Two articles this weekend about the Parthenon marbles. The Guardian reports a video making a case for the return of the marbles sent to 1000 members of Parliament in the UK. The New York Times yesterday ran an article about the guilt instilled by a new museum on the slopes of the Acropolis in Athens,…
cultural politics
archaeology needs bold science
A seminar with Bjørnar Olsen and and Chris Witmore at Stanford Archaeology Center. Our title Innocence regained? Is there a new consensus in archaeology? An alternative case for bold thinking. I wrote Social Theory in Archaeology and Reconstructing Archaeology back in the 1980s partly because I was so disenchanted with archaeological thinking – we wanted…
Postmodern irony and retro culture?
Inner city regeneration? Or what? Barn Again @ The Biscuit Factory Cultural heritage gone mad I have held back on this one a while – not wanting to hammer the NE of England too much. But here goes anyway. An ART warehouse, brand new interior, in an old food factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK. Urban regeneration…
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