Catherine Hickley
Museums and Heritage Editor at The Art Newspaper
Contributor at The New York Times
Museums & heritage editor @TheArtNewspaper. Writer, often @nytimesarts. Author of The Munich Art Hoard.
Articles
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2 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Elena Goukassian |Claire Voon |Catherine Hickley
The Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey has revealed that, after ten years of planning and construction, its new home will finally open to the public on 31 October. Its new 146,000-sq.-ft home, which doubles the museum’s former space (demolished in 2021), will host a 24-hour community open house to celebrate.
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1 month ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Catherine Hickley
A new chapter has opened in a bitter 17-year battle for the Guelph Treasure, one of the most valuable art troves claimed by the heirs of Jewish victims of Nazi rule, after the discovery of documents in a German archive indicating that its sale in 1935 was made under duress. The trove, estimated to be worth $300 million, consists of gem-encrusted medieval ecclesiastical artifacts, primarily reliquaries and crosses.
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1 month ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley |Gareth Harris
The Pohwith winter drum is sacred to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe. They play, pray and dance around the instrument, which is fashioned from cottonwood and white-tailed deerskin. Yet, since being wrongfully acquired by the Dutch collector Herman F.C. Ten Kate in 1882, the drum has mostly sat noiselessly in dark cabinets in the Netherlands.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Catherine Hickley
A new chapter has opened in a bitter 17-year battle for the Guelph Treasure, one of the most valuable art troves claimed by the heirs of Jewish victims of Nazi rule, after the discovery of documents in a German archive indicating that its sale in 1935 was made under duress. The trove, estimated to be worth $300 million, consists of gem-encrusted medieval ecclesiastical artifacts, primarily reliquaries and crosses.
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The Bavarian State Painting Collections are in turmoil after the director quit and the prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation. This was all triggered by a newspaper report saying the organisation was hiding research on Nazi-looted art. https://t.co/c5lWntusQg
A new chapter has opened in a 17-year dispute over the Guelph Treasure, one of the most valuable troves claimed by the heirs of Jewish victims of Nazi rule, after the discovery of archive documents suggesting it was sold under duress. https://t.co/x2exNtDM11
Facing accusations of hiding Nazi loot, Bavaria pledges greater transparency and more research. @SZ_Kultur has been on its case. https://t.co/Hyt8rjPaA7
