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The vandals who tried to attach a propaganda photograph to Picasso's 1901 "Motherhood" and poured paint on the floor of the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage

The vandals who tried to attach a propaganda photograph to Picasso's 1901 "Motherhood" and poured paint on the floor of the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage. Sentence will be passed in the autumn. It is all, of course, very stupid and dreadful,

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I do not usually comment on shameful stories like the one that took place in a Georgian hotel

I do not usually comment on shameful stories like the one that took place in a Georgian hotel. But for the completeness of this disgraceful drama it must be observed that the word “client” originally denoted a person under protection. The Latin cliens goes back to the verb cluere, “to

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Leo XIV has recorded a video message to the young Catholics of a small Andean community in Peru, telling them: "The Church needs your holy rebellion"

But not a rebellion against what you may have thought. Rather, against the "sofa youth", benumbed and comfortably settled in the conviction that things have always been so, against inertia and apathy. He urges them to become missionaries in schools, universities, streets and villages, and to serve above

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A survey of 200 archaeological sites in Syria has established that in 2015-2025 59% of them were looted, 118 out of 200, almost five times more than in 2011-2016, when 26 of the 200 sites suffered

Traditionally, looting at these places means pits dug by hand. But they are also plundered with bulldozers, destroyed by the building of dugouts and fortifications on their territory and, finally, by camps, including refugee tents, pitched directly on archaeological sites. Mechanised looting is considered the worst form of damage, and

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President of Italy Sergio Mattarella Turns 85

The President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, is 85 years old. He has held the post since 2015. In Italy the president is elected by secret ballot, at a joint session of both chambers of parliament and special delegates from the regions, for a term of seven years

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A new scandal may be looming in the scientific world over the policies of academic journals; at least its outlines are already visible

A new scandal may be looming in the scientific world over the policies of academic journals; at least its outlines are already visible. Tushar Sen, an Indian software researcher, reports that a reviewer for a major journal extorted money from him in exchange for a favourable report. The paper, on

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European Union confirms cancellation of long-term two-million grant to Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale

The European Union has confirmed the cancellation of a long-term two-million grant to the Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. The pavilion, meanwhile, was open for only a few days. The European Commission had threatened to halt funding as early as

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In the Chilean City of Chillán, a Monumental Mural Painted Over on Pinochet's Orders Is Being Restored

Julio Escámez's mural "Beginning and End" was commissioned in 1969 for the ceremonial hall of the municipal building and took two years to complete. Its theme will be familiar to our own readers: the life of workers and peasants, oppression by the ruling classes, and the

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Because of the heat, a trade union threatens strike action in Venice's museums

An Italian national cross-sector trade union has declared an industrial dispute over the fact that working in Venice's museums has become dangerous. The apparent temperature outside reaches 40 degrees, while inside certain museums it has hovered around 30 for weeks on end. At the National Archaeological Museum,

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Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson explains why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property

Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson has explained why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property. Aboutaam built a scheme of shell companies and forged provenances: a restorer scrubbed freshly excavated objects with a toothbrush in an old

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UNESCO Prepares to Expand the List of World Heritage in Danger

The vote will begin in Busan, South Korea, this Friday. The List of World Heritage in Danger is a separate status within the World Heritage register, to which are added sites threatened with destruction by war, natural disaster, development or neglect. The Director of the World Heritage Centre, Lazare Eloundou

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The bureaucrat kindled the fire of indifference

A poster of the Perestroika era