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Weekend To Do List: Oktoberfest kickoff, Greek festival and a kinetic sculpture race in Massachusetts

This weekend in Massachusetts features the start of Oktoberfest, a festival dedicated to Greek culture and a special kinetic sculpture race in Lowell. Oktoberfest officially kicks off this weekend in ...
Artnet

A Headless Ancient Sculpture Just Turned Up in the Trash in Greece

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...
The New York Times

That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She?

Two German archaeologists use science to recreate the lost colors of antiquity. Historians debate just how authentic their version of the past really is. Groundbreaking or garish? Reconstruction of a ...
Yale Daily News

Yale’s “forgotten” sculpture — “The Greek Slave”

On Tuesday, University of Alabama’s Dr. Catherine Roach visited Yale to talk about her interdisciplinary and contemporary work on “The Greek Slave” statue by Hiram Powers. The event, “On Yale’s ‘Greek ...
Artnet

MSCHF Recasts an Ancient Greek Sculpture With Mickey Mouse

Art collective MSCHF has just revealed a rodent-themed artwork that’s been long in the making—three years, to be specific, or decades, if we’re going by copyright terms. Walt Disney and His Sons is ...
NPR

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right? Nope ...