Museum Watch Actions

• Ukrainian Museum Director Destroys Critical Painting Ahead Of President’s Visit

  

  July 2013. Natalia Zabolotna’s primary job as director of the Mystetskyi Arsenal art museum in Kyiv was to oversee the pieces under her roof.

• Turkey: Report on Osman Erden & more

  

  July 2013. Our colleague Osman Erden, Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History at Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts and President of AICA, Turkey, was detained for about six hours. He was beaten by the police before the arrest.

• Brazilian uprising

  

  July 2013. Update on current events in Brazil by Luiz Camillo Osorio. Political demonstrations have shaken Brazilian streets in the past two weeks. Driven by public transport issues, they grew dramatically and gained an amazing scale with a series of overlapping demands.

• Urgent call to Turkish government

  

  June 2013. CİMAM is very concerned about the intimidation of cultural actors and intellectuals and of independent voices in Turkey.

• Support Marta Gili, Director of Jeu de Paume

  

  June 2013. CIMAM wishes to express its support to Marta Gili, Director of Jeu de Paume, and the entire team at the Jeu de Paume who have received threats by groups and individuals who oppose the presentation of Ahlam Shibli’s work.

• QR Codes for Syria

  

  March 2013. Róza El-Hassan, artist and activist born in Budapest, of Hungarian and Syrian origin, was asked to write about the present situation of Syrian museums, artists, art spaces and cultural institutions for CIMAM's Contemporary Art Museums Watch.

• Culture Shut Down — Day of Museum Solidarity

  

  February 2013. CULTURESHUTDOWN has initiated a cultural awareness campaign in reaction to the closure of major cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

• Santralistanbul Museum Moves to Auction off its Collection

  

  February 2013. In the process of decommissioning santralistanbul, formerly one of Istanbul´s most celebrated new cultural institutions, Istanbul Bilgi University has broken faith with the art world by putting the works in its collection on the auction block.

• Museum of Latin America Art, Long Beach (MOLAA)

  

  November 2012. Ms. Fajardo-Hill was not fired. Rather, the board simply eliminated the position, along with three other full-time posts as part of a 15% cut in the budget.

• At War with Contemporary Art

  

  June 2012. By Pascal Gielen. The brusque measures taken by the Dutch neo-liberal government against the cultural sector this year have left many flabbergasted. Even more surprising, though, has been the lukewarm reaction of the sector itself.

• Hungarian Museum System – On the Threshold of Chaos

  

  February 2012. By József Mélyi. After the elections in 2010 there were many who were not only counting on the newly established government, with its two-thirds majority, committing themselves to economic reforms but also to long-awaited reforms in the culture institution system – including the public collections.