Ancient/Medieval Notes

LI, an ancient/medieval edition of the festival, is up at Gillian Polack's Food History.

"Acropolis Museum to Open in Greece," Washington Post, 18 June, and"The New Acropolis Museum," NYT, 19 June, are slide shows of the new Acropolis Museum that opens this weekend in Athens. See also: Mary Beard,"The new Acropolis Museum -- a glimpse at the opening party (and of the opening speeches)," A Don's Life, 19 June; and Anthee Carassava,"In Athens, Museum Is an Olympian Feat," NYT, 19 June.

Toni Bentley,"Harem Envy," NYT, 19 June, reviews Richard Bernstein's The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters.

Roberta Smith,"Those Medieval Monks Could Draw," NYT, 18 June, reviews"Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages," an exhibit at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Karen Rosenberg,"Gemlike Paintings, Set Free From Words," NYT, 18 June, reviews"Pages of Gold," an exhibit at New York's Morgan Library & Museum.

Holland Cotter,"A Saint, Demons, and a Leap of the Imagination," NYT, 18 June, reviews"Michelangelo's First Painting," an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.