Jarman Award goes to Oreet Ashery | Artist Oreet Ashery has been named as the winner of the 2017 Film London Jarman Award, an annual prize for UK-based moving image artists. Vatican Museums director Barbara Jatta described art at yesterday’s conference in Rome as an ‘extraordinary vehicle for dialogue’, while CCIF head Zhu Jiancheng expressed his hope that the exchange would ‘contribute to the normalisation of diplomatic relations’.

The new exchange initiative will see 40 works from the Vatican’s collection of Chinese objects go on display at the Beijing Forbidden City, at the same time as an exhibition at the Vatican’s Anima Mundi ethnological museum of 40 pieces from China. Since 1951, the People’s Republic of China has been estranged from the Holy See due to disagreements over the communist state’s sovereignty, and negotiations between the two powers continue to falter. Vatican and China announce diplomatic exchange of artworks | The Vatican museums and the Chinese government-sponsored China Culture Industrial Investment Fund (CCIF) yesterday announced plans for the first-ever exchange of artworks for public display between China and the Vatican, as part of a cultural exchange initiative designed to improve diplomatic relations between the two states. Our daily round-up of news from the art world

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