Exhibitions
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This looks like it’s going to be really really really really good:
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Some hype from the Sydney Morning Herald: AS HEROIC gods go, Dionysus would fit right into Sydney: god of the grape harvest, bringer of culture and ritual ecstasy, he was the mythological inspiration for Alexander the Great, the 4th century BC Macedonian king and spreader of civilisations who is being honoured with his own blockbuster…
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Nice little video report on an exhibition at the Capitoline Museums:
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Last August we read that the Riace Bronzes would (finally) be back on display “in time for Christmas” (Riace Bronzes Back from Vacation Soon) but the Art Newspaper gives a somewhat different impression today … some excerpts: […] Reggio Calabria’s Museo Archeologico Nazionale has been mired in controversy since renovation work began in 2008. This…
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That ancient statuary was coloured is, of course, well known to all who wander through these pages and in recent years (weeks, even) there has been an upsurge in interest, it seems, in ‘recolouring’ things. Accordingly, the Acropolis Museum has mounted an exhibition devoted thereto … here’s a bit from the blurb: Commencing Tuesday 31…
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