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The Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property
Earlier on 2017 the Government of the UK decided finally to ratify the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two tougher protocols of 1954 and 1999. A bill is now being debated by Parliament that could become UK law […]
The new Battle of Parthenon
Greece has not abandoned the idea of resorting to international justice to repatriate the Parthenon marbles and is investigating new ways in which it might bring a claim against the British Museum. As campaigners prepare to mark the 200th anniversary of the antiquities’ “captivity” in London, Athens is working at […]
Artists against Brexit
Recently (on Sunday 8 May 2016), Sean O’Hagan interviewed Wolfgang Tillmans in The Guardian. We reproduce some question and answers of this exciting interview. Enjoy! You have designed 25 posters against Brexit. What prompted you, as an artist, to make this high-profile, pro-European statement? First, it is a much more […]
Happy birthday the Fitzwilliam!
On 4 February, 1816 an Irish peer, Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion, died aged 71 – to the benefit of Cambridge University. He left a fabulous collection of works of art including paintings by Titian and Veronese, wonderful books, illuminated manuscripts, handwritten scores by some of the greatest composers, […]
Ruscha, prints and Tate
The celebrated American pop artist Ed Ruscha is donating a collection of prints to Tate in what its director, Nicholas Serota, called “a wonderful Christmas present to the whole nation”. Ruscha will donate 18 recent print editions and has also promised to give one impression of all future prints he […]