The year 2020 saw the passing of two enormous forces in the arts and antiquities exchange – Paolo Giorgio Ferri, and Douglas Latchford. What can the general public learn from such opposing legacies? In 2008, Paolo Giorgio Ferri brought the Euphronios krater home to Italy – thus ending the country’s thirty-year dispute with New York’sContinueContinue reading “Conflict of interests: Paolo Giorgio Ferri vs. Douglas Latchford”
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Notre-Dame: Making a case for replication
British architect Karl Singporewala writes his take for Architects’ Journal: “Replicating Notre-Dame’s spire is wrong.” We all watched in horror when Notre-Dame burned last spring. We saw the bright blaze tear through her center and force panicked plumes of smoke every direction – they’re tragic images one can scarcely forget in a lifetime. The embersContinueContinue reading “Notre-Dame: Making a case for replication”
Present Preservation 