Stop Press

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

25 April

• 'Lost' Le Corbusier Building Sparks Preservation Movement in Iraq
  Huffington Post, United States
  In Baghdad, a gymnasium completed in 1982, suffering the signs of decades of violence, poverty, and ill-executed renovation, has sparked a small preservation movement, reawakening a country to its neglected cultural heritage.

• World Monuments Fund, Government of Madhya Pradesh announce conservation partnership
  Art Daily
  Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund, and officials of Madhya Pradesh, announced today a partnership to conserve a portfolio of historic sites in the Indian state.

• Italy on other side of art tiff
  Boston Herald, Etats-Unis
  The Italian government has been persistent, tenacious and very effective in forcing repatriation of its looted antiquities.

18 April

• Un musée italien brûle ses œuvres pour protester contre les coupes budgétaires
  Le Monde, France
  Le directeur du Musée d'art contemporain de Casoria, près de Naples, dans le sud de l'Italie, a commencé, mardi 17 avril, à brûler ses œuvres pour protester contre les importantes coupes budgétaires dans le secteur de la culture.

• Italy Hopes Sponsoring Can Save Cultural Treasures
  Spiegel International, Germany
  With the country mired in debt, Italy's cultural budget has been slashed in recent years, spelling trouble for several historic sites. Many local politicians have turned to corporate sponsorships to raise the money necessary for vital upkeep. The trend has attracted considerable criticism.

16 April

• Mali : L’Unesco alerte sur des trésors volés de Tombouctou
  Radio France Internationale
  La directrice générale de l'Unesco, Irina Bokova, a appelé ce lundi 16 avril à une action concertée des pays frontaliers du Mali pour empêcher le trafic de « trésors documentaires » de Tombouctou qui auraient été volés par les islamistes ayant pris le contrôle du nord du pays.

15 April

• 'Suitcase Stovel' travelled globe to preserve heritage sites
  Ottawa Citizen, Canada
  Carleton professor's study helped pave the way for Rideau Canal's UNESCO designation.

14 April

• British police recover valuable Chinese artifacts stolen in raid on museum
  Washington Post, United States
  British police say they have recovered two Chinese artifacts valued together at more than 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) that were stolen from a university museum earlier this month.

13 April

• Art of restoration
  Korea Herald, Korea
  National Museum restores two Joseon paintings owned by the British Museum.

• Timbuktu: Mali's treasure at risk from armed uprising
  CNN, United States
  For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable.

12 April

• China's cultural heritage faces urban growth challenge
  China Daily, China
  Rapid large-scale urbanization and improper rural development are the main challenges to protecting China's cultural heritage, experts have warned.

• Stolen Cezanne found by Serbian police
  BBC, United Kingdom
  A Cezanne painting stolen in a raid on a Swiss museum in 2008 has been recovered in Serbia.

• In Pictures: Baby mammoth
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Lyuba, whose carcass was buried in permafrost on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia for 40,000 years, was found by a Nenets reindeer herder in 2007.

11 April

• Buddhist Art and its Conservation: New MA programme at The Courtauld Institute of Art
  Art Daily
  The Courtauld Institute of Art announced the creation of a new MA programme in Buddhist Art: History and Conservation. Generously funded by an endowment of £2.5 million by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation of Hong Kong, the programme will operate in collaboration with School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

• Hadrian's Wall receives £500k boost
  BBC, United Kingdom
  Hadrian's Wall has received more than £500,000 from the SITA Trust.

• An Online Art Collection Grows Out of Infancy
  New York Times, United States
  I don’t know how many wonders of the world there are by now, but it is possible that the Google Art Project will someday join the list.

• Italy’s museum czar’s recipe: Cultural tourism can help end recession
  Washington Post, United States
  One of Italy’s top culture officials has pushed private investment in the country’s museums and galleries and the seemingly insatiable Chinese and Indian appetites for art and archaeology as the way to pull the country out of its recession.

• Archaeology:Egypt,Naples show on search for the Land of Punt
  ANSAMed, Italy
  Archaeologists are caught between the search for the mythical Land of Punt and the preoccupation for how the archaeological surveys might progress after the change in Egypt's political scene.

8 April

• Delhi's hurt heritage gets corporate balm
  India Today, India
  The public-private partnership (PPP) model may yet to fire the Indian economy. But for Delhi's 'hurt' heritage, it is the new lifeline.

5 April

• Protecting UNESCO heritage from redevelopment
  Korea Herald
  Local community calls for cancellation of redevelopment plan near Joseon royal tomb Jeongneung.

• Titanic wreck gets Unesco protection
  BBC, United Kingdom
  The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco.

3 April

• Namibia: Heritage Handbook Launched in Windhoek
  AllAfrica
  The Heritage Handbook itself is part of a package of heritage awareness materials which have been produced as part of the Millennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F) Programme for Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Namibia.

• Protecting the past to protect the future
  Voice of Russia
  On April 2, an exhibition devoted to the history of an international treaty on protection of cultural monuments and to the treaty’s initiator Nikolay Roerich opened in UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris.

updated on: 2 May, 2012