Public Humanist
Another post, this one about the amazing Tara Donovan, a sculptor who has her first one woman show at the ICA Boston.
World History Matters
My latest publication is as a contributor to World History Matters: A Student Guide to World History Online, a nicely illustrated and well organized guide to scholarly internet sites. Yes, you can cite these in your papers!
Public Humanist
I have two new posts up at The Public Humanist. The first is on the traveling British Museum exhibition of Assyrian art, Art and Empire. The second is on the announcement of the Iraq Heritage Project. Please comment on both or either. I’m very curious to know what others think about these topics.
Book Review: Babylon’s Ark
Babylon’s Ark by Lawrence Anthony is a memoir of a conservationist’s trip to Baghdad soon after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to save the animals at the Baghdad Zoo. After reading a number of books on the topic, mostly on the archaeological looting, but also the excellent Imperial Life in the Emerald City, as…
Movie Money Charts
For fans of Edward Tufte or other graphic designers (if you can name one, you are a fan): Movie box office charts. Well designed.
Review of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context
Aren Maeir has published a review of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context in the Review of Biblical Literature. As is often the case in reviewing essay collections, much of the article summarizes the contents of the book but Maeir is generally positive. This is the final paragraph: All told, the varied, provocative, and generally…
Catching up with AmEx
Looking at my blog, I noticed there were a few things I did last year or earlier this year that I did not mention or link to. Two of them are websites for American Experience films: Oswald’s Ghost and Whitman. Oswald’s Ghost is about the impact of the Kennedy assassination on the nation’s psyche, the…
Letter editing
Further adventures in my life as a letter writing crank: This is from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, May 25, 2008, in response to a short piece by Charles Pierce. I’m not sure what Rosie Crocker’s problem with it was, but I thought it was a good bit of historical reflection. In fact, this is…
Hollis
Because I’m a dork, I looked up our book in Hollis, Harvard’s online library catalog, and was pleased to find that the University bought three copies! One for the Divinity School library, one for Widener (the main, big general library) and one for the Fine Arts library. In case you’re wondering, only the Div School…
Boston Globe piece
Five years ago this week, I had a small piece about the looting of the Baghdad Museum published in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe.
Jack Cheng, PhD 