bronzecannons
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Its a SAD day in HELL if you ask me! This wreck was slowly being LOOTED and it would have all be GONE.. forever! Smithsonian - you're a bunch of total wankers!
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Shipwreck Show Postponed
June 28, 2011 / http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/shipwreck-show-postponed/
The Smithsonian Institution has indefinitely postponed its plans to mount an exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck because of opposition from archeologists who say the objects were collected by a commercial treasure hunter in a manner that violated professional standards.
The exhibition, “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds,” was tentatively scheduled for next spring at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums.
A museum spokeswoman, Deborah Galyan, said that the earliest the museum might mount a “Shipwrecked” exhibit now would be 2013, a delay that she said would give the museums’ director, Julian Raby, who also curated the exhibition, time to address some of the archeologists’ concerns.
The exhibition was conceived by the government of Singapore, which bought the artifacts for $32 million from the company that salvaged them from a wreck off the coast of Indonesia. It is currently on view at the ArtScience museum at the Marina Bay Sands resort and casino in Singapore.
The salvage company has said it mined the artifacts quickly to avoid looting.
TW
Shipwreck Show Postponed
June 28, 2011 / http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/shipwreck-show-postponed/
The Smithsonian Institution has indefinitely postponed its plans to mount an exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck because of opposition from archeologists who say the objects were collected by a commercial treasure hunter in a manner that violated professional standards.
The exhibition, “Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds,” was tentatively scheduled for next spring at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums.
A museum spokeswoman, Deborah Galyan, said that the earliest the museum might mount a “Shipwrecked” exhibit now would be 2013, a delay that she said would give the museums’ director, Julian Raby, who also curated the exhibition, time to address some of the archeologists’ concerns.
The exhibition was conceived by the government of Singapore, which bought the artifacts for $32 million from the company that salvaged them from a wreck off the coast of Indonesia. It is currently on view at the ArtScience museum at the Marina Bay Sands resort and casino in Singapore.
The salvage company has said it mined the artifacts quickly to avoid looting.
