Exhibitions
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A unique archaeological exhibition has opened in Caesarea harbor: for the first time the general public can see an extraordinary 1,700 year old sarcophagus cover that is one of the most impressive ever discovered in Caesarea. The cover, which weighs more than 4 tons, is decorated with snake-haired medusa heads and joyful and sad-faced masks.…
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More news on the benefits the Getty is receiving from its agreement with Italy … the incipit of a brief item from Reuters: California’s Getty Museum, one of the world’s richest art institutions, has received the first two artworks from Italy under a deal that settled a 2006 dispute over looted antiquities. Getty officials said…
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Cleaning out the rest of the inbox … A new roof for Newport Roman Villa: Roofing work starts at Roman villa (County Press) Coverage of Richard Seaford’s thoughts about Greek money at the Classical Association: Ancient Greeks could throw light on financial crisis, says professor Coverage of the “Subversive Classics” session at Princeton: Down on…
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Somewhat tangential to our purview, but dealing with an exhibition I”m likely to go to (the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum), we are just starting to hear rumblings of this … an excerpt from the Toronto Star: The Conservative government is staying mum on a letter from senior Palestinian officials opposing a…
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One of the nice things about these four-day weekends is that I have time to check out things that are of interest to me. In this case, an item in the LA Times blog notes (inter alia): Chalk it up to an over-eager marketing team at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. On Wednesday,…
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