Author Topic: September 2014 Archeology - Museums, Crimes, Looted Goods (Read 1004 times)

Aisling · « **on:** September 07, 2014, 06:52:19 pm »

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Latest twist in the Gurlitt case:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29085509

Brief/vague item on the arrest of a couple of smugglers/diggers in Tunis:
http://www.africanmanager.com/171411.html

Three European metal detectorists arrested in Agrigento:
http://www.strettoweb.com/2014/09/agrigento-denunciati-3-tombaroli-cercavano-reperti-metal-detector/182776/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=agrigento-denunciati-3-tombaroli-cercavano-reperti-metal-detector (Italian)

Tut:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/7130/47/Tutankhamun-in-Tokyo.aspx

Jerusalem of Gold:
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Jerusalem-of-Gold-shines-at-parley-374527

Indian Chintzes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/29/arts/design/at-peabody-essex-300-years-of-indian-chintzes.html?ref=design

Jane Austen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/arts/design/jane-austen-artifacts-at-the-morgan-library-and-in-england.html?ref=design

Private museums in Turkey are on the rise:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/boost-in-the-number-of-private-museums-in-turkey-.aspx?pageID=449&nID=71228&NewsCatID=519

Prague’s toilet museum might be of interest:
http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2014/09/02/The-throne-room-Museum-of-toilets/

A major collection of Parthian coins is coming to auction:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=72571

Aisling · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2014, 09:44:40 pm »

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Archaeologist’s Eye:
http://www.redandblack.com/variety/artist-recreates-parthenon-s-surfaces-before-its-destruction/article_cb73da78-3ade-11e4-ba59-001a4bcf6878.html

Body Beautiful:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/body-beautiful-exhibition-in-bendigo-revisits-ancient-greece/story-fn9n8gph-1227054244540?nk=f882ee8c21e428707f90e9e870a968ba#mm-premium

Ming:
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21616882-new-exhibition-shows-how-much-being-learned-about-formation-china-mighty-ming?fsrc=rss%7Cbar

Etruscans:
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/09-10/133703.shtml

Classical Sculpture in Color:
http://www.thelocal.dk/20140911/museum-to-expose-white-lies-of-antiquity

Discovering Tutankhamen:
http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Europe/2014/09/12/21936466.html?cid=rsstravelfeatures

Persian Calligraphy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/arts/design/calligraphy-as-visual-poetry.html?_r=0

Tiffany Glass:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/arts/design/casting-the-glow-of-tiffany-far-and-wide.html

The Jewish Museum in Brussels has reopened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-eu-29164962

The skeleton of ‘Blodwen’ is returning to North Wales a century later:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-29122676

The Getty returned a Byzantine manuscript to Mount Athos:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/09/11/return-of-byzantine-manuscript-to-mount-athos/

Aisling · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2014, 02:37:14 pm »

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An Archaeologist’s Eye:
http://artdaily.com/news/72811/Georgia-Museum-of-Art-opens-two-new-exhibitions#.VB71cFfCe9Z

Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/art-entangled-in-nature.html?_r=0

Ming:
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/513171/Ming-50-years-that-changed-China-exhibition

Ancient Alalakh:
http://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2014/09/20/archeology-exhibition-sheds-light-on-the-ancient-citystate-of-alalakh

Assyria to Iberia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/arts/design/assyria-to-iberia-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

Persian Calligraphy:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-before-emojis-picassos-persion-caligraphy-bought-emotion-writing-180952693/?utm_source=feedburner&no-ist

Aztecs:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-aztecs-invade-the-australian-museum-20140915-10gzs8.html

Mochica Kings:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-perus-ancient-artifacts-to-be-on-display-in-switzerland-103906

Matisse:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29204277

Changes are coming to the Louvre:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/The-Louvres-director-JeanLuc-Martinez-reveals-revolutionary-changes-ahead/35180

The Wallace Collection’s Great Gallery has reopened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29281137

Feature on the best museums in the world:
http://time.com/3393565/best-museums-trip-advisor/

Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses get a festival:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/09/14/347981550/howling-babies-drove-prehistoric-warriors-into-battle

Germany has returned some stolen parts of the Great Pyramid:
http://www.thelocal.de/20140918/germans-return-stolen-fragments-of-great-pyramid-to-egypt

Some rare Chinese tomes were stolen from Cornell’s library:
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/public-safety/0001/01/01/cornell-reports-rare-books-stolen/15911653/

Aisling · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2014, 02:47:21 pm »

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Art and Craft:
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/27/351738720/art-craft-explores-how-one-forger-duped-more-than-45-museums

Alalakh:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeology-and-photography-at-ancient-alalakh.aspx?pageID=238&nID=72035&NewsCatID=375

Roman Ostia:
http://artdaily.com/news/73143/Estorick-Collection-of-Modern-Italian-Art--London-opens--Roman-Ostia--Ancient-Ruins--Modern-Art-

Witches and Wicked Bodies:
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/The-British-Museum-Presents-WITCHES-AND-WICKED-BODIES-925-111-20140926

Nation to Nation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/nation-to-nation-full-of-the-intriguing-often-maddening-details-of-history/2014/09/23/a46b9aca-4019-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

Classical Sculpture in Color:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=73107

Splendors of Han:
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/09-23/135664.shtml

Assyria to Iberia:
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2014/assyria-to-iberia

Banners of the North:
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/09/22/banners-of-the-north/

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