Archaeologist To Publicly Spank The Met Over Antiquities
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 6:29 PM.
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Colin Renfrew, a British archaeologist who is an authority on the trade in looted antiquities, is preparing to violate the museum world's unwritten rules of politesse by giving a lecture titled Combating the Illicit Antiquities Trade: The 1970 Rule as a Turning Point (or How the Metropolitan Museum Lags Behind the Getty).
Los Angeles Times
The 18th-century Hohenzollern Stadtschloss in Berlin was a hulking, unlovable pile. Even the emperors didn't want to live there. Damaged in WWII, the Schloss was torn down by the East German government and replaced with the Palace of the Republic, which was in turn torn down after German reunification. Now the government wants to rebuild the Schloss, and not everyone likes the idea.
New York Times
When the dusty heirlooms and bric-a-brac of a once-stately French family went under the hammer at a minor auction eight years ago, an anonymous portrait of the Dutch scholar Erasmus sold for €2000... [now] experts have established that the work was the last ever portrait that Holbein painted of an ageing Erasmus, and the painting - one of a tiny minority of Holbein works to be in private hands - is worth millions.
The Independent
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