SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Martha Colburn: Triumph of the Wild, a New Media Series installation by artist and filmmaker Colburn. The 10-minute animated film (2008-09) presents the history of American war from Bunker Hill to B…
Ancient World Dictionary Finished – After 90 Years
By: Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
CHICAGO (AP).- It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language that would reveal an ancient world of chariots and con…
British Museum Announces Acquisition and Display of Ancient Iraqi Ivories
LONDON (AP).- And then there were some — lots, in fact. The British Museum announced Monday it has acquired 6,000 ancient carved ivories that were excavated in Iraq with the help of mystery maven Agatha Christie. The pieces were found at the site…
Authorities in Iraq Finds Missing Artifacts in Premier’s Storage
BAGHDAD (AP).- More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister’s office, the antiquities minister said Monday. The 638 items incl…
Authorities in Iraq Finds Missing Artifacts in Premier’s Storage
BAGHDAD (AP).- More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister’s office, the antiquities minister said Monday. The 638 items incl…
Iraq Finds Missing Artifacts in Premier’s Storage
BAGHDAD (AP).- More than 600 ancient artifacts that were smuggled out of Iraq, recovered and lost again have been found misplaced among kitchen supplies in storage at the prime minister’s office, the antiquities minister said Monday. The 638 items incl…
Baghdad, 5 March 2007: A New Display with Jeremy Deller
LONDON.- The Imperial War Museum London will display a car salvaged from the bombing of the historic Al-Mutanabbi street book market in Baghdad. The bombing on 5 March 2007 killed thirty-eight people and wounded many more, and is viewed as an attack on…
Baghdad, 5 March 2007: A New Display with Jeremy Deller
LONDON.- The Imperial War Museum London will display a car salvaged from the bombing of the historic Al-Mutanabbi street book market in Baghdad. The bombing on 5 March 2007 killed thirty-eight people and wounded many more, and is viewed as an attack on…
Google Announces Planned Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures
BAGHDAD (AP).- Google is documenting Iraq’s National
Museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early
next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced. The museum was ransacked in the
chaotic aftermath of Saddam Huss…
Iraq’s Artists Reflect Pain, Trauma of the War and Uncertainty
BAGHDAD (AP).-
Iraq’s artists are using their work to try to process the
turmoil
since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing
shows a
profound anger over their country’s traumas and uncertainty over
its
…