October 24, 2018
…Unique Architectural Accomplishment Nabu Museum, https://www.nabumuseum.com/home. The Nabu Museum collection is housed in a multistory, weathering steel, rusty-orange patinated, stylized cuboid structure. The building would be heavy and foreboding without…
February 24, 2016
…Age sites from the slight unnatural variations in the landscape below perceptible with the human eye. Image: Dr. Sarah Parcak, author Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/15028192448/…
April 10, 2014
…though, let me congratulate Bill Pearlstein on the comprehensive White Paper he prepared for the Committee for Cultural Policy addressing the current state of affairs. While I do not share…
July 27, 2015
…by a Chinese bidder who then refused to pay. The zodiac heads were from the Yves St. Laurent-Pierre Berge collection. Pinault’s companies have significant business interests in China. Images: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/Gold-ornaments-returned-from-France-go-on-display-in-Gansu/shdaily.shtml…
December 29, 2017
…have continued without delay.) On December 30, Puigdemont demanded that the newly-elected Catalonian government reinstate him and all other elected officials. Photo credit: Rosa Matas, http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/lleida/20171203/433330601164/museu-lleida-7-piezas-expuestas-sijena.html. According to Sebastiaan Faber…
October 5, 2017
…on Pompeii as a place of the contemporary.” Reproduction of a statue of a faun in Pompeii.[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugeniayjulian/ Eugenia & Julian] Title: Casa del Fauno, Pompei, Italy. Taken on: 2005-06-25. Everything…
August 13, 2016
…public. (Try Googling “Chuck Norris” and “Self-Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh.” It’s not nearly old enough to qualify, but you get the idea.) Images: Heliogabalus, Musei Capitolini, Rome; Eminem, http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/eminem/images/228036/title/eminem-photo;…
October 2, 2021
…returned to the Kabul Museum. “Johnny Eskenazi on the cultural casualties of the Afghan war: An evening with Kalashnikovs and the Begram ivories,” The Art Newspaper, December 31, 2001, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2002/01/01/johnny-eskenazi-on-the-cultural-casualties-of-the-afghan-war-an-evening-with-kalashnikovs-and-the-begram-ivories…
January 18, 2020
…would fight fire with fire. It calls to mind the novel, “Fahrenheit 451”, but alas, objects can’t be memorized. For more information: Website www.cinoa.org Erika Bochereau: [email protected] Clinton Howell: clintonrhowell@gmail.com…
February 27, 2020
…fence, Tohono O’odham Nation. photo Evan616, 8 February 2017, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, Wikimedia Commons. The O’odham are quick to point out that they already work to…