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Cuban and Norwegian became the best cartoonists

24.04.2012 Cuban illustrator Aristide Hernandez and Norwegian artist Egil Nihus received the highest award of the eighth World Press Cartoon contest, which features cartoons from newspapers from around the world.

Canvases burn in Italy

23.04.2012 In southern Italy, works of art are burned in protest. Casoria, a city of 83,000 inhabitants located just 10 kilometers from Naples, witnessed the artist and director of the Museum of Modern Art (CAM), Antonio Manfredi, mourning "an absolute lack of attention to cultural institutions", decided to burn 1,000 works.

Museum of the History of Navigation opens in Tallinn

20.04.2012 In Tallinn, the branch of the Maritime Museum - Lennusadam, is preparing to open. Here, the sailing history of the Baltic states of the times of the Russian Empire and the USSR will be presented to visitors.

Three new exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Porto

20.04.2012 The Serralves Museum of Modern Art in Porto (Portugal) has just opened three new exhibitions dedicated to artists Arthur Barrio, Ricardo Valentim and Mathieu Abonnek.

Italy may say goodbye to the Museum of Modern Art

19.04.2012 Many Italian museums are in serious crisis due to a significant budget cut in the field of culture. The latter case is the serious problems faced by the XXI century Roman Museum of Modern Art, Maxxi. It was opened a little more than two years ago and its leadership makes serious accusations against the Minister of Cultural Property of Italy.

Argentina and France united by color

18.04.2012 "Color. User manual ”, curator of the exhibition Philip Kirownik collected works by artists from France and Argentina to contrast seven different ways of approach and attitude to color. It was the search for color that became the ideological core of the exhibition, which opened this week in Vasari (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Sacred herb with the blood of Mahatma Gandhi

18.04.2012 The grass on which the blood of the murdered Mahatma Gandhi dried up was sold for 12,000 pounds ($ 12,127 / € 19,116) by the Mullock auction house in the city of Stretton (central England).

Guggenheim in New York will support artists from developing countries

17.04.2012 The Guggenheim Museum in New York and the UBS Asset Management Organization have signed a cultural cooperation agreement that specifically decided to support artists and sculptors from South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa to expand the boundaries of contemporary art.

Robert Cramb’s exhibition opened the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

15.04.2012 The Museum of Modern Art in Paris paid tribute to Robert Crumb, a satirical artist, master of the comic underground, as part of a comprehensive retrospective of the American author.