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Recueil d’articles de presse sur des sujets liés au patrimoine. Les points de vue exprimés dans ces derniers n’engagent évidemment que leurs auteurs.

25 avril

• La lotta ai predatori d'arte, Renfrew: «Mai acquistare opere non certificate»
  Il Messagero, Italy
  Fabio Isman: Andrew Colin Renfrew, quasi 73 anni di cui 20 spesi su una cattedra di Cambridge dove ora dirige un rilevante istituto di ricerca, è uno dei massimi archeologi viventi: nel 2004, ha meritato il Premio Balzan; e nel 1991, la Regina lo ha creato Lord di una Contea, nel distretto scozzese che ha il suo stesso cognome.

23 avril

• Director-General inaugurates exhibition celebrating re-installation of the Aksum Obelisk
  UNESCO News
  On 23 April 2009, the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura inaugurated an exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters celebrating the successful reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk in Ethiopia.

• Bondi: lista dei 44 monumenti da restaurare presentata al Consiglio dei Ministri
  MiBAC, Italy
  Il Ministro per i beni e le attività culturali, sen. Sandro Bondi, ha presentato oggi durante il Consiglio dei Ministri, la lista dei quarantaquattro monumenti, gravemente danneggiati dal sisma che ha colpito l’ Abruzzo, tutti da restaurare con la massima urgenza.

22 avril

• Cleveland Museum of Art will return tainted antiquities to Italy Wednesday
  The Plain Dealer, United States
  Steven Litt: The Cleveland Museum of Art on Wednesday will hand over to Italian authorities 14 artworks allegedly tainted by illegal activity in Europe.

21 avril

• Unesco - Bibliothèque numérique mondiale : 1.300 documents pour éduquer le monde
  Le Point, France
  Guillaume Chauvigné: Le site imaginé en 2005 voit enfin le jour. La première pierre d'une ambition plus grande encore.

20 April

• Exhibition on reconstruction of Ethiopia's Aksum obelisk
  Ethiopian Review, Ethiopia
  An exhibition - photographs and a video installation - at UNESCO will celebrate the reinstallation of the Aksum obelisk.

• Return of cambodian artefacts delayed
  The Nation, Cambodia
  Guillaume Chauvigné: "The Thai Cabinet will reschedule the return on a later date," Kriengkrai Sampatchalit, director-general of the Fine Arts Department, said yesterday.

17 avril

• Pulling Masterpieces From the Ruins
  Wall Street Journal, United States
  Kelly Crow and Stacy Meichtry: As Italy spent Friday in a national day of mourning with an open-air funeral mass for most of its 289 earthquake victims, the country has begun scouring for an invaluable part of its past: its art.

16 avril

• Sisma Abruzzo/ Bondi: per opere d'arte servono 50 milioni euro
  Wall Street, Italy
  Per mettere in sicurezza e portare i primi interventi per il patrimonio artistico dell'Aquila servono 50 milioni di opere d'arte.

• Culture on joint efforts to protect historic heritage
  Angola Press, Italy
  Luanda's provincial director for Culture, Manuel Sebastião, this Thursday here defended the need for joining efforts in order to preserve and protect the country's historic and cultural heritage, mainly those of the capital city.

14 avril

• Italy earthquake focus shifts to saving Abruzzo's heritage
  The Guardian, United Kingdom
  Tom Kington: A 100-strong culture ministry team yesterday began a full inventory of churches, historic buildings and their contents in the Italian region of Abruzzo, after rescue workers called off their search for survivors of the devastating earthquake.

13 avril

• Stolen artefacts to be returned
  Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia
  Vong Sokheng: Seven Angkorian artefacts smuggled into Thailand almost a decade ago will be returned to Cambodia, a Ministry of Culture official said Sunday, adding that negotiations are under way with Bangkok for the repatriation of dozens of other pieces.

8 avril

• Nuova vita per l'arte all'Ambasciata U.S.A.
  US Embassy in Rome, Italie
  Intervista a Valeria Brunori Valeria Brunori, dell'ufficio Fine Arts dell'Ambasciata, ha condotto e coordinato il restauro delle opere Leggi il testo dell'intervista in inglese Condividi Nuova vita per l'arte all'Ambasciata U.S.A. Dopo il restauro di parte della collezione, le sculture della collezione dell'Ambasciata in trasferta in una mostra al Colosseo.

• Vaticano, appello attraverso Adnkronos: ''Laboratori di restauro italiani adottino un'opera d'arte danneggiata''
  Adnkronos, Italie
  Il professor Francesco Buranelli, Segretario della Pontificia commissione per i beni culturali della Chiesa: ''Lancio un appello attraverso l’Adnkronos per iniziare a raccogliere e restaurare le opere mobili delle chiese danneggiate dal sisma''. E plaude agli annunciati aiuti Usa per i beni culturali: ''L'offerta di Obama è benedetta''.

• Terremoto Abruzzo: Iniziative
  Terra&Terrae, Italy
  Numero speciale della Newsletter con i numeri di telefono ed indirizzi per donazione e raccolta cibo e vestiti.

7 avril

• L'Aquila Earthquake (2009)
  New York Times, United States
  On April 6, 2009, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 shook central Italy around 3:30 a.m., causing serious damage in the mountainous Abruzzo region east of Rome. The epicenter was in L'Aquila, a picturesque Medieval fortress hill town.

6 avril

• Former Peruvian first lady to debate artifact case
  NY Times, United States
  Paul Needham: Eliane Karp-Toledo, the former Peruvian first lady whose dogged attacks on Yale helped start a legal battle between the University and Peru, will speak at the Yale Political Union this evening.

• Damage to Historical Monuments ‘Significant’
  NY Times, United States
  Elisabetta Povoledo: The earthquake in Abruzzo did not spare the region’s artistic patrimony, though government officials said Monday that it was too soon to determine the extent of the damage to historical buildings or works of art.

• Danni al patrimonio artistico: crolla parte della Basilica di S.Maria di Collemaggio
  Il Messagero, Italia
  I più bei monumenti de L'Aquila e provincia sono stati danneggiati dal terremoto.

2 avril

• Treasures looted and sold online
  The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
  Joel Gibson: Aboriginal sites and artefacts are being destroyed and disturbed at record rates in NSW and important objects are increasingly appearing for sale on auction websites, to the dismay of Aboriginal elders.

• Hallan huesos de animales prehistóricos en Hidalgo
  Crónica, Mexico
  Arqueólogos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia rescataron 150 fragmentos de huesos de animales prehistóricos, en una mina de tepetate en el municipio de Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo, a una profundidad de seis metros.

1 avril

• UNESCO, Library of Congress and partners launch World Digital Library
  UNESCO News
  UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library, a web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 April.

mise à jour : 30.04.2009