Egypt
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00171.htm
- Museums On Trial
http://www.archaeology.org/0603/etc/conversations.html An Archaeology Magazine special interview with Ellen Herscher about the trial of key J. Paul Getty representatives, and its implications for other purchasing policies of US museums in the future:...
- 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...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- Dorak Part 3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00120.htm Third and possibly final part of Mazur's research into the Dorak mystery.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Follow-up To The Dorak Story
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00059.htmThanks to the article's author Suzan Mazur, who emailed to let me know that she has published a follow-up to her original article about the Dorak mystery. I posted a link to the orignal artilce on this...
Egypt
NYT entanglement with Bob Hecht?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00171.htm
Thanks to Suzan Mazur for pointing out her new article at the above address, entitled Add NYT To Bob Hecht Antiquities Ring Organigram?: "While various American antiquities dealers, curators and collectors are 'subjects of interest' of Italian and Greek prosecutors who, in the last year, particularly, have opened the floodgates for the return of their countries' cultural patrimony - the question is: Why not the media?
For instance, there is no finer example of promotion and protection afforded the antiquities trade than New York Times reporter Rita Reif's June 1988 plug for art dealer Bob Hecht in the story titled, "Archaic Smiles Have Persisted for 2,000 Years". Hecht is on trial in Rome for trafficking in ancient art --charged with being one of the capos, if not the mastermind of an international conspiracy.
But the media's entanglement starts much higher up than Reif. It begins with the NYT Sulzberger publishing family and includes its stable of art critics who have for decades serviced Hecht and other dealers selling antiquities without provenience (site from which artifact is plundered or excavated) with their unquestioning reviews of exhibitions and objects."
For instance, there is no finer example of promotion and protection afforded the antiquities trade than New York Times reporter Rita Reif's June 1988 plug for art dealer Bob Hecht in the story titled, "Archaic Smiles Have Persisted for 2,000 Years". Hecht is on trial in Rome for trafficking in ancient art --charged with being one of the capos, if not the mastermind of an international conspiracy.
But the media's entanglement starts much higher up than Reif. It begins with the NYT Sulzberger publishing family and includes its stable of art critics who have for decades serviced Hecht and other dealers selling antiquities without provenience (site from which artifact is plundered or excavated) with their unquestioning reviews of exhibitions and objects."
See the above page for the full story.
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For those of you who haven't run into Scoop before (the website hosting this piece) you can find out about their approach and editorial policy at the following address. An extract is provided below.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/about/
"Scoop is a 'fiercely independent' press release driven Internet news agency accredited to the New Zealand Parliament Press Gallery and also fed by a multitude of Business, Non-Government-Organisation, Regional Government and Public Relations communication professionals. Scoop also publishes a variety of raw, unedited material from national and international commentators while producing its own editorial content on important current issues — often giving voice to perspectives not being addressed through 'traditional media' sources."
- Museums On Trial
http://www.archaeology.org/0603/etc/conversations.html An Archaeology Magazine special interview with Ellen Herscher about the trial of key J. Paul Getty representatives, and its implications for other purchasing policies of US museums in the future:...
- 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...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- Dorak Part 3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00120.htm Third and possibly final part of Mazur's research into the Dorak mystery.Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
- Follow-up To The Dorak Story
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00059.htmThanks to the article's author Suzan Mazur, who emailed to let me know that she has published a follow-up to her original article about the Dorak mystery. I posted a link to the orignal artilce on this...