Wednesday 1 April 2009

Looting Matters On The Buses


Looting Matters has taken out advertising on London buses in a bid to popularise the debate about the antiquities market. This has generated a huge amount of interest.

The initial service is serving Gower Street and the museums in the Bloomsbury area.

"We should give it all back", said Sheila Jones, 52, of Ealing, West London, while waiting for the 29C service.

Martyn Ffewkes-Smith, 26, was even more enthusiastic. "I pulled out my iPhone and looked up the site. I had never really thought about the issues before."

The advertising is being rolled out from the start of April. While "Looting Matters" is unable to comment on the financial backers for the project, the design team at CMH Associates are delighted with the finished campaign.

5 comments:

samarkeolog said...

That's great. I look forward to seeing it around.

DR.KWAME OPOKU said...

COULD WE HAVE SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THIS MATTER,ESPECIALLY AS REGARDS HOW WE CAN HELP?

DR.KWAME OPOKU.

Liz Marlowe said...

I mentioned this and even showed the image at the end of a talk I just finished giving (about Roman Art History and the antiquities scandal) at the Roman Archaeology Conference at Michigan and was told by an audience member that I'd been duped by an April Fool's Day joke. True?

David Gill said...

Liz
Please check the date of the original posting.
Best wishes
David

David Gill said...

For the record I must add this link from CultureGrrl.

The Stern Collection in New York: Cycladic or Cycladicising?

Courtesy of Christos Tsirogiannis There appears to be excitement about the display of 161 Cycladicising objects at New York's Metropolit...