Catherine Hickley

1 week ago | artnewspaper.fr | Catherine Hickley

L’Union chrétienne-démocrate (UDC) dirigée par Friedrich Merz a désigné Wolfram Weimer, un journaliste conservateur, au poste de ministre de la Culture. Ce fondateur d’un magazine politique et d’une maison d’édition prendra ses fonctions simultanément avec l’entrée en fonction du nouveau gouvernement allemand, la semaine prochaine. Les chrétiens-démocrates et l’Union chrétienne-sociale (CSU), leur parti allié en Bavière, ont remporté de nombreux sièges lors des élections allemandes de février.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Alison Cole |Helen Stoilas |Catherine Hickley

In the first 100 days of his second term, the administration of US President Donald Trump wasted no time enacting a plan to force the cultural sector into ideological conformity. A slew of drastic and possibly unconstitutional executive actions have pushed cultural institutions—including museums, libraries, performing arts and educational institutions—to a critical moment of reckoning.

2 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union has named Wolfram Weimer, a conservative journalist who founded a political magazine and publishing company, to serve as the culture minister in a new German government expected to take office next week. Merz’s Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, won the largest share of the votes in February’s election but not enough to rule alone.

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley

The foundation that oversees the troubled Bührle collection says it has reached a settlement with the heirs of a Jewish collector that allows an important painting by Édouard Manet to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich. Manet’s La Sultane, painted in around 1871, is one of about 200 works that have been on loan from the collection to the Kunsthaus since 2012.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley

An escalating crisis at the Bavarian State Painting Collections, which began as a scandal over how the museum authority handles Nazi-looted art, has prompted the departure of its director, Bernhard Maaz, and led the Munich state prosecutor to open a preliminary investigation. Maaz’s resignation was announced at a press conference last week by Markus Blume, the state’s culture minister. “He has cleared the way for a new beginning, which is urgently necessary,” Blume said.