Op het bouwterrein rond het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is met een Japanse ‘groundbreaking ceremony’ een begin gemaakt met de nieuwbouw van het museum.

Bestuursvoorzitter Toru Nagashima van het Japanse bedrijf Tejin Twaron, dat de kunststof voor de dakconstructie van de nieuwe vleugel van het museum sponsort, zette gisteren de eerste schop in de grond. Hij hoopt met dit Japanse ritueel de bouwgrond te behoeden voor ongelukken.

Lees hele artikel (NRC Handelsblad, 13 april, 2007)

The two Mets — the Metropolitan Museum and the Metropolitan Opera — are collaborating on a cross-marketing initiative, a first for the two institutions.

Read full article (New York Times, April 13, 2007)

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In art, space is a frontier, but there is nothing final about it. It is a complicated, layered place that artists continually explore, manipulate and expand, transforming our understanding of it and of art’s potential too. And the best place to experience recent activity on this frontier is the space walk that is west Chelsea.

Read full article (New York Times, April 13, 2007)

US museums are expanding their contemporary collections to include new media art, with acquisitions of film, video and mixed media installations on the rise in 2006 compared to 2005.

Read full article (The Artnewspaper, April 12, 2007)

A new museum near Cologne houses a collection of the most egregious examples of counterfeit goods

Read full article (Businessweek, March 30, 2007)

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Francois Pinault emerged as the sole candidate to turn a disused Venice customs building into a contemporary-arts center by June 2009 after a rival bid by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was thrown out for being incomplete.

Read full article (Bloomberg April 5, 2007)