Pratiksha Shome Italy recently showed 750 artefacts that its Culture Ministry and heritage police agents had taken from the shut down business of convicted art dealer Robin Symes, believed to be worth $12.9 million. Clay vases, garment components, precious metals and jewels, weapons, tools, furniture, sarcophagi, burial urns, intricate mosaics, painted decorations, and a range […]

Pratiksha Shome According to a recent study released last week by Bénédicte Savoy and Albert Gouaffo, professors at the Technische Universität in Berlin and the University of Dschang in Cameroon, respectively, German museums house 40,000 artefacts from Cameroon, more than any other museum collection worldwide, including the state collections of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé. Researchers from

Pratiksha Shome During production, Greta Gerwig’s  Barbie movie needed so much pink paint that the entire global inventory of one firm was depleted. In an interview with Architectural Digest, Gerwig and the movie’s production designer Sarah Greenwood discussed how Barbieland was built, which is nearly entirely bright pink, including the life-size replicas of the doll’s

Pratiksha Shome With 650,000 visitors from 113 countries over the course of its 16-week run, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is describing its Vermeer show as “the most successful in its history.” The show was the biggest ever devoted to Vermeer and included 28 of his works. Among those pieces were well-known paintings like The Milkmaid

Pratiksha Shome Environmentalists have hailed the British Museum’s decision to sever its 27-year collaboration with the fossil fuel firm BP as a win. After decades of philanthropic links with organisations like the Tate and the National Portrait Gallery, this represents BP’s abrupt exit from the British art scene. There are no further contracts or agreements