{"id":580664,"date":"2019-02-17T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=61121943683f29f71c9e687d78df9b0c"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T18:31:55","slug":"art-institute-of-chicago-unveils-key-findings-in-african-art-thanks-to-medical-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=580664","title":{"rendered":"Art Institute of Chicago unveils key findings in African art thanks to medical technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 16, the Art Institute of Chicago announced the results of significant new research on five terracotta sculptures\u2014so named Bankoni after a village in present-day Mali where they were found. The objects date from between the 12th and 15th centuries. This places them &#8220;among the oldest surviving sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa and among the oldest works of African art in the Art Institute&#8217;s collection beyond Egypt,&#8221; according to Constantine Petridis, Chair of the Arts of the Americas and Africa and Curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 16, the Art Institute of Chicago announced the results of significant new research on five terracotta sculptures&mdash;so named Bankoni after a village in present-day Mali where they were found. The objects date from between the 12th and 15th centuries. This places them &#8220;among the oldest surviving sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa and among the oldest works of African art in the Art Institute&#8217;s collection beyond Egypt,&#8221; according to Constantine Petridis, Chair of the Arts of the Americas and Africa and Curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580665,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580664\/revisions\/580665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}