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heritage strike. In the context of the escalating war in the Middle East, UNESCO World Heritage Site According to reports, buildings in the White City district of Tel Aviv were damaged by Iranian missile attacks, killing one woman and injuring many others. The Art Newspaper. The buildings were built between 1935 and 1937 as part of an urban plan in the Bauhaus architectural style. Israel’s 1934 Habima National Theater was also attacked, and other arts institutions closed and placed artworks in bomb shelters. This includes Museum of Islamic Art Located in Jerusalem, it houses a rare collection of Persian silver from the 11th to 12th centuries, originally discovered in a jar in a cave in western Iran. Earlier this week, Tehran golestan palaceThe UNESCO World Heritage site has also reportedly been damaged by U.S. and Israeli bombing. In a statement released today, Reza Dabrinejad,director Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Urging the protection of cultural property in times of war under the 1954 Hague Convention.
answered prayers. July, cologne cathedral, The Gothic masterpiece and UNESCO-protected site will reportedly start charging visitors a general admission fee in a bid to shore up its struggling finances Depa. Other aging European landmarks such as Notre Dame de Parishas been subject to similar, controversial advice on paying for monument maintenance, restoration and security. About 6 million people visit Germany’s cathedrals each year, but most are tourists, so charging them would go a long way toward shoring up the cash-strapped cathedral, which has depleted its reserves. Cathedral Councilor Clemens van der Veen. Worshipers and members of the Central Cathedral Building Society will be exempted from paying the fee, as will anyone praying, but it is unclear how the latter will be monitored or how much the entrance fee will be.
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scientific analysis royal institute for cultural heritage Belgium recommends painting Pieta The scene where Mary holds the dead Jesus is by Michelangelo. However, other experts remain skeptical about whether the piece is actually the work of the Renaissance master. (“Le Figaro”)
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south african artist Zanele Muholi won this year’s Hasselblad Award Used for photography. “For many years, my work has been about visibility and resistance,” Muholi said in a statement. (Art Review)
Conflict between China and the U.S. as the U.S. becomes increasingly unwelcoming to foreigners and China imposes restrictions on business middle East, Russiaand the lasting impact BrexitFrance has become a stable, welcoming and diverse artistic platform. In a sign of the shift, French dealers are also flexing their muscles at this month’s show. TEFAF Maastricht art fair. (New York Times)
Many artists expressed cave corridor As usual, it’s long overdue for companies in New York and Los Angeles to pay them sales revenue. In other news reports Kenny Schachterthe art collection of the late Italian industrialist Giovanni Agnelli Upcoming auction at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. (Art Network News)
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Cooking with Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi’s radical 20th-century sculptures are world-famous, but his talents as a chef are less well-known. Apollo Magazine Let’s get to know the creativity of Romanian artists expressed through food, which we are so hungry for. As it turns out, Brancusi’s distinguished visitors to his Paris studio, as Man Ray and Eugene Ionescu, Too. Some may even love his cooking as much as his art—after all, both share the simplicity of modernism and the boldness of refinement. Take the painter for example Oscar Chelimsky, He remembers “chickens roasted in his forge that we would wash down with Asti sparkling wine, or maybe a roasted leg of lamb… Everything he cooked was delicious, healthy and completely uncomplicated.” Whether Chelimsky still talks about Brancusi’s food or his art arguably doesn’t matter.
