Andy Brouwer

History, Travel and Film in Phnom Penh & Cambodia.

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A rare post to send you to YouTube to watch episode 4 of the POPP-Cast with MC Luke and myself as we chat about all things Cambodia, especially the temples, sculpture and footy: https://t.co/q8jx226DTL

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@MuseumofLoot wood?????

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Sadly, after many years of posts and enjoying what others bring to the party, this platform no longer provides the important space it once did. This will be my last post for the foreseeable future. Take care.

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#Cambodia Prince Monirak Sisowath featured in two Roland Joffé films, The Killing Fields and The Mission in the mid 1980s. He was a fighter pilot and social worker, not an actor. He's pictured with Oscar winner Haing Ngor (in grey).

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Denver Art Museum has announced its returning 11 SEAsian artworks including this 12thC bronze Prajnaparamita, which was gifted to DAM by Emma Bunker. #Cambodia will received this bronze. #combatlooting #repatriate2Cambodia

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En route from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap #Cambodia and you might spot one of 10 x 800-year-old bridges built by the Khmer Empire, which have been saved for posterity. Pic taken from my bus seat.

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Ex-Diplomat Istvan Zelnik and his connections to #Cambodia's missing cultural heritage are examined by Politico at https://t.co/5xlT2nUJLT #combatlooting

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@blazerrose Getting the pieces from the family, and getting the shipping costs sorted, etc.

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#Cambodia is still awaiting the return of Khmer antiquities from the family of Douglas Latchford (pic), who died in 2020. He organised the looting and sale of 1,000s of Khmer artworks for 50 yrs+ and was never brought to justice. #combatlooting

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The 120-piece Khmer exhibits of the Angkor: The Lost Empire of #Cambodia Exhibition has opened at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, until June 2024. Don't miss it!

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This Khmer 12thC statue of the god Vishnu, with the tell-tale signs of looting from its temple in #Cambodia, failed to sell at Christie's New York in Sept 2012, and then disappeared. Any idea where it is today? #combatlooting

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With film actress, MMA fighter and police martial arts instructor, 'Little Frog', aka Tharoth Sam, a role model for young women in #Cambodia. At Meta House screening of The Last Reel tonight.

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A wooden door panel of 2 Dvarapala guardians, standing on pigs, at the 11thC temple of Phnom Chisor, #Cambodia, pic taken in 2008. The door is no longer at the temple - sad.

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@ka_bradley @ka_bradley - hi, can you get in touch, as I can't contact you! I'm the guy in the pic and I live in PPenh; would love to ask you a few Q's...cheers.

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Has anyone seen this gilded bronze Head of Buddha from the 12thC, Khmer Empire/#Cambodia on their travels? It used to be in the Bangkok home of Dynamite Doug Latchford more than a decade ago. Answers on a postcard please.

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@HistoryAge certainly a possibility.

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One of my personal Top 10 exhibits at the Angkor National Museum in Siem Reap #Cambodia - a gorgeous 11thC lintel from Prasat Prei Thnal North showing Shiva and Uma on Nandin as the central characters. #Angkor

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@Pan_Asia_PNH Two statues and both are from the late 6th and early 7th century.

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Online lecture – Revealing Two Krishnas: Restoration and Exhibition of a Pair of Masterworks from Phnom Da – on Nat Museum of #Cambodia's Facebook page at 2pm on Friday 12 January.

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I'll never forget the documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia on 30 Oct 1979, it changed my life forever. John Pilger left us yesterday, but his words will never be forgotten. Thank you for opening our eyes JP.