The exhibition ‘The road to Van Eyck’ with masterpieces from early Southern Netherlands and Burgundian painting from around 1400 will definitely take place.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen still does not have the 1.3 million necessary, but is ready – now that five hundred thousand has been promised – to take the leap and plan this exhibition for the end of this year.

As of 1 January, the Italian curator Francesco Stocchi will boost Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s curatorial team as curator of modern and contemporary art. Stocchi has been active for several years as a curator, writer and publisher. Director Sjarel Ex: ‘Stocchi’s appointment underpins the museum’s ambitions in the field of international art.’

The Art Institute of Chicago announced today that Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Martha Tedeschi–both accomplished Art Institute curators with specialties in earlier prints and drawings and American modern prints and drawings, respectively–have been appointed to key positions within the Department of Prints and Drawings.

John Peter Nilsson has been appointed director of Moderna Museet Malmö. He currently works as a curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and will take up his new position on 1 March, 2012.

Tokujin Yoshioka is participating in the renovation project of the Impressionist gallery in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Tokujin has pondered a plan to exhibit his glass bench “Water block” in this gallery, displaying master works of Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, and Renoir.