January 5, 2024
…diplomats on September 7, 2023. However, the mosaics’ repatriation soon turned into an embarrassing fiasco for the DA. The challenge to the DA’s claims of authenticity came from an unexpected…
October 27, 2023
Top of Mount Shiroyama and Aso Bay in Tsushima, photo by Irisgazer, 4 October 2019, Public Domain Mark 1.0 South Korea’s High Court ruled on October 26, 2023 that a…
October 3, 2023
…in less than two decades. View of approximately 2000 khatchkars in the Old Julfa cemetery, prior to their bulldozing and complete destruction. Courtesy Argam Ayvazyan. To put Azerbaijan’s complete ethnic…
March 1, 2023
…also is concerned about the inherent costs that come with any collection, like framing, lighting and insurance. Under the circumstances, buying art simply doesn’t seem very feasible to her at…
March 9, 2023
Vatican Canon’s Art Collection Comes Under Investigation… Again Don Michele Basso, the Vatican. Scandal continues to dog the art collection of Vatican cleric Michele Basso, even after the elderly Monsignor’s…
July 1, 2022
…performance celebrating 569th anniversary conquest of Constantinople, May 2022. Erdoğan’s program for Turkish greatness is centered on specific historical dates: 2023, 2053, and 2071. 2023 is the 100th anniversary of…
June 5, 2023
…Sassanian artifacts as well as an almost complete collection of coins depicting the Sassanian Empire’s rulers, each in their own distinctive crown. Johnny’s most prized pieces are a small relief…
June 17, 2023
In March 2023, three symbolically important though hardly artistically significant fragments of the hundreds of scattered sculptures from the Parthenon were gifted by the Vatican in an “ecumenical donation” to…
August 28, 2021
…are seen as affecting entire communities as much or more than individuals, clan and communal decision-making in these matters is also extremely important. This community decision-making finds its fullest expression…
March 19, 2019
…on show in June and July 2019, when UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan. Newly elected World Heritage Committee Chairman, Abulfaz Garayev, who…