The issue of the Parthenon Marbles, and whether they should be returned to Greece, was discussed in depth by a panel at the British Museum (BM) on 5 July, with calls for their restitution noted as an ongoing concern for the newly appointed director Nicholas Cullinan.
She was hired by the university's chancellor, Pradeep K. Khosla, with the mandate to expand the audience and raise the profile of the Stuart Collection as an art destination, on a fast-growing campus traversed by nearly 85,000 students, faculty, runners, dog walkers and other visitors daily.
These Party leaders might reasonably doubt whether any alternative to Biden would have a much better chance to beat Trump: Vice-President Kamala Harris, the most obvious choice to lead the ticket if the President steps down, abandoned her own White House candidacy in 2020 before the first primary votes were cast, amid general disinterest.
His approval rating is a net ten points worse than it was in November, 2022 when inflation was much much higher and when he didn’t have the benefit of running against Donald Trump, who since then has been indicted on many charges, and has also been convicted of crimes in New York.
According to a statement posted to social media, the protestors’ goals were to “stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people” and to demand that SAIC and AIC divest from entities “profiting off of the occupation and genocide in Palestine”, starting with cutting ties with the Crown family, Chicago billionaires who according to Forbes own 10% of General Dynamics.
Posting on Instagram on the eve of the UK general election, Banksy shared an image of the Louise Michel, a search and rescue boat he has funded that has saved scores of people tying to make the perilous crossing to Europe from North Africa.
Like much of Longo’s more recent output, the works are overtly political in nature, depicting the White House, the US Capitol, the Supreme Court Building and the 6 January 2021 insurrection.
A St Louis art centre has come under fire for taking down artists Dani Collette and Allora McCullough's exhibition Planting Seeds, Sprouting Hope after finding some of the featured works to be antisemitic.
“Mabel was a free-spirited young girl, an adventurous and well-travelled woman; key to a glittering bohemian circle and one of the most significantly overlooked talents of early 20th-century British art,” according to the publisher.
“Never before has the market seen a collection of this diversity that so beautifully chronicles the history of human science and technological ingenuity—much less one assembled by a founding father of modern computing,” Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s Americas, said in a statement.
The text also read, “On university campuses, pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas (which is classified as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government) and a Palestinian state stretching ‘from the river to the sea,’ a phrase defined by the erasure of Israel.”
I was walking from Blackfriars to my office on Southwark Street and I saw some of the pavement was taped off, so I crossed the road and just as I got to the other side I heard a giant crash behind me.
