Alias Watch: Damn, He’s/I’m in trouble again
— There are other Mike Padgetts in the world. Today I learned that one of them has had some bad news.”
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Ever Googled yourself? I do it regularly. It’s not that I’m vain, I just like to stay informed.
Here are a couple of examples. Just over two years ago, a gentleman called William Mike Padgett failed in his bid to become US Senator for Tennessee. Then at the beginning of this year, a fatal motoring accident occurred on the rather grand sounding Mike Padgett Highway in Augusta, GA.
So today I’ve just learned that another of my namesakes has had some bad news.
This time it’s an unfortunate fellow by the name of J Michael Padgett. This namesake is currently the Curator of Ancient Art at the Princeton Art Museum, though if recent allegations turn out to be true, he might not be for much longer.
The June 2nd edition of the New York Times reports that Italian authorities are investigating Padgett for his part in the alleged “‘illegal export and laundering’ of Italian archaeological objects.”
A similar case initiated over five years ago and involving a curator of the J Paul Getty Museum is still ongoing.
See also:
Kunsthistorisches Museum
An impressive art and archaeological collection and one of the world’s finest, housed in a vast, palatial building in Vienna.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
The Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen is one of the better reasons to visit Rotterdam.
- Originally published: 11 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Louvre
Queues and queue jumpers. Crowds and crowded spaces. There are great art galleries and there’s the Louvre.
- Originally published: 6 Oct 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Something appeals to me about the Thyssen-Bornemisza and it’s not just the fine collection of paintings.
- Originally published: 13 Oct 2010 in Museums & Galleries
Pergamonmuseum
When all the world was brought to Berlin.
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
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