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This week: Turkey and Syria. As the countries reel from the devastation of the 6 February earthquake, how can communities and agencies protect damaged heritage? We talk to Aparna Tandon from Iccrom, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property about culture\\u2019s significance in the humanitarian response to the crisis. As Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle arrives at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, we take a tour of the show\\u2019s key moments with its curator, Eleanor Nairne. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is a Germantown \\u201ceye-dazzler\\u201d blanket, made between 1895 and 1905 by a Din\\xe9 weaver from the Navajo Nation. It\\u2019s part of a new show at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest. Hadley Jensen, the curator of the exhibition, tells us more.

Disasters Emergency Committee\\u2019s Turkey-Syria Earthquake: dec.org.uk; a PDF of Aparna Tandon\\u2019s handbook First Aid To Cultural Heritage In Times Of Crisis is available for free at iccrom.org.

Alice Neel: Hot off the Griddle, Barbican Art Gallery, London, until 21 May. The book accompanying the exhibition is published by Prestel, priced \\xa324.99 or $29.95.

Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest, Bard Graduate Center, New York, until 9 July. An online exhibition featuring an interactive catalogue has approximately 250 items from the American Museum of Natural History\\u2019s collection of Navajo textiles will be available later this month at bgc.bard.edu.

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