Last year, news outlets began reporting that the militant group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria had begun bombing and bulldozing cultural heritage sites and artifacts, some dating
Mexico City’s Museo Jumex cancels a controversial Hermann Nitsch show. [The New York Times] London’s Wellcome Collection is showing a new exhibition, “Forensics, The Anatomy of Crime,”…
"Syria's heritage is under attack," said Irina Bokova, director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in a press briefing Wednesday at New York's…