Artnet News – Polish Museums Are on The Political Front Line

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · February 7, 2020

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‘I Am a Photographer, Not an Artist’: Legendary War Photographer Don McCullin on Why the Distinction Matters

Don McCullin is not afraid of the dark.

The 84-year-old British photographer, who is famed for his haunting images, is best known for his salient photographs of war and conflict, taken around the world. For 60 years, he has reported on battles and destruction, chronicled starvation and inner-city poverty, and traveled the world working for newspapers including the Observer and the Sunday Times Magazine.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 29: Steven Tananbaum participates in a panel discussion during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on April 29, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images)

Billionaire Steven Tananbaum Settles With Gagosian, Ending a Bitter Lawsuit Over Three Long-Delayed Jeff Koons Sculptures

One of the art world’s most conspicuous lawsuits has come to an end.

Last week, billionaire hedge-fund manager and Museum of Modern Art trustee Steven Tananbaum reached a settlement with Gagosian over three long-delayed Jeff Koons sculptures he purchased between 2013 and 2015

An ancient Thracian silver with applied gold Rhyton (drinking horn) dating back from the 4th century BC is seen at “Thrace and the ancient world” exhibition of a private collection at the National museum of history in Sofia on March 21, 2011. The Thracian civilization appeared roughly around the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 4th millennium BC. Thrace was a unifying name for the people living on the territory of modern day Bulgaria, Northern Greece, Western Turkey, Romania, Moldova, South Ukraine, the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia and Serbia. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

A Gaming Billionaire’s Questionable Trove of Ancient Artifacts Is Raided by Bulgarian Authorities

Bulgarian authorities have seized assets belonging to gaming billionaire Vasil Bojkov, including items from his collection of more than 3,000 ancient artifacts housed at the Thrace Foundation, which he founded in 2004. Bojkov himself has also been detained in Dubai.

Artnet News - Polish Museums Are on The Political Front Line

Protester standing in front of banner that speaks ‘ Politicians – Hands off! of the exhibition ‘ is seen on{ day} April 2017 in Gdansk, Poland. Supreme Administrative Court has ruled today that the Minister of Culture can link the Second World War Museum to the existing only on paper Westerplatte Museum. This means de facto liquidation of the 2nd War Museum and the change of its director. (Photo by Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Poland’s Museums Are Taking a Radically Conservative Turn—and the Fight Over Who Gets to Control Them Is Only Beginning

The appointment of conservative firebrand Piotr Bernatowicz is at the center of a growing battle over the future of Poland’s museums.

Police Removed a Work From the India Art Fair on the Suspicion That It Referenced Ongoing Political Protests in Delhi

Political tensions rising across Delhi bubbled to the surface on the last day of the India Art Fair on Sunday, as police shut down a live community artwork installed that afternoon at the booth of the Italian Embassy Culture Centre by Post-Art Project, an art studio founded by Gargi Chandola and Yaman Navlakha.