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Another highly controversial candidate for sanction also managed to dodge a public bullet - for now. The prehistoric wall paintings of the Lascaux Caves in Southwestern France have been under threat for years from a series of fungus outbreaks that many feel were brought on or exacerbated by the French government's mismanagement of the site. The US-based International Committee for the Preservation of Lascaux (ICPL) argued before the Committee for sanctions, and its chair, Laurence Léauté-Beasley, says Lascaux "came very close" to being placed on the endangered list. Instead, the French government agreed...
...anyone can see who visits some of the sacred cave sites scattered across northwestern Australia, their traditions of rock painting--animals and fish of every kind, spirit figures and the imposing, fearsome effigies of the great Rainbow Serpent--are as impressive as anything in the caves of Lascaux or Altamira and tens of thousands of years older. As far as we know, the Australian Aborigines stood at the very dawn of human imagemaking...
...significant comics artist. That was McCay, who, just 100 years and a month before the Los Angeles museum show opened, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland in the New York Herald. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday-supplement Hieronymus Bosch - a glorious other-world of dreamscapes as phantasmagorical as they were funny...
Thank you for shining a worldwide light on the crisis in Lascaux, France [June 19]. Clearly, the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. An international group of experts in cave art and conservation should be allowed to monitor and report to the world on the cave and its health. Lascaux is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The cave's discovery in 1940 redefined what was known about human beings' creative development and ability to construct image from abstract thought. This critical leap and its resulting tangible evidence is invaluable to understanding global...
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LASCAUX...