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London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, commonly known as the V&A, has raised the £2 million (€2.385 million) needed to acquire a 12th-century walrus ivory formerly bound for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York. “The intricate carving is heralded as one of the finest and most important examples of English Romanesque ivory carving to survive today,” the V&A said in a press release, adding that the ‘Deposition from the Cross’ sculpture had been saved “for the nation”. The Met had purchased the sculpture through a private Sotheby’s sale, on the condition that it would be granted an export...
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First opened in 2015, the largely subterranean waterfront museum is famed for French artist Daniel Buren’s vibrantly coloured glass cube, which marks the 6,000-square metre museum’s presence above ground at Malaga’s port. Now, The Art Newspaper reports that the city council has agreed to pay the museum €2.7 million annually from 2025-2029, and €3.1 million from 2030-2034 – in an undoubtedly welcome affirmation of trust in the Pompidou brand. According to the Pompidou Centre, the Malaga museum has attracted more than three million visitors since it opened. News of the deal comes amid a series o...
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A stunning new photography exhibition in Bethnal Green, London, is showcasing the everyday lives of the Bengali community in East London over the past 50 years. Titled 'I Am Who I Am Now', the exhibition brings together intimate family snapshots and striking images of community solidarity, revealing the intricate connection between personal stories and the wider socio-political landscape of the East End. The images are drawn from the Bengali Photo Archive, a new collection of personal and family photographs donated by local people. They are shown alongside work by photographers who have docume...
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The Young V&A, located in Bethnal Green, East London, has won the prestigious Museum of the Year award, securing the £120,000 (€142,000) prize. Formerly known as the Museum of Childhood, the museum reopened in July last year after a three year renovation at a cost of £13 million (€15 million). “The Young V&A has done something completely rare, it’s completely reimagined the museum. It started with its target audience and then it fit all the pieces of the museum – the building, the collection, display, interpretation, exhibitions, learning – around that central focus of young people," says Jenn...
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Israel’s national Holocaust museum has opened a new conservation facility in Jerusalem this week that will preserve, restore and store its more than 45,000 artifacts and works of art. The new building includes five floors of underground storage. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, serves as both a museum and a research institution. It welcomes nearly a million visitors each year, leads the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day and hosts nearly all foreign dignitaries visiting Israel. “Before we opened this building, it was very difficult to exhibit our treasures that were kep...
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The current director general of the Dresden State Museums, Marion Ackermann, has been appointed the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). She will be the first woman to hold the position at the organisation, which oversees Berlin’s state museums. SPK is the largest cultural employer in Germany, with around 2,000 employees and more than 4 million objects across 15 museums in Berlin, in addition to libraries, research institutes, and archives. The changes at SPK go deeper than simply getting a new president – an independent study in 2020 called for a “major overhaul” of t...
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Whether it’s being a president, an astronaut, a fashionista or a doctor, Barbie has done it all. A new exhibition celebrating the iconic doll's 65th anniversary will open at London's Design Museum on Friday 5 July for a seven-month run. The show presents 250 objects from Barbie's world, including 180 dolls spanning seven decades - and Ken and friends also make an appearance. "From the perspective of the Design Museum, what we really wanted to do is to look at Barbie through a design lens," explained the show's curator Danielle Thom. "[What] a lot of people don't know is how these dolls come in...
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France's iconic Pompidou Centre in Paris has called off its plan to open its first US branch in Jersey City – strictly speaking in the state of New Jersey, but considered a suburb of New York – in 2027. The museum says that the project has been "suspended until further notice," confirming reports in the US media. With its financing a source of controversy from the outset, the project’s future was thrown into real jeopardy when local authorities in New Jersey withdrew public funding on Saturday. “While we are honoured that Jersey City was selected as the first North American location for a Cent...
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Paris (AFP) - France's Pompidou Centre, one of the world's leading modern art museums, confirmed on Tuesday that its plan to open a satellite branch in New York had been suspended. The Paris-based museum, known for its colourful and tubular building, was due to open a branch in Jersey City in the suburbs of New York in 2027. But it has been "suspended until further notice," the Pompidou said, confirming a report in US media. Local authorities considered the cost -- which involved some $18 million in public redevelopment funds -- too high, according to a letter they published in the New Jerse...
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