Footnotes

• Modern technology has collided with Ancient Rome, with the addition of Pompeii to "Google Street View."
• Park West galleries sell nearly $450 million in art every year.
• Dartmouth Math professor has created a digital method for identifying suspect artworks.
• After a flood ruined the University of Iowa's Museum of Art, the "Envisioning Committee" is calling for a bigger museum to be built closer to campus.
• A Byzantine era mosaic was stolen from Old Town Aqraba in the northern West Bank.
• While Cambodia and Thailand lead the pack of Southeast Asian countries that experience the most severe looting dilemmas, Vietnam might now be in their league.
• With the record-breaking sale of Giacometti's Walking Man I, the art market has gone from recession-induced anorexia back to bilious over-indulgence.
• For the first time, a Swiss museum will show the Impressionist and post-Impressionist collection two years after a $160 million heist of the collection.
• Valuable Iraqi antiques were seized at the Dubai International airport.
• Taking photographs of pyramids in Egypt is becoming increasingly difficult, not to mention prohibited.
• The Indianapolis Museum of Art has created the IMA Lab, to address the needs specific to the museum community regarding the use of innovative digital technology.