World Monuments Fund
November 2011 

Lauders Honored with Hadrian Award, P�rez de Cu�llar with Watch Award

On October 27, at a gala in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza in New York City, WMF presented the twenty-fourth Hadrian Award to Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder (left and center, WMF President Bonnie Burnham on right) for their work to advance the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of world art and architecture. That evening WMF also gave the first Watch Award to Marcela P�rez de Cu�llar for her efforts in advancing WMF's work in Peru. After the dinner, WMF held its first gala after party at a celebrated Peruvian restaurant, La Mar Cebicheria.

Save Our Culture Launched in Japan   

On November 2 in Tokyo, WMF and the Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research launched Save Our Culture (SOC), an initiative dedicated to to the preservation of heritage damaged and endangered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan. SOC supports communities still recovering from the catastrophe, raising funds for the preservation and restoration of buildings, art objects and collections, and intangible heritage. The collective heritage of eastern Japan is on the 2012 Watch.

Renaissance Window Restored in Germany    

Castle Hartenfels in Torgau, Germany, is an exquisite example of early Renaissance design in the region. An important economic and political center in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Torgau figures prominently in religious history as an epicenter for the dissemination of Lutheran ideals. A special architectural feature of Castle Hartenfels is the Sch�ner Erker, a sixteenth-century two-story oriel window carved from sandstone. After many years of study and technical investigation, conservation of the Sch�ner Erker was completed this summer, returning it to its former beauty and stabilized for residents and visitors to Torgau to admire.

Arou Temple Project Wins Prestigious Award

A conservation project in the Bandiagara region of Mali, focusing on the restoration of an important Dogon temple in Arou, has won Travel + Leisure's 2011 Global Vision Award for Historic Restoration. We congratulate our local partner in the temple restoration project, Mission Culturelle de Bandiagara, on this great honor.

Major Initiative Begins for Coventry Cathedral

On November 14, Jonathan Foyle, WMF Britain's Chief Executive, joined the Bishop of Coventry and Canon David Porter to launch a major effort to raise funds to stabilize the ruins of old Coventry Cathedral, which last month was included on the 2012 World Monuments Watch. Monday's announcement coincided with the 71st anniversary of the Luftwaffe firebombing that reduced the cathedral to a shell. Some 200 people from around Britain attended the event, held in the new cathedral, built adjacent to the medieval ruins and consecrated in 1962. The conservation effort at the old cathedral is part of a wider tourism and revitalization scheme for the center of Coventry that recently received the backing of the city council.


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UPCOMING TALKS

From Babylon to Bauhaus: Conservation and Interpretation at the Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Florence, Italy, on November 22. 

WMF IN THE NEWS

The New York Times:

Evening Hours 

 

BBC:

Coventry Cathedral Ruins: Fundraising Campaign Started 

 

Bloomberg:

Scene Last Night: Paulson, Mittal, Spencer-Churchills, Lauders 

 

The Times of India:

Dust Lifts from Medieval Grandeur

Lancashire Evening Post:
"Tithebarn on a Budget" Plans

Arch Daily:
WMF Announces 2012 Watch

EFE:
WMF Premia Marcela P�rez de Cu�llar por su Labor en Preservar Monumentos Per�

Notimex:

Controla INAH Problema de Humedad del Templo Quetzalc�atl

SLIDESHOW
Conservation Work at the Sanctuary of Jes�s Nazareno of Atotonilco
 

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