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An estimated $110 million of art was lost in the September 11 attacks: $100 million in private art [1] and $10 million in public art. [2] Much of the art was not insured for its full value. [1] In October 2001, a spokesperson for insurance specialists AXA Art described the attacks as "the biggest single disaster ever to affect the [art ...
In other instances, works of art may be destroyed by a local authority against the wishes of the outside community. Examples of this include the removal of Diego Rivera 's 1934 Man at the Crossroads mural from the Rockefeller Center and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan statues by the Taliban government.
The week of April 27–May 1, 1959, Today originated from Paris, France. Garroway and company spent a week in the French capital, focusing on the art, culture, history and politics of France. Brigitte Bardot and Charles Van Doren appeared on the show. In the days before satellite communications, the Paris shows could not be broadcast live in ...
These Asheville artists saw their art studio submerged in water last week. Now, their in Louisville for the St. James Court Art Show.
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...
The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, didn’t suffer any damage, but its neighbors did. So museum employees began visiting shelters for displaced residents ...
Statues of American slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Francis Scott Key were also vandalised or removed. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to the Huffington Post , by October 2020 over a hundred Confederate symbols had been "removed, relocated or renamed", based on data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The lobby of 1 World Trade Center in 2000. Sky Gate, New York is the black object that can be seen hanging on the wall. The sculpture was commissioned by Saul Wenegrat, director of the art program for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, for the World Trade Center and its "Percent For Art" program. [15]