This Is Looting by Another Name
Our cultural heritage is being sold off for parts.
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Our cultural heritage is being sold off for parts.
In the quiet of a Peking University research room, shelves groan under the weight of 60 thick volumes. Stacked, they stand taller than an average human. Inside their pages lie the...
'Keeping it Alive' The Beauty of Ancient Languages, A Path to Memory and Identity The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People Hears Testimony as...
Museum says it wants no stolen artwork and that it has initiated an expedited review of hundreds of works tied to specific dealers.
“Lostwave” is the generic terms for songs that no one can identify. The hunt for these tracks is so popular that I did an entire Ongoing History of New Music show on the
Art history now teaches that ‘putting things in categories' is bad-which is how galleries end up feeling like a garage sale.
The CCA went into liquidation in February
When folks say “protect the culture,” they usually mean music, fashion, or social media trends. But across the pond, advocates are reminding the world that the real receipts are si...
Left-wing curators make exhibits of their own stupidity. The post Blight At the Museum appeared first on The American Conservative.
You can smell the old books as characters flip through the pages. You can feel the breeze cutting through the humidity as... The post Lost Chapters first appeared on Film Threat.
Yiddish Glory's new album, resurrecting music from witnesses of the Holocaust, follows a Grammy-nominated debut album. -- The post Lost Holocaust music, nearly erased by Stalin, go...
Since Sudan's civil war began, looters have stolen thousands of valuable artifacts from the country's museums. Now, authorities are trying to get them back.
The ancient statues of the deities Heket and Beset, too heavy to move, were used for target practice.
By D P Curtin, European Conservative. (Image: Public Domain) Before Europe became a collection of nation-states, it was a civilization bound together by scholars, shared learning,...
If you've spent any time wandering the borderlands where technognosis, occulture, and the weirdosphere collide, you already know Erik Davis — a scholar of the weird who has spent...
A trove of Holocaust-era Yiddish songs recorded by Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky survived decades of censorship and near disappearance. Now, a new album revives...
When the artifacts of an artist’s life are collected as an archive, they change from river to reservoir, their ideas no longer circulating in the artist’s mind but left for others...
The Infinity Rooms made Yayoi Kusama world-famous and upstaged the radical work that came before.
Amidst the Great Wealth Transfer, assets of every kind, including art and collectibles, are changing hands. Private Client Select Insurance Services associate specialist of art ser...
"The National Museum of American History is no longer the nation's museum of American history," Spalding said.
Iraq's deputy culture, tourism and antiquities minister Qasem al-Sudani noted that the agency was monitoring the appearance of Iraqi artifacts "at state and private auctions"
Geoffrey O’Brien is one of those writers who can write about anything: opera, British postwar film, crime fiction, the Third Reich, Grant Wood, Patti Smith, Duke Ellington, Seinfel...
Greg Atlas, drawn October 2001 on West 26th St. between 10th Av. and 11th Av. After the attacks, the group Tape Art created 490 silhouettes across the city. [ more › ]
From one of Clara Bow's earliest films to a lost BBC horror show pulled off the air for being "too scary," these five historic films were believed to be lost forever.
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