RECENT ARTICLE ON IVORY SALES

Antique Ivory Sales Banned in California, Consignments Seized

By David Hewitt.  Maine Antique Digest, February-March 2012

For a direct link to the article, please go to: 
http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=3069

NEW BOOK ON INDONESIAN GOLD JEWELRY

Gold Jewelry of the Indonesian Archipelago
Features more than 700 unpublished masterpieces from the tribal, ethnic, and courtly gold body adornments traditions of Indonesia's outer island - Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas and Southeast Maluku.  The pieces date from the 4th to the 20th century, and many are completely unknown, extremely rare, and of high quality.
By Anne Richter and Bruce W. Carpenter with Achim Sibeth and David A Henkel.

For orders:
Pre-order at Amazon.com.  For trade and wholesale orders, please contact the National Book Network: custserv@nbnbooks.com.

EXHIBITION OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART AT LACMA

Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico
April 1 to July 1, 2012
Resnick Pavilion
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org

"Children of the Plumed Serpent is the first large-scale exploration of ancient kingdoms of southern Mexico and their patron deity, Quetzalcoatl, the human incarnation of the Plumed Serpent.  Through codices, gold, ceramics, and textiles this exhibition traces the extensive trade networks that facilitated the spread of the International Style and pictographic writing system.  These communities successfully resisted both Aztec and later Spanish subjugation, thriving in an era of international entrepreneurship.  Featuring more than two hundred objects..."

Catalog available through LACMA's Store: www.lacmashop.org or call: (323) 857-6146

RECENT ARTICLE IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES:

Human Ancestors Used Fire Earlier, Study Says
Charred bones in a South African cave suggest that Homo erectus was utilizing fire a million years ago, and may even have been cooking, researchers say...
By Amina Khan.  Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2012                                                                     
For the direct link, please go to: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fire-20120403,0,5516323.story

RECENT ARTICLES IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

Art Makes A Statement For Business Too
The artwork that organizations choose for their buildings, or for their grounds, is as important as the art that people select for their homes...
By Jean Efron.  New York Times, Sunday, April 1, 2012


For the direct link, please go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/jobs/art-as-an-extension-of-the-corporate-image.html?scp=1&sq=Jean%20Efron&st=cse




Officials Are Set To Seize Antiquity
Federal agents in New York on Wednesday moved to seize a thousand-year-old Cambodian statue from Sotheby’s, alleging in a civil complaint that Sotheby’s had put the 10th-century figure of a mythological warrior up for auction despite knowing that it had been stolen from a temple...
By Ralph Blumenthal.  New York Times, Thursday, April 4th, 2012


For the direct link, please go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/arts/design/ancient-cambodian-statue-is-seized-from-sothebys.html?_r=1&emc=eta1