Modernism/Modernity, Volume 11, 2004 – Archaeologies of the Modern – a special issue of the journal has just appeared. All about archaeology in the modern world. Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Tiews and I edited the volume – we are quite proud of the result.
the academy
Athens Olympics – archaeology and ideology
Of course, many archaeologists and classicists cannot resist this years Athens Olympics – pressed into service, celebration and self promotion. The New York Times ran an article on March 9 under the title When the games began: Olympic archaeology. Richard Martin put me onto it. The International Herald Tribune ran the same yesterday as Olympics:…
the (new) archaeological intellectual
K. Kris Hirst runs the archaeology guide at about.com. As well as the usual stuff, she also has a series of curiously eclectic quotes on archaeological themes. The one posted yesterday, Quote 25, was Keith Bassett on the new intellectual, from an article in Environment and Planning 1996. A sound, if familiar, comment on the…
archaeology-performance
Alessandra (Lopez Y Royo) and I have teamed up to make her web site on archaeology and performance more available, and to develop it. It went public this week at archaeology-performance.net. All sorts on performance, performativity, documentation, archaeological materialites.
art market dirty dealings
It was the way the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York described its plans for 57,000 square feet of extended gallery space that caught my eye: “We have a sacred obligation to put this material on view,” said museum director Philippe de Montebello [BBC link] He is talking about 5000 Graeco-Roman artifacts, currently in…
new guide to the discipline
Just out – Blackwell’s Companion to Archaeology. An academic guide. I did the chapter on politics and archaeology. The argument is the one I first made back in the 1980s, when it was deeply unfashionable, that archaeology is a contemporary project, and archaeologists don’t discover the past, they work on what is left. Here is…
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