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.
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3 weeks ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley
Marion Ackermann is stepping into Germany’s biggest museum job at a time of great upheaval at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation—a culture behemoth encompassing 2,400 employees and 25 libraries, archives, research institutes and museums housing more than five million objects in Berlin. Ackermann succeeds Hermann Parzinger, who retires after 17 years as president of the foundation (known by its German initials SPK), and she will be the first woman in the role.
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1 month ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley
The German government and the states of Berlin and Brandenburg have settled a 100-year-old dispute with descendants of the Hohenzollerns, the kings of Prussia, over the ownership of royal treasures including art, furniture, porcelain, glass and books in museum collections in Berlin and Potsdam.
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1 month ago |
theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley
A new museum in a village on the western fringe of Chemnitz, past stables where horses munch placidly on hay, honours one of this eastern German city’s most famous sons: the artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, a founder of the Brücke group of Expressionists. The 1905 founding of the Brücke in a disused shoemaker’s shop in Dresden by four young artists determined to shock the bourgeoisie out of its complacency is a widely recognised milestone in the history of German art.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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Unknown works by the Brücke artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff go on show in a new museum on the outskirts of Chemnitz, where he grew up https://t.co/KDzcOy93Zv
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
