Antwerp

KMSKA, which has just reopened after its own restoration, is restoring two Michaelina Wautier paintings.

That is not an approach the museum’s board and executives took when it came to restoring KMSKA itself. Now, thanks to a grant of €25,000 from the Tefaf art fair’s Museum Restoration Fund, the scorched painting is going to be re-restored, fixing faded colours too. It awards €50,000 annually and this year’s other bursary goes to the Neue Galerie in New York for Egon Schiele’s “Town among Greenery (The Old City III)” from 1917.