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2009, The Journal of Art Crime
2010 •
The use of the term “provenance” when applied to archaeological material has been related to previous ownership. The collecting histories of over 120 items returned to Italy from North American collections have demonstrated the need for the careful and rigorous documentation of individual pieces. Such a history would chart the “life” of the object from the moment that it is discovered to the point when it is sold at auction or acquired by a museum or private individual. The impact of the scandal surrounding the “Medici Conspiracy” has led to the withdrawal of lots from a London sale in 2008, and a series of seizures from a New York auction house in 2009. The lack of collecting histories for individual objects suggests that the pieces were removed from their archaeological contexts, such as graves, by unscientific methods. The study argues that the widely used term “provenance” is essentially obsolete when applied to antiquities.
Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (ed. J. Oakley) pp. 11-21
Under the Tuscan Soil: Reuniting Attic Vases with an Etruscan Tomb2014 •
The Aterian is perhaps the major manifestation of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) in North Africa and is frequently framed in terms of the first human dispersals into the north of Africa. The possibility of an Aterian presence in the Arabian Peninsula is widely cited and is of particular interest, given the significant ongoing debate on the character of the dispersal(s) of Homo sapiens out of Africa. This paper presents a reanalysis of this data. Strong covariance was found between the tanged tools of the Banī KhaΓmah assemblage of south-western Saudi Arabia and the Aterian of north-east Africa. Comparison with other technologically similar assemblages from the Saudi Arabian south-west, however, shows that this apparent similarity results from technological convergence rather than demographic connections with Aterian populations. This convergence is likely to date to the Holocene.
#mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation,
Marie Meixnerová (Edited by), #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation, Link Editions, Brescia + PAF, Olomouc, 2019.2019 •
What is Net art? Does its name refer to the medium it uses? Is it the art of the Netizens, the inhabitants of the internet? Is it an art movement or an art form? This book aims to provide a starting point in the search for answers to these and similar questions concerning the existence of Internet art. Edited by Marie Meixnerová, a Czech curator and scholar, #mm Net Art—Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation approaches Internet art as a developing art form, through five thematic sections that map the “chronological” stages of this development. Featured authors include Katarína Rusnáková, Dieter Daniels, Marie Meixnerová, Domenico Quaranta, Natalie Bookchin, Alexei Shulgin, Piotr Czerski, Brad Troemel, Artie Vierkant, Ben Vickers, Jennifer Chan, Gene McHugh, Gunther Reisinger, Matěj Strnad, Lumír Nykl. For those who know little about it, this anthology can serve as an introduction to this specific area of Twentieth and Twenty-first century art; to the expert reader, it offers new and as yet unpublished information, and hopefully a new perspective on the phenomenon of Internet art. According to Domenico Quaranta: “#mm net art is an anthology edited and filtered from a very specific node in the network. This is exactly what makes it so precious: in a networked world in which all information seems to be available in the same form, at the same speed and on the same screens, your point of access is what actually shapes your point of view; and looking through another’s point of view is what allows you to think outside your own box, pardon, bubble.”
A technological study and experimental reconstruction of a rare type of gold-and-bone artefact from Mycenae Grave Circle A, which is often identified as "button" and presents affinities with bone or antler ornaments from Central Europe. The paper illustrates all stages of the manufacturing process, from the cutting of the bone to the final polishing of gold. In J. Driessen (ed.) 2017. RA-PI-NE-U. Studies on the Mycenaean World offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday (Louvain-la-Neuve), 245-262.
Recent investigations at Ka'Kabish have revealed that the site had a dynamic Middle Formative period occupation. Based on the recovered cultural materials it is clear that the inhabitants at Ka'Kabish were active participants in long-distance trade networks that saw the importation of a variety of exotic and high-status items into the settlement. The use of these goods, and others, suggests that the site was engaging in elaborate ritual activities including possible feasting events at this early point in time. Focusing on the on-going excavations into the Group D plaza, we will detail these recent discoveries and attempt to locate them into the broader socio-political landscape of Northern Belize during this dynamic developing time period.
David W J Gill