Tag: Damaged
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More UNESCO Sites Damaged in Isfahan and Lebanon, Democrats Probe Whereabouts of Millions Given to Fund Trump Library: Morning Links for March 11, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines IRANIAN LANDMARKS HIT. More news of damage to historical sites in Iran is coming through as the war drags on in the region, reports The Art Newspaper. Following the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and the Golestan Palace in Tehran, other landmarks have read more
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Bauhaus Buildings at UNESCO World Heritage Site Damaged in Tel Aviv by Iranian Missile Strike
Two buildings that are part a UNESCO World Heritage site known as the White City of Tel Aviv were damaged this week during the ongoing missile strikes between Iran and the US and Israel. The Times of Israel first reported on the damage of one of these buildings. The White City is a complex of read more
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Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Damaged in US-Israel Bombing of Iran
The Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the heart of Tehran, has reportedly been damaged in US-Israeli airstrikes as the military campaign against Iran spirals into a wider regional conflict. According to Iran’s cultural heritage minister, Reza Salehi-Amiri, debris and blast shockwaves from a strike near Arag Square in southern Tehran damaged the read more
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Four Suffer Minor Injuries After Michael Joo Sculpture Is Damaged in New York
A large sculpture by Korean American artist Michael Joo collapsed after an accident, reportedly caused by a careless visitor, during the February 20 opening of his exhibition “Sweat Models 1991–2006,” at New York’s Space ZeroOne. The collapse of the piece Saltiness of Greatness (1992) injured four, who were taken to the emergency room via ambulance, read more
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A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?
Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground. Local authorities discovered the damage over the weekend and revealed it on Monday night. It’s read more
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Empress Eugénie’s Damaged Crown to Be Restored After Louvre Heist
When thieves broke into Paris’s Louvre on October 19 last year, they ran off with an estimated $102 million in jewels. In their scramble to escape, however, they left behind what may have been at the top of their loot list: the crown of Empress Eugénie. Dropped and badly damaged during the heist, the diamond- read more
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