Curios

Human Rights Art

• Have a look at the web archive of Richard Minsky's [http://minsky.com/meiselshow.htm Bill of Rights exhibition] at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, 141 Prince Street, New York City. The exhibition ran from April 27 - June 1, 2002. It's an interesting lateral approach relating 'book art' to the various articles of the American Bill of Rights (as near as I can tell). -- MarkElliott - 06 Mar 2006

The first charter of human rights circa 500 BCE

• The charter of Cyrus the Great, a baked-clay Aryan language (Old Persian) cuneiform cylinder, was discovered in 1878 in excavation of the site of Babylon. In it, Cyrus the Great described his human treatment of the inhabitants of Babylonia after its conquest by the Iranians (c.539 BCE). The document has been hailed as the first charter of human rights, and in 1971 the United Nations was published translation of it in all the official U.N. languages... www.iranchamber.com