World Monuments Fund News
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The other week, water rose over the cafe chairs in Venice’s Piazza San Marco. Even doughty German tourists had to flee.
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Have you ever wondered what became of Rodolfo, the penniless poet in Puccini’s opera “La Boheme,” after the death of his beloved Mimi?
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The Duke of Devonshire knew that gilding the top of the urns on the facade of Chatsworth, the English estate in Derbyshire that has been in his family since 1549, was tacky.
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Wilbur Ross of WL Ross & Co. and his wife, author Hilary Geary Ross, helped host a fundraising dinner last night to support the restoration of Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, England, the birthplace of Winston Churchill.
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While Tunisians sort out their future after a distraught vendor sparked the Arab protests in December 2010, the country’s past continues to attract the World Monuments Fund.
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The Cathedral Church of St. Michael in Coventry, England; the historic center of Brazil’s Salvador de Bahia; and the earthquake-ravaged city of Sawara, Japan, are among World Monuments Fund sites that will share a $1 million restoration grant from American Express Foundation.
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High up in the historic Ansonia -- favored home of singers, artists, eccentrics -- on Manhattan’s west side, Marilyn Perry is wondering which of her many paintings she likes the most.
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I drove into the picture-book village of Goshen, New York, past the Gothic-style church that dominates Main Street. A bit farther on I came to the pile of concrete boxes that some deem a masterpiece.
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Women in saris or gowns and moguls in tuxedos convened in New York last night to raise money for the World Monuments Fund and honor Ratan N. Tata , whom one attendee called the Andrew Carnegie of India.
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A Fifth Avenue Manhattan bank building, an Athens cemetery and many areas in Japan damaged by the March earthquake are among 67 sites around the world that need to be preserved, the World Monuments Fund announced today.
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