Archive for December, 2008

Upcoming Anthro Club Event!

The Anthropology Club is hosting their annual end-of-semester get together for club members and faculty. This year, the culinary theme is Moroccan!

Meet at Eben Holden at 6:30 pm Wednesday, December 9, 2008.

Contact club presidents Madeline Meade or Victoria Harding for more details!

“How Did That Vase Wind Up in the Metropolitan?”

“The imminent arrival of Thomas Campbell as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is much more than a simple changing of the guard after the long tenure of his predecessor, Philippe de Montebello. Mr. Campbell, who will take over one month from today, is a 46-year-old curator from the Met’s department of European sculpture and decorative arts, and he has a unique opportunity to shift the tone of an enduring and increasingly hostile debate in the world of art and museums: Who should own the treasures of antiquity?”

From today’s opinion section in the New York Times, a challenging question. Continue reading here.