June 2012 Archeology - Museums, Crimes, Looted Goods

[Aisling]

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Antico (The Frick Collection):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...879031544.html

Posters of Paris (Milwaukee Art Museum):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55791

Heinrich Kuehn (Neue Gallery, NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...-steichen.html

William Matthew Prior (Fenimore Art Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/ar...-victoria.html

Dead Sea Scrolls (Franklin Institute):
http://weeklypress.com/in-the-beginn...e-p3133-95.htm

Gongora (? In Spanish):
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/20...24_794892.html

Renaissance Venice (Morgan Library & Art Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/ar...ry-museum.html

Theater, Life, and Afterlife (China Institute):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/ar...institute.html

Recent finds from northern China (Clark Art Institute):
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whats...-China/1122796

Cambodia wants a couple of statues back from the Met:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/ar...y-statues.html

The Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has reopened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-18204197

We mentioned this Sotheby’s auction of a Bocklin painting before, I think:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...&int_new=55583

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Dead Sea Scrolls (Franklin Institute):
http://weeklypress.com/in-the-beginn...e-p3133-95.htm

Wish I could see that one!

[Aisling]

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Plenty of coverage of the arrest of a couple of guys found with a gold wreath and other items from a Macedonian style burial:
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/art...wreath-armband

OpEd sort of thing at the ASOR blog about looting:
http://asorblog.org/?p=2333&utm_sour...are-your-ideas

… and one about trafficking in antiquities during wars:
http://www.eurasiareview.com/0806201...-war-analysis/

Some press attention for the WikiLoot project:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...olen-artifacts

Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well (Getty Museum):
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/09...tes-death.html

Lost Egypt (Boston Museum of Science):
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news...eum-of-Science

Churchill: The Power of Words (Morgan Library):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/ar...n-library.html

Tomb Treasure of Han China (Fitzwilliam Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/ar...elikian09.html

Picasso’s Parade:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...iew-in-france/

Rembrandt’s Etchings (Arlington Museum of Art):
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/06...-etchings.html

Klimt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/ar...t-klimt05.html


Looking at Caravaggio’s ‘Denial of St Peter’:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/ar....html?ref=arts

Chinese museums are becoming more ‘outward looking’:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/ar...tholden09.html

Interesting item on Philip Mould, who looks for fake art:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/ar...rtmould09.html

Feature on the Russian Museum of Private Collections:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/ar...tmoscow09.html

Sotheby’s is contesting the seizure of a Cambodian statue:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/20...zure-of-statue

Haven’t had a news followup to this auction of a 9000 years b.p. limestone mask:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,2594457.story

A Napoleonic letter coming to auction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18335017

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More on the arrests associated with that Macedonian burial:
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/08...ient-gold.html

Cleopatra (California Science Center):
http://947thewave.radio.com/2012/06/...rth-your-time/

Rodin (Rodin Museum):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55611

War of 1812 (Canadian War Museum):
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/...-1812-exhibit/

Thracian treasures are coming to the “Louver”:
http://paper.standartnews.com/en/art...&article=39347

DaVinci (Ulster Museum):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18449474

Cerveteri (Louvre Lens Museum):
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/446...etruscan-city/

Heaven, Hell and Dying Well (Getty Museum):
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/...ddle-ages.ashx

Medicine and the Olympic Games of Antiquity:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/science%...cine/art389357

The Bible Lands Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary:
http://www.themedialine.org/news/new...p?NewsID=35352

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How (apparently) they pillage sites in Uzekistan:
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.ph...id=4&nid=20172

Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews (Israel Museum):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?in...1#.T-cA9ZFQBqM

Cleopatra (California Science Center):
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1701782.story

Dawn of Egyptian Art (Metropolitan Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/ar...elikian16.html

Landmarks of New York (Parrish Art Museum):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/ny...rt-museum.html

The Toledo Museum of Art will be returning a 2500 years b.p. kalpis to Italy:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-...ater-jug-italy