Prehistoric art
Exclusive event at the Museum of Cycladic Art in New York with VIP guests, collectors, and the Empeirikos & Niarchos families
It is an event held every two years to raise money for the museum’s causes. This year there was an extra reason as businessman and art lover Leonard Stern donated 162 Cycladic pieces from his personal collection to the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Greek state.
Cycladic Late Night | Athens | June 27
The Museum of Cycladic Art (4 Neofitou Douka) is organizing a Cycladic Late Night on June 27 from 7 p.m. to midnight. Visitors will have the chance to visit the exhibition "Cindy Sherman at Cycladic: Early Works" outside regular museum hours while enjoying live music performances. Tickets cost 7 euros at cycladic.gr.
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The Cyclades in New York City
As the museumgoer goes up the steps from 5th Avenue, he goes through the building's entrance, turns left and faces the Stern Collection, which includes 161 Cycladic antiquities, open to the public as of Thursday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). It appears impressive, and its title, "Cycladic Art: The Leonard N.
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Naxos to host ‘three new museums inside another’
A bowl full of lentils is the first thing that catches my eye among the tools and ancient ostracons on the worktable of antiquities conservator Marina Moustaka.
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Neanderthal engravings found in French cave
The oldest known cave engravings in France, and possibly Europe, have been discovered in the Loire Valley, with researchers uncovering designs dating back at least 57,000 years to the age of Neanderthals.
According to the findings, reported on June 21 the American journal PLOS One, the engravings, also called finger-flutings, predate the arrival of Homo sapiens to Western Europe.
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Art Contest for Kids | Athens | To May 30
The Museum of Cycladic Art (cycladic.gr) is holding its 10th annual art competition for children aged 4-15, with the theme this year being "The Human at the Forefront." The deadline for submissions of pieces addressing the role of humans through their journey across cultures, different eras, space and time, is May 30, with the entries then being presented in a big show by the museum in Septembe
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Exciting discovery in Latmos
New paintings believed to be from the prehistoric era have come to light during the ongoing studies on Mount Latmos (Beşparmak), home to significant rock paintings from ancient times.
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Archaeological gem hidden inside little-known cave
Prehistoric cave paintings are extremely rare south-east of the Alps, but in 2009 a scientist stumbled upon mysterious red and black lines and dots inside a little-known cave in the south-west of the country in the first such discovery in Slovenia.
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The “Alien” Petroglyphs of Chile’s Valle del Encanto
Peculiar pre-Hispanic petroglyphs & ancient astronaut theories
Tourists trample all over protected, prehistoric Peruvian hill carving
Tourists have left footprints all over Peru's Paracas Candelabra, an enormous hillside carving that dates from some 2,500 years ago, according to officials who have launched a search for the culprits.