Word: pre-columbian
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Interest in primitive art has greatly increased the demand for Pre-Columbian works by European and American collectors in recent years...
With a panel from the American Society of International Law, Paul M. Bator, professor of Law, is presently devising methods to prevent the desecration of Pre-Columbian monuments through the illegal exportation of art pieces from Latin America...
According to members of the law panel, legitimate sales, loans, and international exhibitions of Pre-Columbian art would decrease the foreign demand and discourage the prosperous illegal trade. In April the law panel will present its findings to a UNESCO conference on the situation of the international art market...
...game, of course, has rules. This year's rage is backyard rocket building, but only fools mention the rockets that blew up, assuming they ever got built. Another gaffe is to boast of having organized a local chapter of the International Flat Earth Society. Stanford rejected one such pre-Columbian after having second thoughts about his intellect. On the other hand, the Stanford authorities suggested the right tone to take when they beamed at a budding scholar who claimed that he had collected and counted 50,000 ants...
...quality, however, was so sharp that even his "second bests" were good enough to ensure him a blue-chip roster of clients, including some of the top U.S. museums. In the process, he built up his own private collections-not only from his native subcontinent, but also of pre-Columbian and Persian art. When a choice selection from Heeramaneck's Indian collection toured four U.S. museums two years ago, curators eyed them avidly and wondered which lucky museum would acquire...