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Saturday, September 10, 2016

September 9, 2016 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator Ð Saturday, September 10, 2016 September, Hamilton, Festival, Christie, Conservation, area, Supercrawl, Locke Street, rest, weekend, antiques

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator 

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Lots to see and do in Hamilton this weekend.

 

Posted in: Hamilton Tagged: antiques, area, Christie, conservation, festival, Hamilton, Locke Street, rest, September, supercrawl, weekend

Thursday April 17, 2003

April 17, 2003 by Graeme MacKay

April 17, 2003 ‘The fall of Baghdad came with widespread looting of museums and palaces. Video footage showed jubilant men, women and children dragging furniture out of ransacked government buildings. Many artifacts and treasures were stolen out of museum display cases and safes. No doubt a lot of the items have found new homes for display and decoration in private collections.’ - Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday April 17, 2003

The Looting of a National Heritage

Graeme’s Gallery 2003

The world has seen it before: looters ransack museums in the aftermath of war, and priceless plunder vanishes into a shadowy and highly profitable global network of antiquity traffickers and their customers. 

The halls and display rooms of Iraq’s ravaged museums and libraries are still littered by the ruins left by rampaging looters. But curators, law enforcement and others are already scrambling to assess the damage, document what’s missing and try to recover the pilfered. 

Key to the effort, experts say, will be to collect photographs and descriptions of what’s lost and spread the word so customs agents, museums and collectors can identify stolen pieces. 

”When a very important painting of Manet or Van Gogh is taken from a museum, it is very diff

icult to put it on sale on the market because these objects are very well known,” said Mounir Bouchenaki, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for culture. 

Details on the state of Iraq’s museums were still sketchy Wednesday, and Bouchenaki and others were hesitant to speculate on what had been lost or whether the looting had been highly organized. (Sydney Morning Herald) 

 

Posted in: International Tagged: antiques, International, Iraq, Paige Davis, redecorating, renovation, Saddam Hussein, Television, TLC, Trading Spaces

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