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Unofficial Art of the 1980s in Open Storage and a Critique of the Curatorial Concept

The Garage Museum opens a new season of open storage with "Art on the Frequency of the 1980s", running until 23 September. I did not attend the guided tour, only chatted with friends, but that will not stop me from dissecting the curatorial conception. First, given that we

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Exhibition to reunite Mondrian's last two boogie-woogie works after over thirty years

MoMA announces "Mondrian Boogie Woogie", running from 21 March to 31 July 2027 and the first survey of Piet Mondrian's New York works. A Dutchman, one of the pioneers of abstraction and co-founder of De Stijl, the international association for non-representational art, Mondrian fled

Archaeology · Museums · Heritage

Theft of the Coțofenești gold helmet from a museum in Assen, its return and the sentencing

In January 2025 three robbers blew open a door of the Drents Museum in Assen in the Netherlands and made off with the golden helmet of Coțofenești and three bracelets. All the objects had been lent to the museum by Romania for the exhibition “Dacia: Empire of Gold and Silver”

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The famous Bayeux Tapestry, created in the eleventh century for Bishop Odo, brother of William the Conqueror, will leave France for an exhibition at the British Museum

Historically, the tapestry (in essence a piece of linen embroidery almost 70 metres long) has been kept in the Norman town of Bayeux as a monument to the Norman conquest of England. The other day a French court permitted the temporary transportation of this fragile relic to Great Britain, despite

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Five exhibitions of 2026, from Renaissance Madonnas to a Viktor Kalinin retrospective

The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and

Art · Moscow · Museums

Chagall's Panels, Painted for a Hall That Is Long Gone, Return to the Tretyakov Gallery's Display

In 1920 Marc Chagall painted the auditorium of the State Jewish Chamber Theatre, the future GOSET. The central canvas, "Introduction to the Jewish Theatre" (canvas, tempera, gouache, 284 by 787 cm), occupied the main wall. Beside it came "Love on the Stage", the frieze "The

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After Leonardo da Vinci's death, his manuscripts first passed to his last pupil, Francesco Melzi

After Leonardo da Vinci's death, his manuscripts first passed to his last pupil, Francesco Melzi. But years later Melzi's children decided to sell the da Vinci archives, and they were acquired by the Tuscan sculptor Pompeo Leoni. Leoni reassembled part of the notebooks, unstitched the quires,

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AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art opens "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zheludь timed to the exact anniversary of the artist's death

The AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art has opened "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zhelud, assembled to coincide exactly with the anniversary of the artist's death. Paintings, objects and installations spanning twenty-five years, among them early works of 2000-2001 that the public

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Kahlo, Renoir, Raphael and Duchamp among nine summer exhibitions in London, Paris and New York

If your holiday happens to land you in one of the three art capitals, here are three exhibitions for each, worth carving out half a day for. London 🎨 Frida: The Making of an Icon. Tate Modern, from 22 June. More than 130 works by Frida Kahlo and a separate strand

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"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right

"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right. From 3 June to 27 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art on Delegatskaya Street is showing a large retrospective of the work of the world-famous

Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

Painting by Jacques Stella, unsold at auction, donated to the Louvre in 2023

Five years ago I watched this seventeenth-century "Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist", attributed to the French painter Jacques Stella, go under the hammer and fail to sell at an estimate of 60,000 to 90,000 euros. Today I see the

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris

According to tradition, the noble and learned Catherine sought a bridegroom who would surpass her in wealth, wisdom and beauty

According to tradition, the noble and learned Catherine sought a bridegroom who would surpass her in wealth, wisdom and beauty. A hermit monk told her that he knew just such a young man: Jesus. After she received baptism, Catherine was granted a vision of the Virgin with the Child. Christ