DALE BERNING SAWA
Art critic, culture journalist
Untitled, 1974
As world cheers the restored Notre-Dame, other French churches decay The Art Newspaper
Nagorno Karabakh culture fast disappearing The Art Newspaper
The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last The Art Newspaper
From audioguides without men to a new women's museum in London, here's how the art world is celebrating International Women's Day. I compiled a list of exhibitions of events whose impact on foregrounding women artists is likely to live on beyond one calendar day The Art Newspaper
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Robots and submarines: France's new state-of-the-art ship is a game changer for marine archaeology The Art Newspaper
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The ceasefire agreement with Azerbaijan comes with great risks for Armenia The Guardian
While Azerbaijanis can rightly celebrate a return to homes they were driven from 30 years ago, Armenian culture is in peril. Read more here
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Monumental loss: Azerbaijan and 'the worst cultural genocide of the 21st century' The Guardian
A damning new report details an attempted erasure by Azerbaijan of its Armenian cultural heritage, including the destruction of tens of thousands of Unesco-protected ancient stone carvings. Read more here
The non-profit Brussels art fair, Brafa, auctioned a section of the Berlin Wall for charity. The Art Newspaper
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The graduate drawing Notre-Dame's renovation The Art Newspaper
Rachida Dati stays in post as French culture minister in new government The Art Newspaper
Paris heralds the return of Notre-Dame's bells The Art Newspaper
Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble The Art Newspaper
Museums in the firing line as UK council funding crisis bites
The Art Newspaper
Local authorities in England are taking drastic action, including scrapping all funding for museums, leading some experts to argue that new funding models are the only way to survive. Read here
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Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre The Art Newspaper
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Uyghur civilisation in China continues to be erased as part of chilling mission The Art Newspaper
Australian think tank data reveals that two-thirds of the region’s mosques have been either destroyed or damaged.
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Working -- so remotely -- on this piece about the Uyghur desert shrines and oral traditions being erased by China’s cultural crackdown was emotional. If I feel such a keen sense of loss for this heritage that isn't mine, quite what living with it from the inside must be is beyond me. Exile has always been a potent musical metaphor. But in the context of the Uyghur people’s plight, it is not imagery. It is an emergency. The Guardian
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Need arts funding? Well, try hustling like Americans
The Times
US philanthropists give more to the arts than their British counterparts. Institutions need bold new strategies.
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Out of the ashes -- in a miraculously short time, Notre-Dame has been resurrected The Art Newspaper
‘It was so fragile, we weren’t certain it wouldn’t collapse’: the architect who sketched Notre Dame’s ancient insides The Guardian
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Encyclopedia makes Africa's distant past relevant to today and tomorrow The Art Newspaper
The story of how African history and prehistory has been written is largely one of theft and oversight.
Archaeologist Shadreck Chirikure aims to upend this. Read here
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Bourse de Commerce: opening of Pinault's long-awaited Paris museum is—pandemic permitting—finally around the corner The Art Newspaper
Two decades since the billionaire started planning a home for his collection in the French capital, the spectacular space opens in 2021. Read here
Telling tales: when
folklore meets fine art The Art Newspaper
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Exhibition mixing art and ethnography will include pieces by BrâncuÈ™i and
Beuys, as well as some Brittany cherry stones. Read here
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'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion The Art Newspaper
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening. Read here
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Comrades for ever: how D-day bravery was sculpted in bronze The Guardian
As a new British memorial to the Normandy landings is unveiled today on Gold beach, artist David Williams-Ellis talks about its creation.
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