Museums
Museums in Belgium and Italy to re-open mid-May under phased lifting of lockdown
Belgian museum director says his institution is “ready to serve as a test room”
Social Issues
We Don’t Need To Re-Create Our Museum Visits, Ballet Performances, Or Anything Else Online
It’s a pandemic. Could we back off a little? (And virtual tours of museums are simply not that enjoyable.)
Crime & Theft
Convicted art fraudster Ezra Chowaiki subject of yet more legal drama
(United States of America; Spain) The Art Newspaper, 15th May 2020.
Archaeology, Artifacts & Antiquities
A ‘Byzantine Pompeii’, Discovered By, And Now Threatened By, Subway Construction
“At stake [in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city,] is not one building or artefact but the entire central junction of the city as it existed in late Roman times: a covered, colonnaded space where carriages once rattled past.
Fine Art
Coronavirus might be limiting our travels but one painting is still on the move (somewhere)
Terry Frost’s work, which was last seen on a train between London Euston and Crewe, joins a long list of disappearances associated with public transport
War, Looting and Repatriation
Man who spent his life hunting down stolen Nazi art dies from COVID-19
(United States of America) The Jerusalem Post, 17th May 2020.
