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Venus of Willendorf still hot at ripe old age of 25,000
- 2008-08-19
VIENNA AFP — Plump and 25,000 years old, this lady remains a mystery even after 100 years in the limelight. The Venus of Willendorf, a small ochre-coloured figurine from the Paleolithic period, takes her name from the village in northern Austria where she was excavated on August 7, 1908...
Dior museum celebrates dandies
- 2008-05-03
GRANVILLE, France AFP — Legendary dandy Oscar Wilde once declared "One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art," a sentiment endorsed by designer Christian Dior, who acknowledged dandyism as a significant influence on his fashion. The Dior family home, now a museum, on...
Rare Minoan treasures to be displayed in New York
- 2008-03-05
ATHENS AFP — Around 300 priceless artifacts from Europe's oldest civilisation, the Minoans of ancient Crete, will go on display in New York from March 13, the private Alexander S. Onassis foundation said Wednesday. Titled "From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 BC", the six-month exhibition will...
Two celebrated Goya paintings undergo restoration in Spain
- 2008-02-27
MADRID AFP — Spain's Prado museum is restoring two of Francisco de Goya's most celebrated paintings which were damaged during the country's 1936-39 civil war, a museum official said Wednesday. The aim is to have the paintings, which have been on display at the Madrid musuem, restored in time...
German museum discovers prized Monet is a fake
- 2008-02-14
BERLIN AFP — A German museum said on Thursday it had discovered that its prized Monet painting "The Seine at Port Villez" is a fake. A spokesman for the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Foundation Corboud in Cologne in western Germany said a research project carried out as part of an...
China may sue over German Terracotta Warrior scam
- 2007-12-13
BEIJING AFP — Chinese cultural authorities are threatening legal action over fake "Terracotta Warriors" that appeared at a German museum in a scam that fooled thousands of people, state press reported. "It is a serious act of fraud and has implications for intellectual property rights," said Chen Xianqi, a...
First ever exhibition of Bob Dylan's paintings to open in Germany
- 2007-10-26
LEIPZIG, Germany AFP — The first ever exhibition of paintings by folk and rock legend Bob Dylan will go on show in the German city of Chemnitz on Sunday. The director of the city's Kunstsammlungen museum said it took only two days to persuade Dylan, 66, to put the...
Expo in Ahmadinejad's Iran showcases avant-garde art
- 2007-10-13
TEHRAN AFP — A video installation by world-famous US artist Bill Viola. Contemporary Japanese art tackling AIDS. A print by an Iranian filmmaker whose most recent work was not shown in the Islamic republic. Perhaps not what you would expect to find in central Tehran, currently in the midst...
Kenya hominid's US trip sparks row
- 2007-09-25
NAIROBI AFP — Plans to send Turkana Boy -- a unique hominid skeleton -- and other prehistoric jewels from Kenyan museums for exhibition in the United States have sparked heated debate among Kenya's scientific community. The trip will bring in a much-needed windfall to Kenya's cash-strapped museums but the...
Rubens, the 'prince of painters', on display in Brussels
- 2007-09-14
BRUSSELS AFP — Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels opened Friday a major exhibition of almost 60 works by the 17th century Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. The exhibition, "Rubens, A Genius at Work," gathers masterpieces from the world's great museums -- the Louvre in Paris, the...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| David Guiraud | Vice President |
| Claude Perret | Director, HR |
| Denis Hiault | Director, Info |
| Jean-Pierre Vignolle | Director General |
| Jocelyne Bulke | Assistant Director |
| Michel Tourmen | Director, Finance |
| Yves de Saint Jacob | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications |
| Luke Hunt | |
| Michael Mainville | Correspondent |
| Dan Jung | Multimedia Editor |
| Peter Wutherich | Editor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Pierre Louette | Chairman & CEO |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Executive Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Info | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director General | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Assistant Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications | Current |
Luke Hunt has worked as a journalist for 20 years, primarily with Agence France-Presse, and is a routine contributor to World Politics Review. In addition to covering the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has extensive experience in Asia and the Middle East. He served as AFP bureau chief in Phnom Penh and Kabul. Currently based in Hong Kong, Hunt's work has appeared in many international newspapers and on international networks including CNN, the BBC and ABC in his native Australia. He has an academic background in military studies and economics.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Agence France-Presse | Correspondent | Current |
| Global Radio News Ltd. | Current | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Moscow-Based Freelance Correspondent | Former |
| The Gazette | Reporter | Former |
| The Prague Post | Reporter | Former |
Array
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Dan Jung | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Center for Journalists | Master | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Editor | Current |
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