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Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 31st, 2015. Presence and Absence at the Gardner Museum. My son and I looking into the Garden Court at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, March 2015. On how Mrs. Gardner (called “Mrs. Jack” by her friends) is a “female subject” that visitors encounter when they visit the space. Roman marble throne, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, n.d. Detail of Titian Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Mrs Gardner’s presence and absence was also included in the museum...
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French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015. French Art at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Café Volpini poster, cover and front page for Volpini exhibition, 1889. Image courtesy Wikipedia. As a result, journalists were sure to pass by the café and see the art on display. Although the Café Volpini show was a flop from an economic standpoint, the artists must have gotten some exposure by being on the fair grounds, given that an overwhelmingly impressive number of people – 28 million! To prepare for t...
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Tapestries and Social Metaphors | Alberti’s Window
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An Art History Blog. Saturday, April 11th, 2015. Tapestries and Social Metaphors. Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread, Park Armory, New York, 2012-2013. Photo by James Ewing. The interconnectedness of individuals is especially apparent to me in Ann Hamilton’s installation “the event of a thread”. Of people rather than of any sort of barrier between them. You can see some videos of this installation HERE. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 1 There are several different accounts that report when some of the...
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An Art History Blog. Thursday, May 28th, 2015. The Bricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. The Ziggurat of Ur (photo taken 2005). Original structure built c. 2100 BCE. Image courtesy Wikipedia via user Hardnfast. Recently I learned a few interesting points about the mudbricks of the Ziggurat of Ur. This ziggurat was built around 2100 BCE by the king Ur-nammu and his son Shulgi (see a reconstruction drawing of the structure and a map of the original complex HERE. Such fired bricks weighed up to thirty-three pounds.
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Defending National Treasures Page. September 2, 2011 · 1:23 pm. UNESCO Urges Protection of Libyan Heritage. On August 25, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, urged Libyans and art dealers and collectors around the world to protect Libyan heritage during this period of upheaval. But will these statements have any impact in the absence of real enforcement through international organizations like UNESCO or Interpol? Join 7 other followers. The Modigliani made famous by the Panama papers. nyti&...
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antiquities | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. April 28, 2011 · 2:24 pm. Yale returns artifacts to Peru. More than 350 objects returned to Peru on Wednesday, March 30. According to Yale Daily News, Peruvian president Alan Garcia was “profoundly satisfied” to see the return of the once disputed artifacts. The next shipment of objects is scheduled for December 2011. Http:/ www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/mar/31/first-artifacts-return-to-peru/. Accessed April 28, 2011). Join 7 other followers. Quoted in the LA Times to...
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Retired Academic Arrested in Israel for Alleged Antiquities Trafficking | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. Yale returns artifacts to Peru. NATO won’t rule out bombing World Heritage Sites in Libya →. May 20, 2011 · 3:14 pm. Retired Academic Arrested in Israel for Alleged Antiquities Trafficking. Lund eared a Doctor of Education degree from Brigham Young University in 1972. He has taught as an adjunct history instructor at several universities in Utah, Washington and California, and Idaho, and is author of. Sources: Daily Herald, May 19, 2011, http:/ bit.ly/lLfUyX. The latest...
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Nazi plunder | Contested Cultural Property
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Defending National Treasures Page. Category Archives: Nazi plunder. August 24, 2011 · 3:33 pm. It’s About Time: Heirs Challenge MoMA’s Right to Hold Nazi-Era Paintings. On August 23, 2011, Patricia Cohen of. The New York Times. Examined a restitution claim brought against MoMA by the heirs of George Grosz, an Expressionist painter who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. (“Family’s Claim Against MoMA Hinges on Dates”). Merely declare noble intentions; they are non-binding, without the force of law. With the heirs ...
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Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture. Judith H. Dobrzynski. A Master, A Mysterious Girl and An Unsolved Question. August 16, 2016. By Judith H. Dobrzynski. When I traveled to Berlin earlier this summer, I spent about four and half hours at the Gemaldegalerie (not enough time)–a full hour of which was spent looking at Portrait of a Young Girl (1470) by Petrus Christus. It’s the subject of the “Masterpiece” column I wrote for The Wall Street Journal, and was published […]. 08/16/16 11:51 PM filed under: Artworks.
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The Art and Crime Gazette. Thursday, August 25, 2016. Fakes, Frauds and. Iridescent Art News By John Firestone. Art news including art thefts from Pennsylvania art student. This and Art Hostage are self decsribed by the blogger as: The only blog to do what it says on the Tin, reveal the truth about art crime investigation. Art blog reports art news around the world. Searchable for art crimes suchy as thefts, fakes, vandalism, graffiti etc. Fakes, Frauds, Forgeries. Blog on Art fakes. The Art Law Blog.
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