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NEWS from The Art News Paper, 4 January, 2017: State Hermitage Museum to stage Pompeii show in 2018 Collaboration between Russian and Italian museums marks “important moment in international relations” for ancient site by HANNAH MCGIVERN | 23 November 2016 State Hermitage Museum to stage Pompeii show in 2018 The Hermitage Museum in St Petersbury
from: THE ART NEWS PAPER November 2016 Pergamon Museum renovation costs spiral as reopening is delayed Authorities consider alternative location to show Berlin museum’s prized Pergamon Altar Comment by CATHERINE HICKLEY | 1 November 2016 Pergamon Museum (© Photo: SMB/Maximilian Meisse) The estimated cost of renovating Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has rocketed to €477m, almost double
THE GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM Excerpt from: The Art News Paper, 30 August 2016 by SILVIA MAZZA, HANNAH MCGIVERN The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a gateway to the history of the pharaohs under construction outside Cairo, is attempting to do the impossible: hold its own next to the pyramids of Giza. Egypt’s ministry of
From APOLLO 24 August 2016: What can two Etruscan sarcophagi teach us about ourselves? Phoebe Segal 24 AUGUST 2016 Sarcophagus and lid with portraits of husband and wife (detail; late 4th–early 3rd century BC), Etruscan; Volcanic tuff. Photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In recent years, as the museum world has pursued a
from: THE ART NEWS PAPER DAILY, 24-08-2016 Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria’s director general of antiquities and museums NEWS Almost 70% of smuggled objects seized in Syria and Lebanon are fakes, antiquities chief says In a wide-ranging interview, Maamoun Abdulkarim discussed the realities of illegal trafficking, restoration efforts in Palmyra and his concerns over destruction
From Art News Paper Daily NEWS Gustavo Aceves to install monumental horse sculptures in front of Rome’s Colosseum Travelling exhibition Lapidarium will also be on view at capital city’s Trajan’s Market by CRISTINA RUIZ | 15 August 2016 Gustavo Aceves’s Lapidarium (2016) will go on show in Rome in September. (Image: courtesy of the
German Parliament passes controversial law to protect cultural heritage German culture minister Monika Grütters, speaking here at last year’s Art in Karlsruhe exhibition, has forged ahead with the controversial reform. The German upper house of parliament today (8 July) passed a law aimed at tackling illegal trafficking in looted antiquities and protecting German national heritage,
