May 2012 Archeology - Museums, Looted Goods, and Crimes

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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Maya 2012 (Penn Museum, PA):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55175

Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China (Fitzwilliam Museum):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-17910197

Byzantium and Islam (Metropolitan Museum of Art):
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/201...age-transition

Antico (The Frick Collection):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=55083

White Gold: Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins:
http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/pr...=794&term=%200

Terracotta Warriors (Discovery Times Square):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55091

Burr and his Contemporaries (Grolier Club, NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/ar...lier-club.html

Vuillard:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/ar...e-gallery.html

The Asmolean has acquired an important textile from Mohammed’s tomb:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=55099

The Stobhall Castle auction exceeded expectations:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-17938207

The National Museum in Afghanistan has an exhibition about the Bamiyan Buddhas:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...b1640016c6.a71

Job cuts at the Getty:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...0,182954.story

Pondering the recent auction of ‘The Scream’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/ar...s-auction.html

Results of an Impressionist sale:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/ar...7-million.html

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A New York antiquities dealer is suspected of smuggling Indian antiquities:
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/425...g-antiquities/

A Stradivarius scam:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-832274.html

The Search for Immortality (Fitzwilliam Museum):
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-immorta...han-china.html



DSS (Franklin Institute, Philadelphia):
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_...philly-exhibit

Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology (Institute of Archeology, London):
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cal...icles/20120510

Golden Age of Renaissance Bronze (Frick Collection):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b512b220-9...44feabdc0.html

Maya 2012 (Penn Museum, PA):
http://www.philly.com/philly/enterta...mpid=138887484

Connecting Cultures (Brooklyn Museum):
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibi...ting_cultures/

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Vandals damaged some Roman stonework at a Scarborough castle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-nor...-statue-belsen

Christian monuments are threatened in Iran, apparently:
http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php...ans&Itemid=279

There’s a new director at the Smithsonian:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...7a136572c8bff2

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Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well (Getty Center):
http://www.presstelegram.com/lifesty...s-death-middle

Tutankhamun (Pacific Science Center):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55630

Cleopatra (California Science Center):
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_20703150...life-cleopatra

Aphrodite and the Gods of Love (Getty Villa):
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/...-long-staying/

Lod Mosaic (Columbus Museum of Art):
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...floor-you.html

Maya - Secrets of Their Ancient World (Canadian Museum of Civilization):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55488

William Prior:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...-victoria.html

Klimt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...niversary.html

Beer Here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...l-society.html

Heinrich Kuehn:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...-steichen.html

Persistence of Pollock:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/ny...ner-house.html

The Diary:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/ar...n/22diary.html

The Cleveland Museum of Art isn’t giving much credence to Turkey’s latest claims:
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index....22_treasu.html

Feature on the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne:
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15978326,00.html

A 9000 years b.p. Neolithic mask from the Judean desert is coming to auction:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84M1AV20120523

The Boston MFA has received a major donation of photos and other items:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...d-other-works/

Hype for the new Parrish Art Museum:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...g-in-november/

Discussion of a bill focussing on ‘borrowed art’:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/ar...o-museums.html