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By now, it’s safe to say that the East Coast is pretty much over winter. But this dad decided to make the final stretch a lot more bearable for his kids. Joseph Colangelo, a father of three, lives in Cranford, New Jersey. On February 7th, he decided to start building … Read entire story.
Source: Arts News on The Huffington Post
Four ancient Greek vases were pulled from an antiquities sale at Christie’s from the collection of Dr. Manfred Zimmermann after it was discovered that the works could be traced to Gianfranco Becchina, the antiquities dealer who in 2011 was convicted for trafficking looted works. According to the Guardian, which first reported the story Tuesday, the auction house […]
Locals and cultural officials are angered by the demolition of a 300-year-old minaret, a move they say is tantamount to “the destruction of Iraqi cultural history,” the Art Newspaper reports. The minaret, a nearly 40-foot tower made of brown mud bricks attached to a mosque, was demolished to make way for a road expansion by at the […]
A Cambridge council has ordered the removal of a faceless statue of the late Prince Philip, according to the Guardian. Years after it was initially erected without permission, the statue will be removed from the site. The 13-foot monument depicting the late queen’s husband in academic robes with an abstracted face stands outside of a […]