Ancient Art & Antiques
At England's University of Southampton, a sophisticated X-ray machine is being used by archaeologists to make 3-D images of ancient objects while they’re still enclosed in pots, urns, or blocks of soil. Originally developed to scan turbine blades in...
American historians know Shangri-La as a long-retired name for the presidential retreat in Frederick County, Maryland, now known as Camp David. Music buffs know the Shangri-Las as the girl band that popularized the songs “Remember (Walking in the...
Melbourne based coin dealers Coinworks sold a fine example of Australia’s first coin, known as the “Hannibal Head” Holey Dollar, for $410,000 at auction on Monday night at their Eminent Colonials auction.Re-appearing on the market after twenty four years away...
World renowned Australian chalk artist Jenny McCracken became the first Australian to win the coveted title of “Madonnari” at the 40th anniversary of the world’s original street painting festival, Incontro Nazionale dei Madonnari, held in Italy on the 15th of...
Ochre and Ink, a movie celebrating the extraordinary story of the cross-cultural friendship and artistic collaboration of Chinese artist Zhou Xiaoping and Australian Aboriginal artist Johnny Bulunbulun, has captured the hearts of audiences around the world....
On the 19th of August, Australian auction house Mossgreen sold a collection of contemporary Australian and international art alongside contemporary designed furniture and furnishings from the collection of Peter Holmes a Court and Divonne Holmes a Court.The...
Two weeks ago, federal authorities broke open a Manhattan storage unit to discover $20 million worth of allegedly looted ancient bronze and sandstone statues. The cache of suspicious treasure belongs to Subhash Kapoor, an Indian-born, New York-based art...
Two of Australia’s largest public galleries, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), have admitted to acquiring objects from the disgraced New York based, Indian art dealer Mr Subhash Kapoor.63 year old Kapoor...
Italy's Culture Minister Lorenzo Ornaghi unveiled a timetable on Tuesday for an extensive restoration of the Colosseum. In Rome, standing beside mayor Gianni Alemanno and fashion mogul Diego Della Valle, a principal patron of the...
Not much good news comes out of war-torn Afghanistan these days. However, last week did offer a small coup of cultural diplomacy for the UK: With help from the British Museum, England returned 843 looted art objects to the National Museum of Afghanistan in...
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