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Amsterdam dispatch. curator Beatrice Ruffformer director City Museum Got a new job in the Dutch capital.according to art newspapershe will now lead a New private museum in Amsterdam from Hartwig Art Foundation, which commissions and acquires art for the country’s national collection. Little is known about the currently unnamed museum, other than that it will focus on “all media of the visual arts, time-based art and future art forms”.This is Ruf’s latest work, he Leaving Municipal Stadium in 2017 In an allegation of conflict of interest, who Garage Museum of Contemporary Art She worked in Moscow until March of this year, when her contract expired. “It was a coincidence – but if there was no war, I would have continued to work with the garage,” she told Art Newspaper.

Renaissance art. a major Leonardo da Vinci Painting travels to the UAE (no, it’s not that. ) This The country’s It is reported that one of Leonardo’s masterpieces, St John the BaptistYes Take a rare voyage from its home Louvre In Paris to the satellite of the museum in Abu Dhabi. “I have to say I’m very touched,” Manuel RabatThis Louvre Abu Dhabisaid the director.On the other side of the world, Renaissance paintings have made their way to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where an exhibition revolves around Botticelli and Florence of that era Include works from Uffizi Gallery in Italy. “Thinking about COVID and the turmoil that the city has gone through, I think it’s closely related to the development of a new visual language during the Renaissance,” said the director of the Uffizi Gallery. Eike Schmidt told star tribune.

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Indonesia has formally asked the Netherlands to hand over eight works of art and objects it says were acquired during the colonial era. Among the items requested to be returned were “Javanese”, the remains of primitive people who lived in Leiden. [Agence France-Presse/Barron’s]

This guardianof Jeff Sparrow solved one recent protests This involved throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting and writing: “No one was hurt. No art was damaged. Yet conservatives everywhere lost their collective consciousness.” [The Guardian]

April, London Design Museum quietly deleted Sackler the name in its library. It was the last museum in the British capital to do so, meaning no other institution there now bears the Sackler name. [Evening Standard]

After discovering a gallery in Moscow, Iraj,Appear in International Parisukrainian collective substructure Exit the art fair. Iragui’s owner said she felt “sad that they are breaking all bridges and dialogue is not possible.” [Artnet News]

artist Mary Mattingly Reply contain‘s “21 Questions,” including one about something hanging on her couch. [Curbed]

surface Venture into Gagosian dealers and curators Antwan SargentBirthday party in London last week.Photographers are among the participants Taylor Mitchell and gallerists Hannah Traore. [Surface]

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Thieves like us. Who among us doesn’t love gallery hopping? A group of young thieves on New York’s Lower East Side last weekend seemed to like it a little too much.according to artnet newsseveral galleries, including Betty Cunningham and De Rossia, was looted and “handbags, earplugs and credit cards” were taken from workers, who were managed to distract by thieves. In Betty Cunningham’s case, a wallet was stolen from behind the front desk and, within 20 minutes, a credit card was charged thousands of dollars. Thankfully, the thief didn’t manage to walk away with any artwork. [Artnet News]