Footnotes 2.22.2010

• Google Earth offers new perspectives on the past, with views of a Japanese-American internment facility.
  
• Sotheby's in New York will exhibit works from the 1999 Polaroid Abrams catalogue in mid-March.
• Should looted artefacts be returned to countries, like Nigeria, with inadequate security and other major issues? Read more on this issue discussed by Maurice Archibong.
• Brandeis University continues to make budget cuts, which does not bode well for its Rose Art Museum.
• The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has jewelry of questionable origin purchased over 40 years ago.