Stop Press

A compilation of media articles on heritage topics. Obviously, these all reflect the viewpoints of the authors.

30 June

• Se inunda la biblioteca de Umán
  Diario de Yucatán, Mexico
  Carolina Uc Quintal: Con la época de lluvias comienzan los problemas en la biblioteca que se ubica en la Casa de la Cultura, debido a que el agua se filtra por las paredes y techos, lo que pone en riesgo el inmobiliario y los libros, además de dejar charcos en el piso, lo que podría causar accidentes a los usuarios.

26 June

• Summit addresses Nazi-looted art
  BBC News, United Kingdom
  Jewish groups and representatives of 49 countries are gathering in Prague for talks on returning art and possessions stolen by the Nazis.

25 June

• Dresden is deleted from UNESCO’s World Heritage List
  WHC
  "Every time we fail to preserve a site, we share the pain of the State Party," declared María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO who is chairing the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee presently underway in Seville on Thursday.

24 June

• Floods force Vienna to evacuate Albertina museum
  AlertNet, United Kingdom
  Vienna's Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist works by Monet and Renoir, will start removing 950,000 artworks from its leaking underground depot following some of Austria's heaviest downpours in 50 years.

23 June

• Elgin Marble Argument in a New Light
  NY Times, United States
  Not long before the new Acropolis Museum opened last weekend, the writer Christopher Hitchens hailed in this newspaper what he called the death of an argument.

• English Heritage reveals conservation areas at risk
  Culture24, United Kingdom
  The latest Heritage at Risk register released by English Heritage reveals that one in seven of England's 9,300 conservation areas is at risk of neglect, decay or damaging change.

• Facedown Burials Widely Used to Humiliate the Dead
  National Geographic, United States
  Burying the dead facedown in ancient times didn't mean RIP, according to new research that says the practice was both deliberate and widespread.

22 June

• Letters: Save centre to protect world textile heritage - The closure of the Textile Conservation Centre
  The Times, United Kingdom
  Sir, We wish to express our grave concern at the closure of the Textile Conservation Centre by the University of Southampton. While we appreciate that the university is ruled by demanding financial targets we must convey the strong objection of the international heritage community to this action.

20 June

• La rénovation du patrimoine
  Avenue de l'Europe, France
  Véronique Auger: L’Europe possède des trésors ; nous avons voulu savoir comment chaque pays s’y prenait pour entretenir son patrimoine historique.

18 June

• [VLSI] 'Digital Rosetta Stone' Passes Down Cultural Heritage to Future Generations
  Tech-On , Japan
  Japanese researchers prototyped a memory system that can store large volumes of data for more than a thousand years.

• La Policía sigue investigando el robo en la Catedral de Arequipa
  Perú 21, Peru
  Los delincuentes sustrajeron ayer el altar mayor que data del siglo pasado. Los agentes de la división de carreteras también participan en la búsqueda, interviniendo cualquier vehículo sospecho que salga de la ciudad sureña.

17 June

• Sarà la Francia ad adottare la Chiesa delle Anime Sante
  Il Mattino, Italy
  Sarà la Francia ad adottare all'Aquila la Chiesa del Suffragio, conosciuta dagli aquilani come Chiesa delle Anime Sante, gravemente danneggiata dal terremoto. Il ministro dei beni culturali Bondi, si apprende dal ministero, ha ricevuto oggi a Roma l'ambasciatore di Francia, M. de la Sablière accompagnato da una delegazione tecnica del Governo francese arrivata in Italia per verificare ogni aspetto inerente l'adozione e il restauro in vista del G8.

12 June

• BMW Gives For China's Intangible Cultural Heritage
  ChinaCSR, China
  The BMW Compassion Fund from the China Charity Federation has donated CNY1 million to the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center to protect such intangible culture heritage items as the craft of wood engraved pictures in Mianzhu, Sichuan, the Qiang People's embroidery, and the art of the Qiang flute.

1 June

• Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival Kicks off in Chengdu
  CRIENGLISH.com, China
  Wang Ling: hina's second International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage kicked off Monday in Chengdu, capital of the country's southwest Sichuan province.

updated on: 19 March, 2010