Alongside the clear political fractures that have emerged between and within governments in the region are also less obvious cultural shifts that have quietly begun to transform and redefine the relationship between individuals and state authority.
This April, thanks to the financial support of the Swarovski Foundation, work to restore the statue of Saint Giorgio in Venice to its former glory will be complete.
When Christine Argillet was a child, her father took a photograph of her dressed as the Infante from Velasquez’s painting, and after seeing this, Salvador Dali would take to calling her "La Petite Infante."