Trajan’s Basilica, a second-century Roman civic building, is receiving long-awaited restorations, though not without controversy over one key donor. The Uzbekistani-born Russian mining magnate Alisher Usmanov donated 1.5 million euros to restore the basilica in 2015, France 24 reports. In 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, Usmanov was sanctioned by the United States and European Union […]
It is common to think of conceptual art as disembodied – as just an idea. And it is perhaps also easy to think of the court’s analysis of rights in a banana taped to a wall as ridiculous.
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