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Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022

Russian Owned Phillips Pledges Proceeds from its London March Sale to Ukrainian Red Cross Society

Russian owned auction house, Phillips, has pledged to donate 100% of the proceeds from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale from March 3, 2022, to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society.

Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022

Hermitage Amsterdam Breaks Off its Relationship with Russia

It is with difficulty that the supervisors, directors, management and employees of the Hermitage Amsterdam break ties with the Hermitage Saint Petersburg. Over the past decades, the collaborations with Russian colleagues have been harmonious...

Article date: Saturday, March 5, 2022

UNESCO Voices Concern on the Developments in Ukraine

UNESCO is deeply concerned by developments in Ukraine and is working to assess damage across its spheres of competence (notably education, culture, heritage and information) and to implement emergency support actions.

Article date: Friday, March 4, 2022

Russian Forces Strike Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Site in Kyiv, Ukraine

BYHMC Advisory Board Chair Natan Sharanksy: “Putin seeks to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent...

Article date: Thursday, March 3, 2022

Pyotr Petr Aven Stepped Down as a Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust

With various sanctions increasingly being placed on Russia and Russians around the world, many art and cultural institutions are also following suit resulting in Pyotr Petr Aven stepped down as trustee of the Royal Academy Trust.

Article date: Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Painting by Kandinsky Transferred to Heirs of Former Jewish Owners

The painting 'Bild mit Häusern' by Wassily Kandinsky has been transferred to the heirs of the Jewish former owners. The painting has been the subject of a dispute between the municipality of Amsterdam and the heirs.

Article date: Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Pyotr (Petr) Aven and the Royal Academy of Arts, London

The EU has frozen the assets and imposed a travel ban on more than half a dozen of Russia’s most prominent oligarchs, many of them with close ties to President Vladimir Putin, one of them is Petr Aven, founder of Alfa Bank.

Article date: Monday, February 28, 2022

Photos by Mikhail Palinchak from Kyiv: Stand with Ukraine, Support Ukraine, Pray for Ukraine!

Mikhail Palinchak (born 1985 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine) shares recent documentary of the ongoing war on Ukaraine by Russia. To accompany these photos, is an embedded 2018 interview with Palinchak, where he speaks on his practice.

Article date: Thursday, February 24, 2022

Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine in Jordanian Desert

A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists says it found a nearly 9,000-year-old shrine at a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert.

Article date: Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Chile Museum to Return Easter Island 'Head'

Chile's National Museum of Natural History said Monday it will return to Easter Island an enormous stone statue taken from the Rapa Nui people and brought to the mainland 150 years ago.

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