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...Applications are being submitted to the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund, and the public can contribute via the museum’s website....
...Warsaw Old Town, granted World Heritage status in 1980, has become a powerful symbol of Polish national renewal....
...When Mah-Jongg died in 1938, the Courtaulds erected a memorial with a banded obelisk, mimicking his tail, and a lead relief bearing his image....
...Later, as chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (1992-1998), Rothschild oversaw grants totalling £1.2bn....
...The lack of utility elevated it to art, with streamlined geometries that appeal to contemporary viewers....
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...Rosewood’s reimagining of Venice’s storied Bauer Hotel, slated to open in 2025, is one of several heritage European projects, along with Amsterdam, Salzburg, Milan and Rome, all on the heels of Vienna opening...
...The property, which is listed on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, was built in 1873 as a coastguard station and restored more than a century later....
...“I discovered this art, it was God who gave it to me [and] I’m proud”....
...The works of art that changed everything for me?...
...The heritage-listed Hôtel Danckaert, designed in 1922 by the Belgian architect Jean-Baptiste Dewin, is Art Deco in style rather than Art Nouveau, but has been newly adopted as the home of contemporary Brussels...
...“In the ancient world, the practice of looking out of the window was debated in relation to decorum, morality and religious beliefs,” says the show’s curator, the art historian Dr Jennifer Sliwka....
...The NPG raised almost £25mn through a national fundraising campaign, including a £10mn pledge by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and £2.5mn from Art Fund, the largest grant in the charity’s history....
...“Everything must go,” he declared in the press release for a 1986 exhibition, where paintings of shuttered storefronts in New York’s Lower East Side were his latest memorials to a city in flux....
...The UK museum has about half the amount, including a provisional £10mn offer from the government-funded National Heritage Memorial Fund, and £2.5mn from the Art Fund, a national art charity....
...In Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, a statue of Ghana’s first president bears his influential words: “Forward ever, backward never”....
...This is especially awkward for the National Heritage Memorial Fund, a government-backed body launched in 1980 to rescue national treasures, which has to choose among paintings, rare objects and even dilapidated...
...Last November, people crowded into the Moscow Art Theatre, unravelling scarves and checking fur coats....
...It has been a lifeline for performing arts across the country....
...There is a Lidice memorial in Coventry, as well as one in Stoke....
...They are strangely calm memorials to that moment — perfectly geometrical and seemingly untouched. Around here a maze of trails head further into the island....
...The islanders filled the crater with the remnants of shattered memorials — it is still there. I am starting to wonder how hermits hold out....
...The Russian Supreme Court’s closure of Memorial International, which for decades has been committed to documenting Soviet atrocities, was a backhanded compliment to the threat posed by the obstinate temerity...
...I want to heighten the awareness of my people and bring to our consciousness a greater knowledge of our heritage.”...
...While claiming to promote “heritage not hate”, Brooks argues that such systems override the views of local communities....
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