Teacher, Bard Graduate Center in New York; Archeologist
An archeologist and a former curator in the Met’s Dept. of Ancient Near Eastern Art, she now teaches at the Bard Graduate Center in New York.
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Elizabeth Simpson
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FROM Elizabeth Simpson
Which Way, L.A.?
Feds Raid LACMA After 5 Year Investigation Michael Govan is Director of LACMA, the LA County Museum of Art. But he couldn’t get through the door this morning without the permission of federal agents. LACMA, along with Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum , the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and the Mingei Museum in San Diego had been raided as part of a 5-year investigation into looting, smuggling and fraud.
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