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Saturday, March 17th, 2012
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Disaster management has become a more widely discussed topic in recent years. It is not necessarily that there are more devastating catastrophe happening, but that it is discussed and reacted upon in a different way. Word wide connections have grown stronger and a sense of globalnes is starting to settle. ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
economist.comhttp://www.economist.com/node/18709629
The Getty Museum and its antiquities: Collateral damage
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum. By Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 384 pages; $28 and £16.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
THE admirable display of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Getty Villa in Malibu was a ...
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
Charney delivers, essentially, a biography of the altar. As his narrative plainly illustrates, he is only the latest in a long line to find himself consumed by the altar's beauty, obscure meaning and strange history.
Charney speculates that the reproduction placed in the altar is actually a touched-up version of the ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
CRIMINOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY: STUDIES IN LOOTED ANTIQUITIES, by Simon Mackenzie and Penny Green (eds). Oxford, UK, and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2009
via CRIMINOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Peju Layiwola. Benin1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question.Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria Wy Art Editions, 2010. Illustrations.244 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-978-902-703-3.
Reviewed by Joseph Nevadomsky
The Art of Benin Repatriation and the Repatriation of Benin Art
There are several features of this book that deserve review andcomment. First is the title, intriguing and ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
His Heart Is in the Art of Sleuthing
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/arts/design/07wittman.html?pagewanted=all
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: June 6, 2010
There might be a few agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who could sit down at a piano and run through a Chopin Fantasie to calm their nerves, as Robert K. Wittman used to do. But there ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Author Allison Hoover Bartlett on the curious psyche of a rare-book thief
By Matthew Battles | November 8, 2009
Rare books provoke passion in collectors, who expend untold time and treasure in their pursuit. Some surrender their scruples, too.
Take the case of John Charles Gilkey, who stole rare volumes, many ...
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures,
by Robert K. Wittman (Author), John Shiffman (Author)
pre-order this book at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307461475/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Book's release expected June 2010
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
During the darkest days of World War II, a ragtag band of British and American art scholars braved the battlefields of Europe to rescue thousands of cultural treasures from Nazi pillage and the collateral damage of armed conflict. These “monuments men’’ propped up collapsing buildings; repaired battle-scarred frescoes and mosaics; ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Newport-Now.com
Author to Look at Rogue’s Gallery: The Secret History of the Metropolitan Museum
by NEWPORT NOW STAFF on JULY 22, 2009
NEWPORT, R.I. – The Redwood Library and Athenæum will host an author lecture by Michael Gross on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in the Library’s Harrison Room at 50 ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Book Arouses Return of Looted Relics
By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
04-10-2009
In February, two looted Chinese relics were sold at the French house of auction giant Christie's for 14 million euros ($17.92 million). But China had tried to dissuade Christie's from auctioning the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) bronze rabbit and rat head sculptures, because ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Sketching in the details of the Gardner heist
Ulrich Boser's retelling of the greatest art theft in modern times doesn't provide a solution but captures the dedication required to build up an art collection - and to steal it
Kriston Capps guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 February 2009
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
‘Antiquity’ argues past belongs to all
By Claire McHale Milner
“Thy walls defac’d, thy mouldering shrines remov’d/ By British hands…”
With those words, Lord Byron, an ardent supporter of Greek independence, cried out against the British Museum’s acquisition of marble carvings removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin 200 years ago.
Demands for the ...
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