Tag: ειδήσεις

Black Panther film sparks debate about African art restitution

The British Museum says it welcomes discussion raised by the film as it explores how to handle African objects in its own collection. Black Panther, the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is taking the box office by storm, raking in more than $700 million in ticket sales in just its first 12 days;…
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9th May 2018
Sanitation Worker Built Collection of 40,000 Objects Found in Trash

When he was around nine or ten years old, Nelson Molina watched his mother fix the family’s toaster. She heated a butter knife on the stove until it was red hot and used it to rewire the broken appliance. “We couldn’t buy another toaster,” Molina told Artsy, matter of factly. So, his mother fixed it.…
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25th April 2018
Van Gogh Alive in Athens

Van Gogh Alive – The Experience will stretch the definition of the word ‘exhibition’ as it stimulates the senses and opens the mind. And there’s no need to worry about the kids getting bored – the exhibition caters perfectly to both young and old. Traditions of tiptoeing through unnervingly silent galleries and viewing paintings from…
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15th November 2017
Darwin’s long-lost beetle specimen found in museum dusty drawers

Millions of animals unknown to science languish in the world’s natural history collections. Just open a forgotten cupboard and you could find a new species. A COUPLE of years ago, Stylianos Chatzimanolis received a box of insects in the post. The package came from London’s Natural History Museum: Chatzimanolis was updating the classification of an…
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28th October 2017