union has declared an industrial dispute over the fact that working in Venice's museums has become dangerous. The apparent temperature outside reaches 40 degrees, while inside certain
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Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums · People
In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his working studio, where he painted and
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · New York · Society
Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson has explained why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property. Aboutaam built a scheme of shell companies and forged provenances: a restorer scrubbed freshly excavated objects with a toothbrush in an old
Archaeology · The East · Heritage · Society
The vote will begin in Busan, South Korea, this Friday. The List of World Heritage in Danger is a separate status within the World Heritage register, to which are added sites threatened with destruction by war, natural disaster, development or neglect. The Director of the World Heritage Centre, Lazare Eloundou