Pandemic casts dark shadow over International Museum Day 1 minute read
Madrid, May 17 (EFE).- This year’s International Museum Day reflects the industry’s crisis after the coronavirus pandemic forced museums around the world to close their doors.
Normally a festive affair, this year’s edition, marked on May 18, carries the title The Future of Museums: Recovering and Reimagining, an indication of the challenges that lay ahead for the industry as the world emerges from the pandemic.
With restrictions still in place in many countries, nearly half of the world’s museums remain closed, according to the International Council of Museums.
Disputed Kandinsky won t be returned to Jewish heirs
A court has decided that an Amsterdam museum can keep a painting sold by the Lewenstein family during Nazi occupation, raising questions about art restitution.
Kandinsky s Painting With Houses
An Amsterdam court has ruled on Wednesday that the city’s Stedelijk Museum does not have to return the 1909 painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of its original Jewish owners. The work by the avant-garde artist, titled
Painting with Houses, was sold to the museum in October 1940, five months after the German Wehrmacht took over the Netherlands.
The Amsterdam art museum bought