War - Finestre sull'Arte

Ukraine, Russian drone strikes historic 19th century building in Kharkiv region

A 19th-century historic building washit by a drone strike in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. The incident occurred in the village of Velykyi Burluk in the Kupiansk district, where the impact of an unmanned aircraft caused a fire that affected a historic ar...
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Ali Cherri, Silver Lion in Venice, denounces Israel for bombing in Beirut in which parents died

On April 2, Lebanese artist Ali Cherri (Silver Lion in Venice at the 2022 Biennale), together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), filed a war crimes complaint with the crimes against humanity section of the Paris judicial court...
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Iran, government reports major damage to Golestan Palace in Tehran

The Government of Iran has reported that Tehran's Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and among Tehran's oldest building complexes, suffered severe damage following attacks conducted by the United States and the State of Israel on Sunday ni...
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South Africa out of the Venice Biennale? For minister, work on Gaza too "divisive"

South Africa's Minister of Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, is questioning South Africa 's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale, scheduled to take place this spring, justifying the choice by the content of Gabrielle Goliath 's work selected to...
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Sudan Virtual Museum, cultural heritage online despite war, is born

The new year opens with a project of great symbolic and cultural value to Sudan and the international scientific community. On January 1, 2026, the online launch of the Sudan Virtual Museum, a digital platform dedicated to the knowledge, appreciation...
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Sudan, the silent massacre: tens of thousands killed and cultural heritage destroyed

What is taking place in Sudan to the indifference of most, as of April 2023, is a massacre of devastating proportions: only a year ago, on January 7, 2025, the New York Times reported estimates of 150,000 casualties and 11 million displaced people, a...
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Brescia, Palestinian collective Eltiqa's works that survived the bombs on Gaza on display

From Nov. 8, 2025 to Feb. 22, 2026, Brescia 's Museo di Santa Giulia is hosting Material for an Exhibition. Stories, Memories and Struggles from Palestine and the Mediterranean, an exhibition curated by Sara Alberani that ideally reconstructs the art...
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Stop navel gazing! Contemporary art, war and responsibility

Over the past two decades, war has become a frequent and silently accepted circumstance in the West - although formally deprecated in words, both by citizens and the political class of various countries - all the more so in cases where it is not visi...
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