Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Michaelle Jean, Canada’s Governor General plans to make a visit to the New Acropolis Museum during a trip to Athens. From: Athens News Agency 11/02/2009 Canada’s Gov. General in Olympia The Governor General of Canada, Michaelle Jean, on Friday evening visited the “Art Matters” forum in Athens along with her Canadian filmmaker husband Jean-Daniel Lafond, with the focus on possible...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Whist on a visit to Athens, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, will be shown around the New Acropolis Museum. From: Athens News Agency 11/02/2009 UN chief in Athens United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Athens on Tuesday to take part in a conference focusing on Inter-faith dialogue. On Wednesday, Ban Ki Moon will address [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Anthony Snodgrass – Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles responds to Simon Jenkins’s earlier article about the New Acropolis Museum. From: The Guardian Letters New home for the Parthenon marbles The Guardian, Tuesday 27 October 2009 I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I’m sure it [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Following the change in Greece’s government a few weeks ago, the new Culture & Tourism Minister has announced that the intentions to vigorously pursue the campaign to reunify all the surviving Parthenon sculptures in the New Acropolis Museum. From: Athens News Agency 10/27/2009 Culture ministry priorities Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos underlined Monday that his top priority...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
There have been many positive reviews of the New Acropolis Museum since its opening last June. As with any piece of art (or architecture) it is not to everyone’s taste. Simon Jenkins who has in the past spoken out in support of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures clearly falls into the latter camp. Unfortunately [...]
The Life and Times of the 21st Century Housewife© (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
We visited the New Acropolis Museum again on Saturday and also the Temple of the Olympian Zeus, where we all got a severe attack of the giggles - much to the chagrin of everyone who saw us. I’m still not exactly sure what we were giggling about - something to do with the rain, my very small flowered umbrella and the massive columns of the temple, one of which had sadly fallen over some years...
Illicit Cultural Property (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Call for papers for a conference on Museums and Restitution in July: Museums and Restitution International Conference 8-9 July 2010, University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ museumsandrestitution/ Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue...
Kalofagas - Greek Food & Beyond (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
One of the highlights of my trip to Greece this past summer was my visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens. The word “acropolis” refers to the highest point in a city or town. There are other “acropolises” in Greece – Athens’ is the most well-known. The Acropolis of Athens is a limestone rock with [...] Related posts: Greek Food Gazette 06/26/2009 The “Real...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
On Wednesday evening I attended a party at Vitra celebrating the publication of a long overdue monograph on architect Jean Tschumi, written by Jacques Gubler and published by Skira . Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale documents the brief career of the Swiss architect who eschewed his Beaux Arts training in favor of "the polemical field of modernity and its technological expression."...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Since its opening a few months ago, the New Acropolis Museum has become the strongest argument for the reunification of the surviving Parthenon Marbles in one place, raising their international profile, at the same time as making the case for their return even clearer. You can listen to this original radio broadcast here. From: WBUR (Boston) Greece Unveils Museum [...]
The Life and Times of the 21st Century Housewife© (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Today I stood in the shadow of the Acropolis in awe. I have dreamed of standing here for so long (seriously, I actually dreamed it nights from the time I was about ten!) and today I climbed the (very big) hill and stood in the footsteps of history. Wow. God is amazing - he does make dreams come true; you just have to have a little patience. Actually, it was a lot better than I dreamed. I didn’t...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Architectural Record argues that the New Acropolis Museum represents the most powerful case yet for the reunification of all the surviving Parthenon Sculptures in Athens. From: Architectural Record New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece Bernard Tschumi Architects presents a case for bringing the Elgin Marbles back to Athens in its design for the New Acropolis Museum. By Suzanne Stephens After all...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I'm sure it wasn't he who chose to put that offensive phrase in his headline ( A banana republic police HQ maybe, but not a home for the Elgin marbles , 23 October). But his piece did contain more than its fair share of anti-Greek prejudice. The Greeks were "foolish" to turn down the offer of a loan of the Elgin marbles...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
[ December 11, 2009; ] Submissions are invited for abstracts for a conference on Museums & Restitution to be held at the University of Manchester on 8th & 9th July 2010. Any abstracts should be submitted by 11th December 2009. From: Kostas Arvanitis (by email) Call for papers Museums and Restitution International Conference 8-9 July 2010, University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/museumsandrestitution/...
Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Artist Nancy Spero has died. As has longtime Architectural Design (AD) editor Monica Pidgeon. Theorist Peter Weibel and art historian Hans Belting have won prizes. According to ARTINFO, “a fire destroyed 90 percent of the estate of Brazilian neoconcretist Helio Oiticica.” And according to NPR, “The new Acropolis Museum is a stunning rebuttal” to the notion that [...]
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