We lost Prof. Malcolm Bell yesterday. He taught me much about the Ancient Greek city, the importance of cultural repatriation, and ways to be a gentiluomo. May he be enjoying the eternal Sicilian sunset.

Dimitris Pandermalis, visionary humility, tenacity, passion | eKathimerini.com The streets and hills of Athens are ribbed with marble steps, ancient and modern, rising and dropping in the dawns and dusks of time.

A great tribute to Dimitris Pandermalis, one of the greats of Greek archaeology

Fragment of the face of the head of the bronze Robert E. Lee held over a red-hot furnace, with two foundry workers in protective gear holding the fragment with tongs. Lee's face appears to glow from the head of the furnace.

Well, folks, that's a wrap on the (in)famous Lee Statue of Charlottesville, Virginia! He was pulled down in 2021, and he was finally melted down through the efforts led by Swords Into Plowshares. The bronze will be reused in a new artwork in the future for the community. (Photo: Eze Amos)

Join us in Tallahassee or virtually over Zoom for this fall’s Langford Conference at FSU next week! 🤓

Zendaya Embodies One of the Louvre Museum's Most Iconic Ancient Statues for a New Makeup Collection ... The Louvre Museum and Lancôme have joined forces to release a skincare and makeup collection inspired by nine of the museum's most celebrated sculptures.

Finally, some museum news that is enjoyable

Today’s cartoon from the New Yorker…