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Museum to Return Easter Island Moai 'Head'
Phys.org / February 21st, 2022
A 1,500-pound giant sculptural head taken from Easter Island by the Chilean navy in 1870 will be returned. Chile's National Museum of Natural History said Monday it will return the stone statue, dubbed Moai Tau, to the Rapa Nui people. "For the Rapa Nui, their ancestors, funerary objects and ...
'Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific' Brings the Archipelago to LACMA This Winter
ArtfixDaily / November 20th, 2019
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will present Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific (Dec. 15, 2019 to July 19, 2020), the first substantial project on the art of Fiji to be mounted in the U.S. The exhibition features over 280 artworks drawn from major international collections, ...
Easter Islanders Ask British Museum for Return of Moai Statue
Guardian / October 24th, 2018
From the Guardian: Easter Island’s indigenous people have asked Chile’s government to help them recover a unique Moai statue removed 150 years ago and now kept in the British Museum in London. The seven-foot-tall (2.4-metre) Hoa Hakananai’a sculpture was removed from the island by Richard ...
Brazil's Oldest Museum Consumed by Fire
The Guardian / September 3rd, 2018
A massive fire ripped through Brazil's oldest museum on Sunday night, possibly destroying some 20 million artifacts. The 200-year-old Museu Nacional (National Museum) housed natural history collections including fossils and indigenous artifacts found in Brazil as well as antiquities from Egypt ...
Texan Tourists Make Archeological Discovery in Hawaii
newser / August 10th, 2016
A pair of vacationers from Texas discovered previously-unknown petroglyphs thought to be at least 400 years old on a Hawaiian island beach. Lonnie Watson and Mark Louviere made the archeological find on Oahu. They located 10 unusually large (5-foot) images carved in sandstone across 60 ...
Neanderthal 'Artwork' Discovered in Gibraltar Cave
BBC / September 2nd, 2014
Engravings found inside a Gibraltar cave are the artistic expressions of Neanderthals, say scientists of a new discovery.
Detroit Hit With a $4 Billion Proposal for City's Art
New York Times / August 27th, 2014
New York-based Art Capital has offered Detroit a loan of up to $4 billion in a new proposal that leaves the city's museum intact with its art used as collateral.