“Unknown Provenance.” 2-words repeated over and over by CYA professor, alumna (’95), and trustee, Zoë Kontes, while showing her students around the Museum of Cycladic Art here in Athens. Zoë Kontes teaches a new summer course called Illegal Antiquities, which looks at the acts of looting antiquities, the international art trade, forgeries, museum management, and conservation of heritage in regards to Greek art and archaeology.
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