Comments for Dig Dug http://digdug1.wordpress.com Excavating art and culture, and sometimes creating a material response. Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:33:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by Lady Philosopher http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-53 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:33:49 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-53 Reblogged this on Lady Philospher's Blog and commented:
my pal too! oh i love Shimada-san!

]]> Comment on The Anthropology of Dr. Zahi Hawass (Lecture at War Memorial Opera House, 3/8/10) by [Spiritualités & Traditions] Zahi Hawass, les secrets du Sphinx et les révolutions arabes… | Club de l'Europe http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-anthropology-of-dr-zahi-hawass-lecture-at-war-memorial-opera-house-3810/#comment-52 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:04:59 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=1321#comment-52 [...] puissant symbole : l’homme était réputé incarner l’Egyptien vivant le plus connu au monde après l’acteur Omar Sharif. Pas un documentaire consacré à la terre des pharaons ne s’est [...]

]]> Comment on The Anthropology of Dr. Zahi Hawass (Lecture at War Memorial Opera House, 3/8/10) by Zahi Hawass, les secrets du Sphinx et les révolutions arabes… | Club de l'Europe http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-anthropology-of-dr-zahi-hawass-lecture-at-war-memorial-opera-house-3810/#comment-51 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:24:40 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=1321#comment-51 [...] puissant symbole : l’homme était réputé incarner l’Egyptien vivant le plus connu au monde après l’acteur Omar Sharif. Pas un documentaire consacré à la terre des pharaons ne s’est [...]

]]> Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by asiansart http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-46 Mon, 24 May 2010 06:24:47 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-46 Nine months later, the Los Angeles Times reports on how mention of this spoof still sends the Asian Art Museum’s director “simmering.”

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-xu-20100523,0,573660.story

Unfortunately, as reported in the article, the museum’s cultural practices show little improvement, despite not only the widespread acknowledgment byscholars and museum professionals around the country of the need for institutional change, but also the wealth of public embarrassment they’re still simmering over nearly a year later.

How much more will it take for them to wake up?

The samurai spoofers respond on their blog:
http://www.asiansart.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on The Anthropology of Dr. Zahi Hawass (Lecture at War Memorial Opera House, 3/8/10) by digdug http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-anthropology-of-dr-zahi-hawass-lecture-at-war-memorial-opera-house-3810/#comment-39 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:35:32 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=1321#comment-39 The industry around the monuments/archaeology must be tremendous, no thanks to the West. I’m sure it’s worth navigating all the hoo ha.

]]> Comment on The Anthropology of Dr. Zahi Hawass (Lecture at War Memorial Opera House, 3/8/10) by John Marcher http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-anthropology-of-dr-zahi-hawass-lecture-at-war-memorial-opera-house-3810/#comment-38 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:29:17 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=1321#comment-38 I think this post captures the ambivalence that is modern Egypt- there’s a lot of great, amazing things to see and learn, but you have to go through an unpleasant modern-day culture of vultures to experience it.

]]> Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by digdug http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-33 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:34:09 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-33 Thanks for posting news of the lecture. And kudos to the academy.

]]> Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by asiansart http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-31 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:06:08 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-31 Now officially sanctioned by the academy:

Public Lecture at UC Berkeley’s Institute of East Asian Studies

“Lord It’s the Samurai: Socially Engaged Art and the Cultural Production of Orientalist Hysteria”
by Majime Sugiru, Communications Director, Asians Art Museum

Sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies
March 9, 4-6pm

More information at the IEAS website:
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2010.03.09.html

]]> Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by Beyondasiaphilia0's Blog http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-30 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:30:52 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-30 [...] digdug’s post [...]

]]> Comment on “Lord It’s the Samurai” by beyondasiaphilia http://digdug1.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/samurai/#comment-29 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:29:13 +0000 http://digdug1.wordpress.com/?p=693#comment-29 [...] digdug’s post [...]

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