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California Literary Review, on-line magazine at : www.calitreview.com
Book review: Michelangelo, A Tormented Life by Antonio Forcellino Jan. 28, 2010

Paul Bril’s Restored Paintings in the San Silvestro Chapel, Sancta Sancotorum, Rome, Nov. 30, 2009

Book review: The Glass Room by Simon Mawer, Oct. 1, 2009

Book review: Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame, Oct. 15, 2009

“Celebrating Galileo in Florence”, Mar. 22, 2009

“The Capitoline Museum: A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages”, Aug. 6, 2009

Book review: The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard, Mar 3, 2009

Book review: The Patron’s Payoff by Jonathan K. Nelson and Richard J. Zeckhause, Feb. 4, 2009

Book review: Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman, Jan. 29, 2009

Book review: Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in 18th Century England by Bruce Redford, Nov. 30, 2008

“Notes from Italy: Some Old Envoys,” Nov. 29, 2008 “Imag(in)ing America,” July 1, 2008

$25 Billion and Counting,” May 2008, by Eileen Kinsella, Rome reporting by Judith Harris

“Erotic Art of Ancient Pompeii,” Feb. 14, 2008

“Daniel Barenboim at La Scala in Milan,” Dec. 11, 2007

ARTnews, New York
“Vittorio Sgarbi: An ousider is back in,” a profile, May 2010

“Why It’s a Michelangelo,” May 2010 by editor-publisher Milton Esterow, Rome reporting by Judith Harris

“Canary Sings about Caravaggio,” Mar. 2010, by editor-publisehr Milton Esterow with reporting by Judith Harris

“Debating a Vatican Cover-Up,” on censoring Michelangelo’s St. Peter crucified, Jan. 2010

“The Real Thing: Is She or Isn’t She a Leonardo?”, Jan. 2010, by editor-publisher Milton Esterow, Rome reporting by Judith Harris

“Acropolis Now?” the Parthenon marble controversy, April 2009

“Debating a ‘Super Manager’s’ Powers,” Italy’s heritage management, Jan. 2009

“Over Budget or Overboard?” Religious censorship in Bolzano musum, Jan. 2009

Book review: Sharon Waxman’s Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, Nov. 2008

“The Church Gives Contemporary Art Its Blessing,”interview with Vatican cultural leader, Oct. 2008

“Italy Up in Arms Over a Breast,” Premier Berlusconi has paint-over, Oct. 2008

“Athens: Pressure for Frieze Heats Up,” Parthenon Marbles, Sept. 2008

“Fragment of a Scandal, Piecing together the 500-year journey of a controversial Vatican fesco,” Summer 2008

“The Court: Send Venus to Libya,” restitution from Rome, Summer 2007

“Looking for Leonardo, Atom by Atom, ” Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Apr. 2007

“Piecing the Parthenon together,” Mar. 2007

“A Masterpiece in the Walls,” fresco discovery in Rome’s Santi Coronati, Mar. 2007

“Italy and Getty come to a disagreement; Swiss-Italian deal targets art smugglers.” Jan. 2007

“Reclaiming Modigliani,” Summer 2006

“Looking for Leonardo, Atom by Atom,” ARTnews, April 2007
(Maurizio Seracini’s search for the Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio)

“A Masterpiece in the Walls,” ARTnews, March 2007
(Concealed in a Roman monastry for seven centuries, a newly discovered fresco cycle rewrites art history)

“L’Arte in Tribunale,” Internazionale, 2 febbraio 2007
(Is Marion True, former Getty curator, a scapegoat in the ongoing trial in Rome?... and a repentant-perhaps-tomb robber speaks)

“Coming to a Disagreement,” ARTnews, January 2007
(Italy’s talks with the Getty collapse, even as culture minister Francesco Rutelli requests other museums to return allegedly looted works of art)

“Going a Step Further,” ARTnews, December 2006
(Boston Museum of Fine Arts strikes unprecedented deal with the Getty Museum of Los Angeles)

“Reclaiming Modigliani,” ARTnews, September 2006, with Marc Spiegler
(Rome wins back from Paris Amedeo Modigliani’s archives, but legal battles haunt the “Modi” legacy)

“Saved from Vesuvius,” Odyssey, September/October 2005
(Rare wooden furniture from Herculaneum is under restoration, with photos by Giovanni Lattanzi)

“The Talks Begin,” ARTnews, May 2006, with Eileen Kinsella
(After the Metropolitan Museum’s agreement with Italy, other U.S. museums launch dialogues about disputed antiquities)

“Fine Dining in Pompeii,” Odyssey, January/February 2006
(Silver dinnerware hoard uncovered at Murecine, a quarter mile from Pompeii’s walls)

“Old as the Hills, the Rock-Cut Theater of Sutri, Italy,” Odyssey, November/December 2003
(Etruscan-built gladiatorial amphitheater, among the oldest extant, has a Roman-era gate)

“An Operatic Grand Dame, the San Carlo Theater in Naples,” Italy Italy, May 2002
(Where Goethe gossiped as Vesuvius rumbled)

“The Lap of Luxury,” Archaeology, May/June 2001
(Splendid seaside resort near Pompeii rediscovered by archaeologists, and reburied)

“Ancient Smut,” Odyssey, September/October 2000
(After two centuries the Naples Museum’s collection of erotica is on display—but pornography is in the eye of the beholder)

“Five-Star Inn with Great Art,” Archaeology, July/August 2000
(Frescoes are removed from the walls of a buried treasure trove hotel and spa near Pompeii)

“The Bronzes of Riace,” Italy Italy, #1, 1998
(Close-up of the bronze statues of ancient Greek athletes, retrieved from under the sea and now the centerpieces of the Reggio Calabria Museum.)

“Putting Paul on the Map,” Biblical Archaeology Review, January 2000
(Apostle’s Name found on inscription in a basilica in Cyprus)

“Butrint, Albania,” Odyssey, Spring 1998, with photos by Giovanni Lattanzi
(The city the poet Virgil called ‘Troy in miniature’)