Politics and cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

London: They attached a photo of a mother from Gaza to a Picasso and defaced the floor—the culprits

Two activists from the British group Youth Demand were found guilty of criminal damage after they targeted a painting by Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery in London in October 2024 as part of a protest in support of Palestine. According to The Te...
Read more...

New York: Mamdani Increases Funding for Culture: Record Budget of $323.8 Million

New York is strengthening its commitment to culture with the largest funding allocation ever provided to the Department of Cultural Affairs. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council President Julie Menin announced the first budget drafted by the new adm...
Read more...

France passes law on the restitution of works stolen in colonial times

France is taking a significant step in the long and complex journey of restitution of cultural property stolen during the colonial era. On the night of April 12-13, the Assemblée nationale unanimously approved a bill concerning the restitutio...
Read more...

Cultural heritage, what changes the recently passed law has made

What are the changes introduced by the recent law that revised the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code? On March 11, the Senate gave final approval to the "Subsidiary Enhancement of Cultural Heritage" law, an initiative born in 2023 at the proposal ...
Read more...

Twenty years of Rolli in Genoa. Councillor Montanari speaks: "The UNESCO site is everyone's property."

The UNESCO site "Le Strade Nuove e il sistema dei palazzi dei Rolli di Genova" is celebrating its twentieth birthday: for Culture Councillor James Montanari, however, it must not be a tourist label or an economic asset. Indeed, if there is a lack of ...
Read more...

Who really owns the destroyed or stolen works? For a hypothesis of "cultural hospitality"

To enter a major European museum is often to experience a contradiction. On the one hand, wonder: Greek statues that do not seem to have lost an iota of their power, intact Egyptian sarcophagi, gleaming African bronzes. On the other the doubt that cr...
Read more...

UK government invests 1.5 billion in culture: its social importance recognized

The U.K. government has announced a total investment of 1.5 billion pounds (about 1.7 billion euros) earmarked for culture over the next five years, outlining what is being presented as a step change from more than a decade of underfunding. The packa...
Read more...

Crumbs for culture. If the government cuts 90% on MiC strategic programming.

Crumbs for culture: a 90 percent cut, or 182 million euros instead of more than 1.7 billion, on the largest part of the Ministry of Culture's strategic programming, namely the resources of the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC): allocations that...
Read more...