Two activists from the British group Youth Demand were found guilty of criminal damage after they targeted a painting by Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery in London in October 2024 as part of a protest in support of Palestine…
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New York is strengthening its commitment to culture with the largest funding allocation ever provided to the Department of Cultural Affairs. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council President Julie Menin announced the first budget drafted by…
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France is taking a significant step in the long and complex journey of restitution of cultural property stolen during the colonial era. On the night of April 12-13, the Assemblée nationale unanimously approved a bill concerning the…
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What are the changes introduced by the recent law that revised the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code? On March 11, the Senate gave final approval to the "Subsidiary Enhancement of Cultural Heritage" law, an initiative born in 2023 at…
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Interviews Genoa Liguria Palazzi dei Rolli Politics and cultural heritage Rolli Days
The UNESCO site "Le Strade Nuove e il sistema dei palazzi dei Rolli di Genova" is celebrating its twentieth birthday: for Culture Councillor James Montanari, however, it must not be a tourist label or an economic asset. Indeed, if there is…
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Opinions Politics and cultural heritage Returns
To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the…
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The U.K. government has announced a total investment of 1.5 billion pounds (about 1.7 billion euros) earmarked for culture over the next five years, outlining what is being presented as a step change from more than a decade of…
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News Focus Ministry of Culture Politics and cultural heritage
Crumbs for culture: a 90 percent cut, or 182 million euros instead of more than 1.7 billion, on the largest part of the Ministry of Culture's strategic programming, namely the resources of the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC)…
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