Ancient Art & Antiques
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...
Palestine acquired its first World Heritage site last week when UNESCO added the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to its "World Heritage in Danger" list. As ARTINFO France previously reported, the World Heritage committee...
A developing international interest in tribal artefacts has sparked a global hunt for rare Australian Aboriginal objects in auctions all over the world. Rare and early shields, spears and boomerangs have proven particularly popular with collectors and...
In 2007, Taliban forces drilled into the face and torso of a 1,500-year-old Buddha relief in Jahanabad, Pakistan, injecting explosives. The dynamite in the shoulders of the 20-foot-tall carving failed to go off, but the charges in the face exploded, sheering...
When UNESCO's World Heritage Committee begins meeting in St. Petersburg today, the agenda will include considering nominations of 36 sites for the World Heritage List. This sounds like business as usual — except that one of those sites has unusual historical...
Adelaide based auction house Theodore Bruce Auctions took another step into the big league last week when their 12th June Australian Aboriginal and Oceanic Art sale produced results that rival those of the bigger Australian auction houses.Carefully curated by...
The sport of baseball is America’s favorite pastime in part because, in its relatively short 155-year history, it has managed to leave its mark in all areas of the nation’s culture, from fashion and advertising to media and art. Los Angeles's Craft and Folk...
On Monday 18 June, Australian auction house Mossgreen will hold an auction of fine Chinese, Japanese and South East Asian arts. Comprising 186 lots, the collection covers Chinese ceramics, ivories and jades, through to Japanese ceramics, lacquer and...
The Eurozone may be in tatters, and Greece about to return to the drachma, but on Monday very different matters were at hand. A debate organized by Intelligence Squared held at London's Cadogan Hall and screened live at the Acropolis Museum in Athens...
Archaeologists have discovered over 8,000 terracotta warriors at the site of the Qin Emperor’s mausoleum in Xi’an, China, and nine of those are currently on view at the Discovery Times Square museum’s “Terracotta Warriors: Defenders of China’s First Emperor...
