Rijksmuseum

The Mauritshuis in The Hague has appointed Martine Gosselink as its next general director. She currently serves as the head of history at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. During her tenure, she oversaw research into the provenance of objects in the Rijksmuseum’s colonial collections, the institution’s acquisition policy, and various programs.…

“We got scammed!” said a London art dealer after business email compromise (BEC) scammers inserted themselves into a months-long conversation about the sale of a £2.4 million (USD $3.1 million) John Constable painting, spoofing their emails to make it look like the messages came from Simon C. Dickinson Ltd. “No,…

Hackers intercepted talks between an art dealer and a Dutch museum to scam the museum out of millions, and while they walked away with their ill-begotten proceeds, the victims are now fighting over who is responsible.  As reported by Bloomberg, London-based veteran art dealer Simon Dickinson and Rijksmuseum Twenthe were…

Art lovers now have more than 100,000 works of art from Paris museums at their fingertips to download and use as they please, courtesy of a recently announced initiative from the Paris Musées. In an effort to make its massive catalog of art more accessible t…

Robert Delaunay, (1885-1941), Rythm n°2, décor for the Salon des Tuileries, 1938, oil painting, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (Image: Paris Musées) Art lovers now have more than 100,000 works of art from Paris museums at their fingertips to download and use as they please, courtesy of…