The solution will involve low-tech improvements to the surroundings
£13 million voted by the government has yet to arrive: most of the restoration has so far been paid for by public donation. Alberto Ronchey, Minister for Culture, has declared his aim to see thirty new rooms created within three years in former storage space, tripling the size of the Uffizi
Unesco is coordinating a restoration programme for buildings from the Pyramid of Cheops to the Blue Mosque
The architect, whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims, is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression. Here he describes the war fever that has gripped his country and lays the blame on the intellectuals
A harrowing look into the damage wreaked during the last seven months
The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building
Report of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Croatian Ministry of Education and Culture, with information collected by 5 October 1991
Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks
Neither the U.S.A. nor G.B. have ratified it, despite having insisted, with Turkey, on the inclusion of an exemption clause for military necessity
The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind
Unlike in World War II, no commission exists to advise the military