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"New Acropolis Museum" in All Posts 1
Rogue Classicism
… promoting the new Acropolis Museum:
SX-DVU A320 Aegean closeup on Flickr.
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Flavorwire
After inevitable delays -- including the discovery of an ancient Athenian city under the building cite -- The New Acropolis Museum is open for business, packing in visitors to the historic but semi-rundown neighborhood of Makrygiann... 3
Illicit Cultural Property
"Everyone understands what is missing".
So says Naya Charmalia, a member of the New Acropolis Museum exhibition team, in a piece today for All Things Considered by Sylvia Poggioli:
Acropolis Museum director Dimitrios Pandermalis... 4
The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
I blogged a bit last month about the Post-Classical Acropolis (in the context, first, of the controversy surrounding Constantine Costa-Gavras film for the new Acropolis Museum and then about A. Kaldellis new book on the Post-Classic... 5
The History Blog
The debate over whether the British Museum should return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece is picking up steam in the wake of recent successful antiquities repatriation campaigns, and the opening of the new, state of the art Acropolis... 6
ArchaeoBlog
A New Way to See Ancient Athens
As building locations go, it is unmatched. What could present more of a challenge than to design a major new structure to stand at the foot of the Acropolis, revered as one of the great architectural ... 7
Looting Matters
I have earlier commented on the way that the New Acropolis Museum will display the architectural marbles from the Parthenon within sight of the fifth century BCE temple on the Athenian acropolis. You will be able to wander down the ... 8
Archaeology in Europe
Greece’s New Acropolis Museum is a formidable rival to the British Museum and has renewed debate about the Elgin Marbles. 'The opening of the New Acropolis Museum was one of the most emotional experiences of my life” says Tina Daska... 9
Looting Matters
Rowan Moore, the architecture critic for London's Evening Standard, has written a piece on his visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens ("Now let's return the Elgin Marbles", June 24, 2009). He is not totally enthusiastic about t... 10
Illicit Cultural Property
"[T]he collection is a miracle". So writes Michael Kimmelman on the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in the NY Times. He notes:
Ownership remains the main stumbling block. When Britain offered a three-month loan of the marble... 11
Intelligent Travel Blog
The New Acropolis Museum, a project that the New York Times called "one of the highest-profile cultural projects undertaken in Europe in this decade," is celebrating its opening day on Saturday after years of planning and labor--33 ... 12
Upturned Earth
by JL Wall
Christopher Hitchens visits the new Acropolis Museum (and the place itself) in Athens, and, as is his wont, writes about it (and the Elgin Marbles). In addition to the replacement of the old museum — “insufficient” is to... 13
Intelligent Travel Blog
Athens's New Acropolis Museum has finally opened. The museum has a view of the Parthenon and a glass floor that shows the archaeological remains underneath. How big are your bags? Illinois congressman Daniel Lipinski recently introd... 14
Huffington Post
The Greeks have been tripping all over themselves trying to be uncharacteristically polite, lest anyone think them rude because the New Acropolis Museum is also a reproach to the British Museum. 15
This Just In
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A few of our favorite links from around the 'net this week:
After delays, Greece's new Acropolis Museum opens, amid an intern... 16
Looting Matters
The President of Greece, Dr Karolos Papoulias, has been quoted in the New York Times ("Greece presses its case", June 22, 2009) in the wake of the opening of The Acropolis Museum. Speaking about the Parthenon he is quoted:It's time ... 17
AmericaBlog.com
I was lucky enough to go to Greece three times in the last year and a half, and not once was the new museum ever open on schedule. Finally, it is, or will be. It's a cool building, unless you hate it. Which a lot of people seem t... 18
Looting Matters
To mark the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens.Shaded marbles is also available here.... 19
Van Gogh's Chair
Today is a special day for all lovers of ancient Greek art: the opening of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. The New York Times has an article and slideshow, as do other news sites online. It is exciting to see the objects install... 20
Archaeology in Europe
Workmen were putting the finishing touches yesterday to Ancient Greece’s newest and most extravagant showcase, the New Acropolis Museum, due for a fanfare-filled inauguration today. But conspicuously absent are the very relics which... |
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