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news & updates delivers the latest
information about SAFE, features ways to help
stem
the looting and illicit trade of antiquities, and
highlights developments in the larger world of
cultural heritage preservation.
In this issue, learn about SAFE's guiding
principles,
read about a great art exhibit, and learn
what our
members are up to. Click here to forward this newsletter.
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SAFE Member spotlight
This month, the spotlight shines on SAFE
Members Paula
Lazrus and Marina
Papa-Sokal and Sarah Pickman.
Paula and Marina contributed
essays to
Archaeology,
Cultural Heritage, And the Antiquities Trade
(Cultural Heritage Studies) , a comprehensive anthology
featuring top
international experts on the commodification of
artifacts, the
burgeoning illicit antiquities trade, and
international
efforts to combat looting. SAFE Advisor Neil
Brodie co-edited the collection.
Sarah Pickman, an undergraduate at
the University of Chicago, contributed to SAFE's
Say
YES to Italy campaign as an intern in
2005. This past fall, her article
on the destruction of a Medieval Armenian
cemetery in Djulfa, Azerbaijan on the
Archaeology website led to an
invitation from
documentary filmmaker Simon Maghakyan to
write the script for The New Tears
of Araxes. Now on view at YouTube, the
film has received rave reviews. Thank you,
Sarah, for rejoining SAFE as a Member.
Bravo,
everybody. What are you working on?
Tell us about it...
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SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone, Inc. creates
educational programs and media campaigns to raise
public awareness about the importance of preserving
cultural heritage world-wide. SAFE is a coalition of
professionals in communications, media, and
advertising working alongside experts in the
academic, legal and law enforcement
communities. SAFE is a nonprofit 501(c)(3)
organization and
has no political affiliations.
We wish to thank the Museum Security Network
Mailinglist and
other sources for their work.
SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone ©2007 All
Rights Reserved.
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Artist Michael Rakowitz's The invisible
enemy should not exist explores the
fate of the artifacts still missing after the
2003 looting of the Iraq Museum. Using
information from the University of Chicago?s
Oriental Institute and Interpol databases,
Rakowitz reconstructed the artifacts using
packaging from Middle Eastern foodstuffs and
local Arabic newspapers, creating an
intricate narrative installation.
