Art
In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.
News
Western media stories about cultural heritage destruction have recently focused on places like Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
Art
The monolithic concrete that forms some of our most creative 20th-century architectural heritage is in danger of disappearing.
News
This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
News
ISIS’s systematic looting in Syria has captured the world’s attention, but a new study shows they’re not the only ones selling off the country’s cultural heritage.
News
A new petition against the cathedral's restoration claims work done over the past six years has irreversibly damaged the 800-year-old building and erased centuries of the history that makes it so special.
In Brief
As ISIS continues to destroy the world's cultural heritage, archaeologists and other onlookers continue to scramble to find ways to counter the destruction.
News
Did a small town in Mexico bulldoze a historically protected chapel at the heart of its community last month?
Art
The conservation of artifacts already in museum care is highlighted more often than the repairs creators make to their own objects.
In Brief
The Great Wall was once China's most fearsome defense.
In Brief
The Great Wall was once China's most fearsome defense.
News
On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would ensure that authorities cannot seize works of art brought into the United States for temporary display in cultural institutions — even if they're determined to have been stolen.