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Roundup: Buddha in NY, Exhibitting Stolen Art

February 19th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker

  • [Arutz Sheva] As several museums have recently lost art to thieves, the Israel Museum is showing art stolen during the Holocaust, including one fascinating Chagall (photo included in the article) I’ve never seen before.

  • Photo: NY Times, from “Inspired by Buddha, Admired as Art.” Money quote: “‘People’s faces looked very calm and peaceful while viewing the sculptures in Tokyo,’ said Hiroko Sakomura, 59, the show’s executive producer. ‘It will be interesting to see what happens in New York, the most powerful, intense metropolis with an emphasis on art.’”
  • [Bangkok Post] The Preah Vihear temple (for worshiping Shiva), which sits on a cliff, needs restoring, but “conservation work has rarely been done at the site, partly because of adjacent minefields left by the wars in Cambodia.” The director of the Thai Archeology Office says “‘In the field of arts and culture, we all know that the work has no frontier because the site belongs to humanity.” (Added bonus, learn the word ‘anastylosis.’

  • Image: ABC, of Saint John’s Bible, the first bible in nearly 500 years to be created completely by hand. See here for more information.
  • [Belfast Telegraph] A humorous account by Mark Hughes of Smart Arts: A guide to bluffing contemporary art.

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