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Music Video Presentation BALAKLAVA BLUES x BELARUS FREE THEATRE — GONE
September 12, 9:57
Canadian-Ukrainian band Balaklava Blues and Belarus Free Theatre present music video Gone, by Ukrainian director Roman Liubyi
Activists detained for forming “2036” with their bodies in Moscow’s Red Square
July 02, 18:29
Police took Pussy Riot members and municipal council members to a police station in Moscow’s Kitay-gorod district
Artist Tania Bruguera detained by Cuban authorities before protest against police violence
July 02, 17:39
Several more people, including artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arts professor Anamely Ramos González and underground rapper Maykel Osorbo, were also detained
Arts workers hold Heritage performance in Art Belarus Gallery
July 02, 17:12
The performance was created by artist Nadya Sayapina
Suspects of stealing Banksy’s artwork from Bataclan detained in Paris
July 01, 13:23
French and Italian police found the artwork in an abandoned farmhouse in the Italian region of Abruzzo.
Belarusian art workers start #Cultprotest
July 01, 12:30
Cultural workers and members of the art community stand against the current political situation in Belarus and call on all people to create protest art
Defendants in Seventh Studio case convicted of fraud and given suspended sentences
June 30, 16:53
Alexei Malobrodsky, Yury Itin and Kirill Serebrennikov will appeal against the verdict of Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court
Donald Trump sings order on increased protection of monuments in US
June 30, 16:45
The new executive order reinforces the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act and provides stricter punishment for vandals
Metropolitan Museum to reopen on August 29 with two exhibitions
June 30, 15:11
The decision of the influential museum may inspire other New York’s art institutions to reopen in late summer
40 people detained in Russia for supporting Yulia Tsvetkova
June 29, 20:04
Protests took place in 20 cities on June 27. All detained people were released later that day
Louvre to transform its “elite image” and move collections online
June 29, 15:54
The museum strives for a "cultural democratisation"
5th edition of Work Hard! Play Hard! runs from June 22 to July 1 remotely due to COVID-19
June 26, 15:21
WORK HARD! PLAY HARD! is a collective self-organised platform dealing with the issues of knowledge production, cooperation, work, leisure, technology and acceleration through various performative, participatory and discursive formats
Five art experts arrested in France in case of looting antiquities from Middle East
June 26, 14:13
“Hundreds of artifacts from the Middle East for tens of millions euros” have been arrested in the case initiated in 2018
Metropolitan Museum staff join movement against systemic racism
June 26, 14:01
They published a collective letter and joined other museums that call to acknowledge facts of white supremacy and systemic racism at work
Guggenheim Museum called for diversity and equitable practices
June 25, 15:46
Curators describe the current situation in the museum as “an inequitable work environment that enables racism, white supremacy, and other discriminatory practices”
Asian Art Museum removes statue of its founding patron due to racist legacy
June 25, 13:22
The museum’s head Jay Xu said the decision was inspired by recent Black Lives Matter protests
Part of Raphael’s 400-year-old work discovered in Italian church
June 25, 12:25
The discovery suggests that Raphael’s idea was to start the setting of the mural with “double pilasters” – real and illusory.
Google Arts & Culture and Royal Academy of Arts digitise over 200 works in high resolution
June 24, 14:07
Users can zoom in on and view details in augmented reality
Boris Johnson says British museums can reopen on July 4, but museums not ready
June 23, 17:54
Major museums welcome the decision to ease restrictions but say they won’t be ready reopen on July 4
Artist Yulia Tsvetkova charged with distributing pornography for her body-positive drawings
June 23, 16:48
A criminal case was opened against the 27-year-old artist in Komsomolsk-on-Amur for her posts in the group “Vagina Monologues”. She faces from two to six years in prison