Dear ARLIS/NA,
Should the ARLIS/NA letter (when drafted) be submitted
to the New York Times as an Op-Ed piece? Or should
the organization buy space to secure publication?
How responsive do you think the White house will be?
What are the goals in drafting and delivering this
letter?
Just curious and horrified,
Stephanie Sueppel
art librarian at large
--- Andras Riedlmayer <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Today's Boston Globe had a good editorial on the
> subject of the looting
> and destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq
>
> "Crimes against history"
>
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/105/editorials/Crimes_against_history+.shtml
>
> and also an informative article on archaeologists'
> plans to rescue what
> can be saved
>
> "Treasure hunt: For antiquities experts, the chase
> is on to recover the
> relics looted from Iraq's National Museum"
>
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/105/living/Treasure_hunt+.shtml
>
________________________________________________________________________
> For info, photos & updates on Iraqi art and
> archaeology and the 2003 war,
> see
> http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html
> and
> http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/iraq.html
> and
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0126/index.html
>
________________________________________________________________________
> IMAGES:
>
> The Iraq Museum was closed for several years after
> the 1991 Gulf war,
> but it was restored with German aid and the
> reinstalled galleries,
> with the museum's chief treasures on display, were
> reopened to the public
> just two years ago, in April 2000.
>
> For a virtual tour of the restored galleries, with
> photos of the --
> now-missing or destroyed -- star displays, see the
> Univ. of Innsbruck's
> Iraq Museum Web site
> http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c616/museum/museum.html
> Click on
> Erdgeschoss (lower level)
>
> http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c616/museum/lower.html
> and on
> 1. Stockwerk (upper level)
>
> http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c6/c616/museum/upper.html
> (click on the names of the galleries for
> thumbnail photos,
> then click on the thumbnails to see larger
> versions of the images)
>
________________________________________________________________________
> A widely available English-language guide to the
> lost collections is:
>
> Basmachi, Faraj.
> Treasures of the Iraq Museum
> Baghdad, Iraq: Ministry of Information, Directorate
> General of
> Antiquities, 1975-1976.
> 426 p. : ill., map, plans ; 29 cm.
> Bibliography: p. 413-422.
>
________________________________________________________________________
> Those interested in questions of law and
> responsibility in the pillage
> of the Iraq Museum may be interested in the
> following message, forwarded
> from the International Council of Museums Discussion
> List (ICOM-L)
> http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html
> The author is Patrick Boylan, professor of heritage
> policy and management
> at the City University, London and an expert on
> cultural property issues.
> http://www.city.ac.uk/artspolicy/resource/boylan.htm
>
> Note what Prof. Boylan says about the difference in
> the actions of U.S.
> troops -- and of looters -- on the east and west
> side of the Tigris River
> in Baghdad. The facts he cites cast doubt on the
> official line that
> there was nothing the U.S. military could have done
> to prevent the
> destruction and looting.
>
> Days later, the military is still busy making up
> excuses - made all
> the more incredible by the (otherwise creditworthy)
> fact that they had
> consulted archaeologists and monuments experts on
> the eve of the war,
> who'd warned them specifically of the danger of
> looting (with the example
> of what happened after the end of the war in 1991,
> when 7 of Iraq's 12
> regional museums were looted in civil disorders) and
> who'd put the Iraq
> Museum of Antiquities in Baghdad on top of 150 key
> sites that needed
> to be protected. From an AP wire service report
> (Tues. April 15, 2003):
>
> Much anger at the destruction has been directed
> at U.S. troops
> who stood by and watched it happen. On
> Tuesday, U.S. officials
> acknowledged they were surprised by the rampage
> and said troops
> were too occupied by combat to intervene when
> they first arrived
> in Baghdad.
>
> "I don't think anyone anticipated that the
> riches of Iraq would be
> looted by the people of Iraq," said U.S. Brig.
> Gen. Vincent Brooks
> at a U.S. Central Command briefing Tuesday in
> Qatar.
>
> That's bending the truth, to put it charitably, but
> I'm glad to see
> that the general feels sufficiently guilty about
> what happened to want
> to cover up -- his command clearly failed to
> anticipate or prevent what
> UNESCO has termed "a cultural disaster" in Baghdad,
> but they had the
> information in hand. They just failed to act on it.
>
> Andras Riedlmayer
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
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