BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington has announced a $1.5 million gift from an anonymous donor to establish the Tanner-Operman Chair, in Honor of Roy Sieber, within the Department of Art History. Roy Sieber,…
Pledge by European museums to set up “permanent display” of rotating loans in Benin City could pave way for restitution. A group of major cultural institutions in the UK and Europe, including the British Museum, will meet in the Netherlands…
The Musée Dapper in Paris will close its doors next month, with officials citing high costs and low attendance as reasons for shutting the privately funded, non-profit museum of traditional and contemporary African art. The institution moved to its current…
There have been persistent attempts, in recent years, to link the universally applauded efforts to enforce elephant conservation, with calls to ban the movement of historic works of art made of or containing, ivory. These debates are frequently fractious, and…
This fall the Fleming Museum of Art presents the exhibition Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic, drawn from the Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Collection (SABA) at Duke University. This collection is the product of 35 years…
London gallery to bring together 250 objects, including canoes, god figures and feast bowls, for landmark show in its 250th anniversary year This 19th-century feast bowl from the Solomon Islands, which is nearly 7 metres long, will form part of…
Het Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen en het Wereldmuseum Rotterdam tekenden een samenwerkingsovereenkomst, die het Wereldmuseum vanaf nu onder de paraplu brengt van het Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, dat verder bestaat uit het Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum en Museum Volkenkunde. Met deze…
