Museum and Cultural Affairs Director

The City of Riverside is seeking a dynamic and innovative professional to serve as Museum and Cultural Affairs Director and to lead the City’s expanding Arts and Culture program. The position is an integral member of the executive management team…
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Siena’s cultural organisations threatened by banking scandal

The banking scandal that threatens to sink the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the oldest continuously operating bank in the world (founded in 1472), and its eponymous foundation spells trouble for the region’s art and heritage. The Fondazione…
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Tolstoy’s great-great-grandson appointed cultural adviser to Putin

Vladimir Tolstoy, the great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy, has been appointed a cultural adviser to the Russian President Vladimir Putin. The appointment was made in May, shortly after Putin returned to the Kremlin as president after serving as the…
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Allianoi archaeologist awarded cultural heritage prize

A decade-long campaign led by Turkish archaeologist Ahmet Yaras to prevent the Turkish government from flooding the ancient Roman spa town of Allianoi is one of 28 initiatives to receive a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra…
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Russia and US continue to discuss cultural stand-off

Mikhail Shvydkoi, the Kremlin’s international cultural envoy and Tara Sonenshine, the US’s new Under Secretary of State for Public Affairs, have discussed the cultural stalemate between Russia and the US over sacred Jewish books. Russian state…
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Francesco Bonami becomes Milan cultural adviser

The high-profile Italian scholar and curator Francesco Bonami is adding another post to his bulging portfolio, taking on an official advisory role to Milan’s cultural commissioner Stefano Boeri.

Bonami’s task is to create a contemporary art…
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Mirza’s cultural politics book pulped after row over Tate cover image

A new book by Munira Mirza, the culture adviser to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been withdrawn because of a legal problem over a Tate image on its cover. The Politics of Culture: the Case for Universalism examines how policymakers…
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European Union proposes world’s largest ever cultural funding programme

As the economic crisis deepens across Europe, the European Commission plans to launch the world’s largest ever cultural funding programme, with €1.8bn allocated for visual and performing arts, film, music, literature and architecture. The…
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