Articles
Who owns antiquity?
2009-03-18 20:47
A. SRIVATHSAN
The world of antiquities is a murky and complex one where ownership is a contested space. Many Indian sculptures (and pieces of architecture) of...
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Acropolis opens to public (ANA)
2009-03-18 20:44
ATHENS NEWS AGENCY, 18/3/2009.
Culture Ministry's employees on Thursday cancelled their 24-hour strike and opened the archaelogical site of the Acropolis for visitors, in an act of good will after reassurances by Culture Minister Antonis...
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The New Acropolis Museum: A dialogue with antiquity
2009-03-11 14:04
By Nicolai Ouroussoff,
ATHENS: No sane architect, one can assume, would want to invite comparisons between his building and the Parthenon. So it comes as little surprise that the New Acropolis Museum, which stands at the foot of one of the...
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15 years without Melina Mercouri
2009-03-06 23:42
March 6, 2009.
Fifteen years have been passed without Melina Mercouri. Melina died in 1994 at the Memorial Hospital of New York, at the age of 73, from lung cancer. When her body returned to her beloved country, she was buried at the First Cemetery...
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Acropolis workers strike shuts down monument (AP)
2009-02-26 19:18
ATHENS, GREECE (AP): Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis — one of Europe's most famous cultural sites — found themselves met at the gate by striking guards explaining why they had shut the place down.
The antiquities...
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Eight Reasons: Why the Parthenon Sculptures must be returned to Greece
2009-02-25 11:31
by Nicolas Mottas.
The date has been announced. On June 20th, the New Acropolis Museum of Athens will be inaugurated, opening its gates to the public. Crouching at the foot of the Acropolis rock, the brand new Museum is consisting the forefront of...
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China tries to halt Yves Saint Laurent art sale - Times Online
2009-01-21 14:33
Son and Father. The 'glorious' actions of the Eight Seven of Earl in China, quite similar to those of his father (Lord Elgin) in Greece.
by Charles Bremner in Paris and Jane Macartney in Beijing.
China is trying to block the sale in Paris of two...
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Ownership of ancient treasures focus of talk
2009-01-10 14:21
Western museums are facing a fight for many centuries-old objects.
by Jessie-Lynn Kerr.
The battle over who owns ancient treasures will be the subject of a lecture by author and award-winning journalist Sharon Waxman at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the...
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MPs Pushing Elgin's Marbles Back To Greece - Sky News
2009-01-08 14:29
by Alastair Bruce.
Two MPs championing the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece this year, to mark the opening of a new museum at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, have sent letters out this week to all their fellow legislators recruiting...
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The New Acropolis Museum: A home fit for the Elgin Marbles?
2008-12-03 14:55
The soon-to-open museum for the Acropolis sculptures looks fantastic. But will it convince the British Museum to send the Parthenon frieze home?
by Charlotte Higgins.
Last night the president, Dimitrios Pandermalis, and the architect, Bernard...
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