Monday, 7 July 2008
Iraq: Looting Still a Problem
Martin Bailey's report on Iraq for The Art Newspaper continues to generate discussion (see my earlier comments). Larry Rothfield has drawn attention to last week's report by Andrew Lawler in Science that reminds us of the on-going looting of archaeological sites in Iraq.
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The Stern Collection of Cycladicising Figures
My review article on the Stern collection of Cycladicising figures currently on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has bee...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh... -
The Fire of Hephaistos exhibition included "seven bronzes ... that have been linked to the Bubon cache of imperial statues" (p. 1...
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