On Thursday the World Monuments Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the world's architectural heritage, announced that the Conger Goodyear House was included on its "2002 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites".
In the latest flare-up of the saga, Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy's deputy minister for cultural heritages, announced recently that he would resign if the obelisk were returned.
Because of other Israeli steps that the Americans considered provocative — declaring two sites in the occupied West Bank as Israeli heritage sites, announcing other large East Jerusalem housing construction projects and proposing a plan to remake an entire Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem — the announcement last week was viewed with particular severity.
Declaring Gallo of Sonoma a "new generation" of wines, the ads show Matt Gallo and-or Gina Gallo in a lush vineyard with the statement, "Every family wants the children to do better than the parents," and the response, "So how are we doing?" The ads use Gallo heritage while announcing that the grandchildren, who work at the company, have brought winemaking to a new level.
A state heritage listing announced last Friday will help protect the site in years to come.
Officials at the state administration of cultural heritage (SACH) announced that regular inspections and random checks would be carried out along the estimated 13,000 miles (21,000km) of wall to ensure local municipalities are following national protection measures introduced a decade ago.
And not a new title with Myst heritage — Cyan announced its new VR game Firmament last week.
The UK government can put forward one site per calendar year to be considered for Unesco world heritage site status and on Tuesday the heritage minister Michael Ellis announced that it would be Gwynedd's slate landscape.
This disarray has led UNESCO, which considers the islands to be a world heritage site, to announce that it will send a delegation next month.
Historic England, which is preparing to issue guidelines on "contested heritage", will this week announce an annual commission for artworks to confront Bristol's slave-trading past.
