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Why Is This Museum’s New Logo a Pigeon Pooping?How to represent a city as old, sprawling, and populous as London? The London Museum shocked the internet when it debuted its new logo: a humble pigeon who, as the locals might say, has just gone to the loo. Looking a bit less dingy grey than usual, the gleaming white porcelain pigeon is…
Revamped National Portrait Gallery among contenders for museum of the yearThe National Portrait Gallery, the Manchester Museum and the Young V&A are among the contenders for this year’s museum of the year award, as institutions that have undergone extensive renovations and reappraised their collections dominate the shortlist.
Frieze Acquires The Armory Show and EXPO CHICAGOFurther expanding its presence in the US market, Frieze has acquired two of the country's longest-running art fairs
Plans announced for the Museum of Shakespeare in ShoreditchPlans for a new Shakespeare museum have been revealed, to be created in Shoreditch within the archaeological remains of The Curtain Playhouse, the site of some of Shakespeare’s first plays.
Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTsThe Centre Pompidou has announced the acquisition of a series of 18 NFTs from 13 prominent French and international artists. The works are set to join France's national collection of modern and contemporary art, one that has been acquiring pioneering "new media" art since the late 1970s, including…
The Smithsonian and MTV are launching a reality television art competitionThe Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC is launching a reality competition art show, The Exhibit: Finding The Next Great Artist, which will air both on MTV and the Smithsonian Channel. The winner of The Exhibit will win $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the…