Art · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
Romania demands return of El Greco painting owned by Dmitry Rybolovlev. In February of this year the auction house Christie’s withdrew from sale El Greco’s “Saint Sebastian” after the Romanian authorities declared that the painting had been unlawfully taken out of the country. The canvas was acquired by
Archive · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The evacuation of museum collections from the western regions of the USSR began in the first days of the Great Patriotic War. The rapidity of the advance and the appalling scenes of destruction visited by the Germans upon monuments of history and culture left no other choice. The museums had
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
Today the Louvre was forced to close owing to a staff strike. The strike is the outcome of a mounting crisis that began several months ago, after the leak of a letter from the museum's director, Laurence des Cars, to the French Minister of Culture. In it she
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
The restoration project includes the recovery of the graphic design of the façades, executed by Rodchenko and Stepanova. The wooden windows and doors will be restored, as will the Metlakh tile flooring in the entrance hall. On the staircase, the metal railings with their wrought and cast decorative details will
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage
An incredible medieval crucifix of copper alloy by the craftsmen of Limoges, which returned a couple of years ago to York, where it was long kept in St Mary's Abbey, now no more. The Yorkshire Museum bought the figure at auction for 8,500 euros. For more than
Art · Museums · Heritage
Participants in the theft of the golden lavatory have been sentenced. The landmark work by Maurizio Cattelan, the very Italian-American who taped a banana to a wall, entitled "America", was stolen straight out of a museum in 2019. At around five o'clock on the morning
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Former director of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, Hilda Trujillo Soto, accuses the museum's board of trustees of concealing the disappearance of the artist's works. Trujillo claims that during her time at the museum she discovered discrepancies between the inventory of works compiled by
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Monument to Lenin on Capri. The five-metre marble stele by the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù was erected in 1970 in the Gardens of Augustus, to mark the centenary of Lenin's birth, at the commission of the Soviet embassy in Italy. The inscription on the stele reads: “A
Architecture · The East · Heritage · New York · Society
Trump's order cutting foreign aid from the USA has struck heritage protection programmes. The US presidential administration plans to cut around $60 billion of foreign assistance, including the closure of almost half of overseas grants. One of the organisations affected is the New York-based World Monuments Fund:
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The Russian Ministry of Culture has signed a state contract for restoration work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square. The value of the contract is 19.6 million roubles. The deadline for completing the work under the state contract is 27 August 2026.
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The Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve has reopened its seventeenth-century fortress walls and towers to visitors following the completion of restoration. Some of them had been closed since the 1970s owing to their dilapidated condition. For the first time since the walls were built, the foundations have been reinforced, the