The Chapman Family Collection at the Saatchi Gallery in London I love the ironies and humor– they look like old wooden ethnographic fetishes – until you see the MacDonalds logo.
archaeology
A way of thinking
East End of London. Looking for a house on Princelet Street. Alessandra Lopez Y Royo puts it all this way – archaeology is a way of thinking.
The perfume of garbage
Beginning work with Bill Rathje and David Platt on a paper for a special issue on archaeology and modernism for the journal Modernism/Modernity This is how we begin with the World Trade Center There is something profoundly archaeological about the experience of 9/11 and its aftermath. Less than a month after the attack a meeting…
Looting Baghdad Museum – why we should, or shouldn’t care
We want stories rather than things! Just got the July/August issue of Archaeology Odyssey. Cover – “Rape of an Iraqi museum”Photo – a turbaned head rolling on the floor amidst scattered papers and debris. A headline and image of crime and destruction. We have heard a lot about this in the media since April –…
Located Bodies
Antony Gormley at the Baltic Arts Center Wonderful stuff. Anthropometrics, collaborative work, community based, questioning representational forms. Allotment. Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo. All arranged in the gallery in social groups, and as a kind of miniature city scape. Domain Field. Whole body casts made of some 250 volunteers from the…
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