van Gogh sketchbook found
A sketchbook thought to have been Vincent van Gogh’s has been found in Greece.
Taken by a Greek resistance fighter from a Nazi train, the sketchbook was discovered in storage boxes by his daughter, who is seeking to establish its authenticity with the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. (Via Reuters)
Museum Attendance Drops in Sweden
Visits to Sweden’s national museums dropped nearly 20 percent last year after they ended their free admissions policy, The culture ministry said that Sweden’s 19 national museums, 16 of them in Stockholm, recorded some 6.5 million visits in 2007, down from around 8.0 million a year earlier. The decline came after Sweden’s government pushed through new admission fees to the museums starting on Jan. 1, 2007, two years after the previous government had removed the fees. (Via the New York Times)
Galleries continue to expand to the Lower East Side
bloggy.com reports that DCKT Contemporary will reopen on the Lower East Side, around the 3rd week of March. The first show will be a solo exhibition by Josh Azzarella, his first in NYC.