Disasters & destruction
Bogdan Bogdanovic speaks out: War in Yugoslavia, a house attacked by demons
The architect, whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims, is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression. Here he describes the war fever that has gripped his country and lays the blame on the intellectuals
Photographic exhibition documents the cost of the Croatian conflict
A harrowing look into the damage wreaked during the last seven months
Tug-of-war over baroque church of San Luca in Genoa as baroque gem falls into ruin
The Spinola family has created a Foundation and is looking for sponsors; the State would like to get possession of the sadly-neglected building
Damage inflicted on cultural monuments in the Yugoslav conflict
Report of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Croatian Ministry of Education and Culture, with information collected by 5 October 1991
War in Croatia: An open letter in protest of the devastation in Yugoslavia
Signatories include The Art Newspaper's own Anna Somers Cocks
The full text of the Hague convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict (1954)
Neither the U.S.A. nor G.B. have ratified it, despite having insisted, with Turkey, on the inclusion of an exemption clause for military necessity
The law of war: The Hague Convention as military necessity or military convenience?
The 1954 convention is the product of nearly a century’s thought about cultural property in which it is implicit that it is the heritage of all mankind
How forces invading Iraq neglected to make provisions for heritage sites
Unlike in World War II, no commission exists to advise the military