cultural heritage

April 1, 2014
Thieves steal part of a wall painting showing Apollo and Artemis from a building in Pompeii in mid March.

March 18, 2014
Great Pompeii Project trapped in bureaucratic limbo.

February 28, 2014
Today authorities will repossess an ancient Roman sarcophagus lid that was set to go on sale at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

February 20, 2014
institutefinearts : Before and after destruction lantern slides of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino taken by the Monument’s Men.

February 10, 2014
Fratelli Alinari , founded in Florence in 1852, is the world’s oldest photographic agency.

January 27, 2014
Giovanni Nistri, credited with overseeing the return of the famous Euphronios krater from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Italy, has been appointed to head the “Great Pompeii Project”—a €105m campaign to preserve the ancient site.

January 23, 2014
Cristina Ruiz and Javier Pes report in the Art Newspaper on Italy’s demand for the immediate return of antiquities once owned by the disgraced antiquities dealer Robin Symes , declared bankrupt in 2003.

December 5, 2013
Sicilian officials have placed an export ban on twenty-three artworks deemed the island’s most important.

December 3, 2013
Francesco Vezzoli’s “The Church of Vezzoli,“ meant to be shown at MoMA’s PS1, has run up against cultural patrimony laws in Italy .

November 25, 2013
The Art Newspaper has published a follow-up report to the ongoing crisis with large cruise ships threatening Venice.