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Nazi-Looted Painting Salvaged From Amsterdam Rubbish Pile Is Set To Be Returned

07/14/2026

Nazi-Looted Painting Salvaged From Amsterdam Rubbish Pile Is Set To Be Returned A Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to Jewish Dutch art dealerJacques Goudstikker, has beenidentifiedand will now be returned to his heirs. The painting had been in the possession …

Метки : искусствореституциянацистское наследиеамстердамистория.расследование

Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in England for First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years

07/11/2026

Bayeux Tapestry Arrives in England for First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years TheBayeux Tapestry, a massive, 11th century masterwork that depicts the events surrounding the Duke of Normandy’s conquest of England, has returned to England for the first time in …

Метки : история.музейвыставкасредневековьетранспортировкатайна

White House Report: Smithsonian Abandons Scholarship for Activism

07/06/2026

While most of the country was celebrating United States’s 250th birthday, the Trump White House launched its latest broadside against the Smithsonian Institution: a 162-page report from the Domestic Policy Council detailing supposed “ideological capture” at the National Museum of …

Метки : политикамузеикультурная войнаистория.образование

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Announces Replacement for Toppled Lenin Monument

06/30/2026

A pedestal that once supported a Lenin monument in Kyiv that has remained empty ever since 2013 may soon host a statue of a Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, who is revered by many in Ukraine as a national hero. A …

Метки : политикаистория.памятникииван мазепаукраина#культура

Tunnels Dating to Henry VIII’s Reign Uncovered Beneath English School

06/15/2026

Tunnels dating to Henry VIII’s reign have been discovered on the grounds of New Hall School in Chelmsford, England. The news was first reported by the BBC earlier this month. Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain …

Метки : археологияистория.тюдорынаходкиnew hall schoolанглия

Da Vinci’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ is Brought Back Together With New Online Archive

06/09/2026

Da Vinci’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ is Brought Back Together With New Online Archive A new online platform,Leonardotheka, was launched on Monday that, for the first time in over 400 years, reunites two historically essential collections of writings and drawings byLeonardo da …

Метки : искусствоцифровой архиврукописиcodex atlanticusleonardo da vinciистория.

Vaults Under the Lincoln Memorial Are Opening—and Tix Already Sold Out

05/29/2026

The iconic aboveground space at the Lincoln Memorial is accompanied by lesser-known environs beneath—in the form of an “undercroft” being transformed into a 15,000-square-foot exhibition space scheduled to open next month with a show related to the memorial’s creation and …

Метки : музейlincoln memorialnational mallреконструкцияблаготворительностьистория.

Trump Reinstalls Statue to Founding Father, Enslaver Removed in 2020

05/28/2026

Last Friday, the Trump administration erected 13 statues on Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington D.C.—including an equestrian monument dedicated to the Revolutionary War figure and slave owner Caesar Rodney that was removed from view in Wilmington, Delaware amidst the Black …

Метки : памятникиистория.политикапротестырабствоsmithsonian

British Museum's "Samurai" Exhibition Corrects Misconceptions

04/03/2026

The myth of the samurai gained prominence outside Japan in the early 20th century through films, TV shows, art, and literature. This widespread interest contributed to various misconceptions about them. However, a new exhibition at the British Museum, simply titled …

Метки : самураивыставкаbritish museumистория.япония#культура

Skeleton of D’Artagnan, the Fourth Musketeer, Found in Dutch Church

03/27/2026

The skeletal remains of the 17th-century French folk hero D’Artangnan—born: Charles de Batz de Castelmore—have perhaps been recovered after being buried under a church in the Netherlands for centuries. The floor of the church, St. Peter and Paul in Maastricht, …

Метки : археологияистория.d’artagnanmaastrichtмушкетёрыднк

Female Pharaoh’s Erasure From Memory Was Not Revenge, Researcher Says

03/26/2026

Hatshepsut (ca. 1505–1458 BCE), the most powerful of ancient Egypt’s female rulers, was also one of the most successful, notable for reopening old trade routes, commissioning massive building projects—including her own mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri—and ushering in an era …

Метки : древний египетhatshepsutархеологияреликвииритуалыистория.

Mark Rothko's Former NYC Townhouse Now for Sale, as Luxury Condominiums

03/23/2026

Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s. There, the late abstract expressionist—famously known for his color field technique—created the …

Метки : искусствонедвижимостьреставрациянью-йоркистория.тайна

Statue Removed During Protests to Be Reinstated in Washington D.C.

03/23/2026

Six years after the city of Wilmington, Delaware, took it down in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests that roiled the United States, the National Park Service plans to reinstate a statue of Caesar Rodney—a signer of the Declaration …

Метки : история.памятникирабствополитикапротесты250-летие

High Point Museum HVAC Grant Canceled After ChatGPT Labeled It DEI, Lawsuit Says

03/16/2026

A federal lawsuit alleges that a government initiative created by the Trump administration relied on the generative AI software ChatGPT to help identify grants tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. The lawsuit alleges that a grant awarded to the …

Метки : музейискусствореставрациязагадкаистория.расследованиеискусственный интеллектгрантыdeiсудебный искneh