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James Rondeau Returns as Director of Art Institute of Chicago Following Plane Incident

James Rondeau. TNS James Rondeau will return as director of the Art Institute of Chicago following reports that he had undressed on a plane to Germany. CBS News first reported the news on Thursday. Rondeau had taken a voluntary leave from the museum’s top post, which he has held since 2016. According to CBS, he …

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Centre Pompidou to Open New Brazil Satellite, the Museum’s First in South America

Iguazu Falls. AFP via Getty Images While its Paris home base closes for five years to undergo a renovation, the Centre Pompidou will expand its international reach, opening its first South American space in 2027. Scheduled to launch in November 2027, the new location in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, will be one of several satellites …

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Met Museum Returns Three Antiquities to Iraq Connected to Art Dealer Robin Symes

Vessel supported by two rams. Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it will return three ancient sculptures to Iraq, dating from 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. They are estimated to be collectively worth $500,000. The items are a Sumerian vessel …

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Crystal Bridges Acquires Monumental Tiffany Studios Stained-Glass Window from a Texas Church

Tiffany Studios, designed by Agnes Northrop, Mountain Landscape (Root Memorial Window), 1917. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, acquired a monumental landscape stained-glass window created by Tiffany Studios, marking the first window of its kind to enter the museum’s collection. Measuring approximately nine feet tall by …

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Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands Launches Campaign Against the Guggenheim Museum Expansion in Spain

The exterior view of the Guggenheim Museum designed by architect Frank Gehry in Bilbao, Spain. Photo Joaquin Gomez Sastre / NurPhoto via Getty Images The Mediterranean Alliance for Wetlands launched a campaign to protect the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve from an extension of the Guggenheim Museum, which has been trying to expand its Bilbao outpost. “A …

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Chinese Collector and Philanthropist to Open New Nonprofit Art Space in London’s Bloomsbury District

Yan Du, the founder of YDP, says the project happened “very organically.” courtesy YDP This October, Chinese collector and philanthropist Yan Du will open a new nonprofit space supporting artists from Asian backgrounds in London’s Bloomsbury district. Called Yan Du Projects (YDP), it is located in a huge, Grade 1-listed, 18th-century Georgian townhouse in Bedford …

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LA’s Fowler Museum Returns 11 Objects to Australia’s Larrakia Community

Four of the ten glass spearheads being returned by the Fowler Museum. Courtesy of the Fowler Museum, UCLA The Fowler Museum at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently returned 11 objects to an Aboriginal community in Northern Australia. A kangaroo tooth headband and 10 glass spearheads, some of which are more than 100 …

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