The East · Art · Museums · Society
On 25 September the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a work commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The installation, entitled "Mushrooms", consists of 500 cast-iron soldiers' helmets, which the artist has arranged in ten even rows on the Tallawoladah lawn. This lawn
The East · Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
On 24 September Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, wife of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington. The First Ladies came to the museum during the diplomatic visit of the Chinese delegation, while their husbands remained at the White
Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
The British government has temporarily barred the export from the country of the bronze statuette "Seated Nymph" by the Italian sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, whom his contemporaries nicknamed Antico. Experts have valued the statuette at £4.6 million. The temporary bar gives British museums and galleries time
Art · Archive · Museums · Heritage
The Bavarian State Painting Collections have returned to the heirs of Sophie Heilbronner, née Wimpfheimer, the painting "Music (Arcadian Scene)" by the German artist Albert Lang, painted in 1892. The Bavarian State Painting Collections bring together the museums of Munich, among them the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. The
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Science
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a newly discovered painting by Diego Velázquez. The work is the first piece by the seventeenth-century Spanish master in the museum's collection. Velázquez painted the bust-length portrait around 1626; it depicts Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · New York
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has handed over to Greece ancient objects that until recently were held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since 2017 the Manhattan prosecutor's office has had a special unit devoted to combating the illicit trade in antiquities, which
Art · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art shows Vrubel from the side by which he is least known. The exhibition runs from 18 September 2026 to 17 February 2027 and is timed to the artist's 170th anniversary. The conception is built around ceramics. The visitor learns that for
Saint Petersburg · Heritage · Architecture · Museums · Archive
The Catherine Palace suffered severely during the German occupation of Pushkin. The Germans first plundered Rastrelli's Baroque masterpiece, then turned it into barracks and garages, and, retreating in January 1944, mined it and set it on fire. It was from its charred and mutilated walls that the Amber
Museums · Society · Paris · Heritage
On Saturday the Paris police arrested two dimwits from Germany at the Louvre, who had fixed two paintings of their own, each measuring 30 by 40 cm, to the wall beside the "Mona Lisa". One of the pictures they had brought depicted a man in armour. The other
Art · Museums · Heritage
On the afternoon of 17 September a sudden downpour struck Florence, with almost five centimetres of rain falling in a single hour. Water made its way into the Uffizi Gallery and dripped onto the case protecting Caravaggio's "Bacchus". A video filmed inside the museum and posted
London · Museums · Heritage · Ethnography
The seventy-metre eleventh-century embroidery of the Norman conquest of England has arrived in London for the first time in almost a thousand years. France has lent it to the British Museum under an intergovernmental agreement for the period from September 2026 to July 2027, while the museum in
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the AZ/ART Contemporary Art Centre at Maroseyka, 11/4c1, a joint exhibition of the AZ Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery is under way. Until 29 November it shows 43 sculptures of the late 1950s and the 1960s from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the AZ Museum and