Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times)
- British Museums Advised To Dispose Of Unused Art
New York Times A very brief article about If you are asked for a username and password type "egyptnews" in both fields. The Museums Association, founded in 1889 to represent Britain’s museums and galleries, reversed a 30-year ban on selling art and...
- Repatriating Disputed Antiquities
http://www.archaeology.org/0611/etc/president.htmlAn article by Jane C. Waldbaum, President of the Archaeological Institute of America on the Archaeology Magazine website: "By repatriating disputed antiquities, museums will be able to bring even more...
- Who Owns The Past?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm "Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was...
- Defending Unprovenanced Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/fcaet (New York Times) An article about Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "In a wide-ranging interview last week, just a day after he returned from signing a final agreement in Rome, Mr. de Montebello...
- The Antiquities Mess
http://tinyurl.com/aztb3 (New York Times)"The question now is whether the Met's tentative agreement with Italy will lend new energy to the claims of other countries seeking to repatriate antiquities. It probably will. The antiquities market has always...
Egypt
Is it all loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times)
After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March 6, at the New School in New York, Michael Kimmelman, The Times's chief art critic, moderated a discussion about antiquities and their provenance. He opened by delving into the topic of the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old Greek bowl that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently agreed to return to Italy. Here are excerpts, edited for clarity, from the conversation."
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- British Museums Advised To Dispose Of Unused Art
New York Times A very brief article about If you are asked for a username and password type "egyptnews" in both fields. The Museums Association, founded in 1889 to represent Britain’s museums and galleries, reversed a 30-year ban on selling art and...
- Repatriating Disputed Antiquities
http://www.archaeology.org/0611/etc/president.htmlAn article by Jane C. Waldbaum, President of the Archaeological Institute of America on the Archaeology Magazine website: "By repatriating disputed antiquities, museums will be able to bring even more...
- Who Owns The Past?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm "Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was...
- Defending Unprovenanced Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/fcaet (New York Times) An article about Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "In a wide-ranging interview last week, just a day after he returned from signing a final agreement in Rome, Mr. de Montebello...
- The Antiquities Mess
http://tinyurl.com/aztb3 (New York Times)"The question now is whether the Met's tentative agreement with Italy will lend new energy to the claims of other countries seeking to repatriate antiquities. It probably will. The antiquities market has always...