Following an order from Pope Francis, the Vatican Museums finalized an agreement with Greece to repatriate three fragments of Parthenon sculptures from its collection. The three pieces, including one representing a horse's head, another of a man with a beard and the third of a boy, have been kept in the museum since the 19th century. Learn more here.
The open calls of CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva for the 2023/2024 season are open, in a total of 18 artistic residencies and three technical residencies. Applications can be submitted until March 31.
Climate activists from the "Extinction Rebellion" demonstrated at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum in front of Rembrandt's famous masterpiece "The Night Watch". Learn more in this article.
Antique stores can offer a treasure to anyone with a keen eye, but rarely do you find objects as undervalued as a rare Alberto Giacometti chandelier. Learn more here.
This Saturday, March 4, Pinacoteca de São Paulo inaugurated a new building: Pina Contemporânea, which will now display the institution's contemporary art collection. The new building is located in the center of São Paulo, just 80 meters from the main museum and, with the addition, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo complex becomes the second largest museum in Latin America, second only to the Museu Nacional de Antropologia do Mexico. Learn more here.
As part of the commemorations of the 480th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, a work by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils was unveiled in the new premises of the Embassy of Portugal in Japan with the presence of the Ambassador of Portugal in Japan, Vítor Sereno, the Portuguese artist, Alexandre Farto, and the President of Cunha Vaz & Associados, António Cunha Vaz.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has reclassified Kazimir Malevich as a Ukrainian. Malevich is usually described as Russian. A spokesperson for the Stedelijk Museum says that "now we communicate [about Malevich]: born in Ukraine of parents of Polish origin". Learn more here.
Until April 28, applications for training grants outside Portugal in the areas of visual arts, theatre, dance, music and cinema, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, are open. Learn more in this article.
At Sotheby's in London on Wednesday night, a recently restored 1910 painting by Wassily Kandinsky sold in a single offer for a record $44.9 million, Scott Reyburn reported in the New York Times. Learn more here.
Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual will celebrate 50 years of activity with an exhibition of 60 works by different artists, some of them unpublished, in various supports, and a documentary installation, to be inaugurated on March 7th, in Lisbon.
the portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos installed, at the invitation of the haute couture brand Dior, one of its monumental Valkyries at the show that took place yesterday in Paris, dedicated to the women's collection for the autumn/winter 2023-2024 season. Learn more here.
A painting by artist Sonia Delaunay painted in Portugal is up for auction in London with an estimate close to one million euros, as part of a sale of works of modern and impressionist art. Learn more here.
An exemplary canvas by American artist Robert Colescott was acquired by the Art Bridges Foundation for $4.5 million at Bonham's Los Angeles on Friday. Learn more here.
The Pompidou Center in Paris announced that it had purchased eighteen NFTs from thirteen renowned artists. Learn more here.