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Article date: Monday, July 29, 2019

Fire Breaks out in Frankfurt MMK Modern Art Museum

Firefighters in Frankfurt were combating a blaze at the famous Frankfurt's Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art or MMK) on Monday. The building had been closed for renovations when passers-by reported smoke. German police opened an investigation into a fire.

Article date: Saturday, July 27, 2019

Counterfeit Suspicion: Miró Show in Munich Cancelled at the Last Minute

Disappointment in the Künstlerhaus at Munich’s Lenbachplatz: A large summer exhibition of prints by the Catalunian artist Joan Miró has been cancelled, as French experts discover potentially counterfeit works amongst the exhibit.

Article date: Friday, July 26, 2019

Tear Gas Manufacturer Warren Kanders Steps Down from Whitney Board

The embattled executive in question, Warren B. Kanders, has stepped down as vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Times reports.

Article date: Thursday, July 25, 2019

New Threat To Fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral: Heat Wave

Paris (AP) - The chief architect of France's historic monuments says he's afraid that the heat wave sweeping Europe could cause the vaulted ceilings of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral to collapse. Dozens of sensors dotted around the 12th-century monument have shown no indication that it's deteriorating, but architect Philippe Villeneuve is worried.

Article date: Monday, July 22, 2019

Beautiful Mosaic Dated To Graeco-Roman Times Discovered In Alexandria, Egypt

The ancient urban complex of Kom el-Dikka has been excavated by Poland’s Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology (CAS since 1960. Polish archaeologists work in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. Kom el-Dikka is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt. Now an important archaeological site, Kom Al Dikka was a well-off residential area in Graeco-Roman times, with impressive villas, bathhouses and a theatre.

Article date: Sunday, July 21, 2019

A Passion for Montmartre, The Weisman-Michel Collection : Valadon, Steinlen, Ibels

The Weisman-Michel Collection is a unique, private collection which focuses on the work of artists at the end-of-the-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century who lived and/or worked in Montmartre or whose art reflects the avant-garde “spirit of Montmartre.”

Article date: Saturday, July 20, 2019

Original Bauhaus at Berlinische Galerie

The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for 100 years its ideas have now been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Marking the centenary of the Bauhaus’s founding, the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung’s exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie is presenting famous, familiar and forgotten Bauhaus originals and recounting the history behind the objects.

Article date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Musee d'Orsay Exhibits 'Degas at the Opera'

Throughout his entire career, from his debut in the 1860s up to his final works after 1900, the Opera formed the focal point of Degas’ output. It was his “own room”. He explored the theatre’s various spaces - auditorium and stage, boxes, foyers, and dance studios - and followed those who frequented them: dancers, singers, orchestral musicians, audience members, and black-attired subscribers lurking in the wings. This closed world presented a microcosm of infinite possibilities allowing all manner of experimentations: multiple points of view, contrasts of lighting, the study of motion and the precision of movement.

Article date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Frieder Burda, Art Collector & Founder of Museum Frieder Burda, Dies Aged 83

Art collector and patron Frieder Burda has died at the age of 83. Burda made a name for himself as an entrepreneur and avid art collector. In 2004 he opened the private Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, southwest Germany. It houses more than 700 works of modern and contemporary art with a particular focus on German Expressionism and American Abstract Expressionism. The building was designed by architecht Richard Meier.

Article date: Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Tate Acquires Art Archive of Ithell Colquhoun, Transferred by the National Trust

Tate has acquired a significant body of archives and artworks by British surrealist artist, Ithell Colquhoun, gifted by the National Trust. The collection of approximately 5,000 sketches, drawings and commercial artwork covering Colquhoun’s career from the 1930s-1980s, which she bequeathed to the National Trust, reunites her work with the bequest of occult and other papers she left to Tate in 1989.

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