As violence continues in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, authorities have taken measures to safeguard the city’s art collection inside Le Centre d’Art, one of the oldest art institutions in the Caribbean. The museum has been threatened as gangs have seized control of the surrounding area, but a two-day operation is reported to have successfully moved most of the 6,000 artworks and 3,600 documents to safety.
Further news can be found here at Artnet News.
Image of Le Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, prior to the 2010 earthquake. Photo by Cristian Borquez, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license).
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