Graham Bowley

Sixteen years ago today, Chechnya lost Natalia Estemirova and I lost my mum. She was kidnapped in broad daylight and murdered several hours later. Sixteen years without justice. Sixteen years of reliving that agonising day.

A Film About a Murdered Russian Activist Takes Its Own Risks nytimes.com/2025/06/25/mov…

Some news... A Smithsonian Museum Director Steps Down in Wake of Trump’s ‘Firing’ nytimes.com/2025/06/13/art…

Defying Trump’s Firing, Smithsonian Says It Controls Personnel Decisions. nytimes.com/2025/06/09/art…

One of DOGE's casualties was most of the small team that cares for the nation's sprawling art collection. Now, a Trump friend wants to loan out the works to museums and governments around the world. Me today with the great @rpogrebin & @Graham_Bowley: nytimes.com/2025/06/08/art…

Our story today -- Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection nytimes.com/2025/06/08/art…

Smithsonian’s Reaction to Trump’s Firing of Its Museum Director: Silence nytimes.com/2025/06/03/art…

Met Museum Surrenders Artifacts Thought Looted From Iraq nytimes.com/2025/05/19/art…

Honouring the greatest 🐐

Vardy scores 200th Leicester goal in farewell win bbc.in/43164iC

Ava DuVernay Defends a Smithsonian Under Fire From Trump nytimes.com/2025/05/09/art…

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2025/05/06/art…

In important ruling today in NYC about Art Institute of Chicago >>>> Museum Told to Surrender Schiele Drawing to Heirs of Man Killed by Nazis nytimes.com/2025/04/23/art…

Cleveland Museum of Art returns a Bubon statue to Turkey -- nytimes.com/2025/02/14/art…

REWARD: the reward for information leading to the recovery of the precious Dacian objects, stolen a few weeks ago in the Netherlands, has been raised to EURO 250.000 by Alex van Breemen, a Dutch businessman living in Romania. Contact Dutch Police or me. Please retweet..

my story today nytimes.com/2025/02/04/art…

Also: In defiance of Rubio’s order, USAID in Ukraine has temporarily held off issuing “stop work” orders until it could provide clarity for its partners, according to the email and officials at some of those partner organisations.

story today nytimes.com/2025/01/17/art…