Heritage

Brutalist housing estate in Sheffield to host £21m art hub

Park Hill Art Space will include artists' studios and a research institute

The year in heritage

Dismantlement and reconstruction

Lawnews

Conservative leaders oppose court order to remove cross from Pope John Paul II sculpture in France

Poland’s prime minister has offered to save the work from censorship and the “dictates of political correctness”

World Monuments Fund recognises sites threatened by conflict, climate change and natural disasters

Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list

Audrey Azoulay, former French culture minister, to be Unesco’s next director-general

In a surprise election, the dark-horse candidate won the vote of the culture agency’s executive board

New York’s natural history museum works with First Nation community on Northwest Coast Hall renovation

As part of conservation of its indigenous American art collection and gallery, the institution will send some objects back to Native American groups to be replicated

Germany launches internet portal to fight art trafficking

Site gives information on international regulations and protected German heritage

Featuresfeature

Venice can’t manage its tourists—yet it’s encouraging more to come from China

The town council proposes digital monitoring and a charge to enter St Mark’s Square

Syrian refugees to be trained to rebuild Palmyra and other heritage sites

World Monuments Fund launches scheme to teach traditional stone masonry in Jordanian town of Mafraq

Nations must co-ordinate efforts to protect heritage in the Middle East, says expert

Zaki Aslan, the director of the ICCROM-ATHAR Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, will deliver talk in London on heritage in conflict zones

Culture on the frontline: Penn Museum shows artefacts curators are fighting to save in Syria and Iraq

Exhibition features ancient objects and Medieval manuscripts, along with contemporary commissions by a Syrian-born artist

Global fund to protect cultural heritage launches with $75m and board led by US billionaire Thomas Kaplan

On Friday, France will propose a new resolution to UN Security Council to safeguard sites in conflict zones around the world

Why Clive of India’s treasures are up for export to Qatar again

V&A and National Trust consider repeat of 2004 campaign to keep rare Mughal flask and huqqa in UK

Eiffel Tower to get a €300m facelift

The 15-year plan is intended to bolster Paris’s bid for the 2024 Olympic Games and 2025 World’s Fair

Rome’s Pantheon, free for now, may charge for entry by 2018

Entry fees to help maintain city’s most popular archaeological site, which received 7 million visitors last year

'Substantial' gold hoard found hidden in piano

Inquest underway to determine whether discovery in Shropshire constitutes a "treasure"

Icom issues Red List to counter trade in looted West African antiquities

Malian cultural heritage at biggest risk in wake of Islamist rebel attacks

'A black nightmare': Palmyra attacked by Isil militants

Fears grow over fate of ancient Syrian site which suffered disastrous destruction during last occupation by extremists

France proposes new global fund for endangered heritage sites

The $100m initiative, inspired by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, will be presented at a conference in Abu Dhabi this week

France joins international treaty to protect cultural heritage in war zones

The Second Protocol of the Hague Convention was met with strong resistance from Western military powers when it was adopted in 1999

Fire damages Medieval frescoes in Georgian cave monastery

The blaze at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at Vardzia may have been started by a monk’s candle

Prada boss says private firms must chip in to restore Italian heritage damaged in quakes

Patrizio Bertelli made the plea at the unveiling of Vasari's Last Supper, which is back on display 50 years after it was damaged in the Florence flood of 1966

Modern-day Monuments Men wanted by the British Army

UK military draws up plans for specialist unit to protect cultural heritage in war zones

Japan pledges $11.4m for mosaic conservation project in Hisham’s Palace in Jericho

Project is part of wider programme to support cultural heritage in Palestine and Jordan Valley

Islamic extremist sentenced to nine years in prison for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums

Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi was first to face war crimes trial in The Hague over cultural destruction

Archaeologists and cultural professionals join petition against North Dakota pipeline

More than 1,000 sign letter denouncing construction of oil route that crosses Native American ancestral lands

François Hollande announces $100m fund to protect cultural heritage in the Middle East

The French president was joined by the US vice president Joe Biden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Tuesday night

Palmyra’s Triumphal Arch rises again in New York

On the heels of bomb scares in the city, a cultural casualty of Isis is rebuilt in City Hall Park