© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A small banner reading: “Responsible Business Initiative – Yes on November 29” is fixed to the frame of a bicycle in Zurich By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss firms narrowly avoided facing greater liability for human rights and environmental abuses on Sunday after a national vote rejected the proposal […]
Employees of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston on Friday voted 133 to 14 to unionize, becoming one the newest bargaining units at a major US arts institution. The staff of the MFA will join the United Auto Workers, which is additionally home to unionized workers of the Museum of Modern Art and […]
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Trump and Trudeau meet at the NATO summit in Watford By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Saturday blocked bulk exports of prescription drugs if they would create a shortage at home, in response to outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to allow imports from Canada to lower some drug […]
Francesco Polenghi, a painter whose unusual life course meant that his public career as an artist began only when he was in his late sixties, has died in his hometown of Milan, Italy, at the age of eighty-four, a victim of the Covid-19 pandemic.Coming from a family that had found success in the dairy industry, […]
3/3 © Reuters. EU chief Brexit negotiator Barnier is seen in London 2/3 LONDON (Reuters) – Face-to-face negotiations between Britain and the European Union over a trade deal restarted on Saturday, in a last-ditch attempt to find agreement with just five weeks to go before their current relationship ends. EU negotiator Michel Barnier arrived for […]
UK finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will receive a 2.3 percent boost in spending for the fiscal year beginning in April 2021, The Art Newspaper reports. That means a total of $426 million set aside for arts institutions, many of which were not eligible […]
© Reuters. A bank employee counts pound notes at Kasikornbank in Bangkok LONDON (Reuters) – More than 200 British retail investors have lost nearly 10 million pounds ($13.4 million) in total to sophisticated investment scams since a government lockdown in March to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a trade body said on Saturday. Fraudsters cloned genuine […]
Berlin’s long, long-awaited Humboldt Forum, which has been under construction for nearly a decade, will livestream views of its rooms and exhibitions beginning at 7 p.m. on December 16, according to The Art Newspaper. The institution had been expected to begin its phased public opening on December 17, but those plans were scuttled owing to […]
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York City 2/2 1/MORE PITFALLS It has been a year many would prefer to forget and a month of 2020 still remains — one replete with events that could trip up markets. Here […]
Fatos Üstek has resigned from her position as director of the Liverpool Biennial after seventeen months on the job in the wake of a disagreement with the biennial’s board of trustees. Board members Fiona Banner and John Sharples resigned in support of Üstek. According to Artnews, all three left in October after Üstek and the […]
