A review I wrote of “Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum” has been published in the latest issue of Near Eastern Archaeology (vol. 71 #4, cover dated December 2008). It’s too late to see the show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the review is not online, but it was…
Another post, this one about the amazing Tara Donovan, a sculptor who has her first one woman show at the ICA Boston.
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!
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.
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…
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.
I wrote an article for the Technology Teacher which should be out about now, although they don’t have online access. The article was about Design Squad, an excellent PBS show aimed at the 9 yrs old and above crowd and is reality show where teams compete by building things. Yes, it teaches engineering and science…
A comment I made to the blog Altercation was published on Friday. I realize it sounds like it could be sarcastic or cynical, but I’m really curious about what the mission in Afghanistan will be.
I’m excerpting below the introduction that Marian Feldman and I wrote for Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter. I’d meant to do this earlier to help Googlers find articles that are in the book, but it makes sense to do it now, too, because we will be having…
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter edited by Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman, published by Brill, 2007. More details as we get closer to the actual physical book.
Jack Cheng, PhD 