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This Botched Chinese Restoration Job Might Be the New Beast Jesus

by Jillian Steinhauer October 23, 2013October 25, 2013

In what’s undoubtedly the worst “restoration” job we’ve read about since last year’s Beast Jesus, a local company in the Chinese city of Chaoyang has destroyed a series of Qing Dynasty frescoes by painting an entirely new scene over them in garish colors.

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Beirut’s Oldest Synagogue Getting Restored

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian December 17, 2010

Al-Jazeera reports that the once vibrant center of Jewish life in Beirut, Lebanon, and the city’s largest and oldest surving synagogue, Magen Abraham is being restored by private donations, including from local Muslims.

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Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
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Duygu Demir Appointed Curator at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

A founding member of Turkish contemporary art space SALT, Demir brings to NYUAD her training in non-Western modernism and commitment to global contemporary art and cultural production.

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