British Museum Will Move Thousands of Objects to New Facility
August 21, 2019 | In the PressFrom ArtNews (http://www.artnews.com/2019/08/21/british-museum-klaus-biesenbach-morning-links/)
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver has appointed Nora Burnett Abrams, who previously served as curator and director of planning at the museum, as its new director. [ARTnews]
In an open letter, more than 120 artists, curators, dealers, and other arts professionals decried the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation’s plans to deaccession works from its collection. [ARTnews]
The British Museum will move hundreds of thousands of objects in its collection to a new £64 million ($77.6 million) storage and research facility in Shinfield, England. The British Museum Archaeological Research Collection—or BM Arc, as it’s being abbreviated—will open in 2023. [The Art Newspaper]