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Archaeological sites in south Iraq have not been looted, say experts
Martin Bailey - 01/07/2008
Despite widely publicised fears of damage to ancient sites, a team of specialists found that eight of the most important have not been touched after 2003
Issue 193 Art Newspaper
Ancient Art and Deflation
Howard Nowes - 01/25/2009
Art objects and Deflation
The dividend of beauty is hard to put a monetary value on. Pride of ownership aside, antiquities and tribal art is an excellent place to invest your money. It seems that the world needs to adjust to a new financial reality. A few months ago, inflation was a top worry, especially the impact of sky-high fuel prices, but now, although consumers can celebrate falling prices at the gas pump and sales on everyday items, an investors' worry is exactly the opposite. Instead of inflation, the problem is deflation, a downward drift in prices that squeeze profits and investor returns to uncomfortable levels.
Investing in Antiquties FORBES Article
Carrie Coolidge - 01/26/2008
Ancient Art has always been a serious fashionable collectable for educated investors. Michael H. Steinhardt believes there is money in antiquities. The legendardge-fund-manager-turned-full-time-philanthropist has quietly managed to assemble one of the largest and most important antiquities collections in the world. Now, he believes, its time has come."Ancient art has not appreciated much in value for a long time," says Steinhardt. "It has been under a certain
cloud because there are issues of provenance, which have made headlines in the last five- to 10-years and continue
to make headlines.
Now in America Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Press Release - 01/28/2007
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs opens February 3rd at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Over 380,000 tickets have already been sold. A few tickets for opening week are available, buy now to be among the first to see Tutankhamun in Philadelphia! Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs is in London beginning November,...
Forty Years of 'African Arts'
Herbert Cole - 02/01/2007
Herbert M. Cole looks at four decades of "African Arts" at UCLA and what the future may have in store for the journal and the field of African art. Without UCLA there would simply be no "African Arts."Celebrate African Arts, now entering into its fortieth year! Launched ambitiously in 1967, pledging a bilingual survey of all the...
Brooklyn Museum Special Exhibition: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
Press Release - 02/07/2010
Brooklyn Museum Special Exhibition: Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
Long-Term Installation
Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been completed in 1993 to tell the story of Egyptian art from its earliest known origins (circa 3500 B.C.) until the period when the Romans incorporated Egypt into their empire (30 B.C.–A.D. 395). Additional exhibits illustrate important themes about Egyptian culture, including women's roles, permanence and change in Egyptian art, temples and tombs, technology and materials, art and communication, and Egypt and its relationship to the rest of Africa. More than 1,200 objects— comprising sculpture, relief, paintings, pottery, and papyri—are now on view, including such treasures as an exquisite chlorite head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 265 to B.C., a relief from the tomb of a man named Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over five thousand years ago.
Santa Fe Show Tribal Art Show Press Release 2006
Antiques and the Arts Weekly October 6th 2006 - 02/09/2006
Santa Fe Show Press Release 2006 Howard Nowes Ancient Art was a 1st time participant and brought classical antiquities, a roman marle head, wonderful greek pottery and tanagra figurines, west Mexican ceramics, textiles and wonderful tribal art from the congo as well as oceanic weaponds. In the article which reviewed the showm we had a piece...
A Grand Past Comes to Surface Ornate Moche Tombs Unearthed in Peru
By Guy Gugliotta - Washington Post Staff Writer - 02/15/2001
They dominated the coast of Peru for 700 years, long before the Inca existed. They tamed the great rivers of the Andes and used them to irrigate crops of corn, peppers, squash and beans. They killed their captured enemies and drank their blood.And when their leaders died, the Moche of northern Peru buried them in tombs filled with beautifully...
The Tablet and the Pen: Islamic Works from Turkey, Iran, and India
2006-02-18 until 2006-07-23 - 02/18/2006
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum Cambridge, MA, USAGeneral Inquiries: 617-495-9400Twenty-eight drawings primarily from the 15th through 18th centuries will be featured in The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, on display at Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum...
Review of the San Francisco Tribal Art Show February 2007
by Howard Nowes - 02/22/2007
Last week I returned from the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts show, produced by Caskey-Lees. Caskey-Lees also produces the NY Tribal Art show at the Park Avenue Armory in May. The west coast weather was warm and the show was top notch. It is probably the premier Tribal art show in the country and the catalog makes a nice reference guide....
