Acropolis Now: Successful Frieze Launch

No, I’m not talking about a fleeting London contemporary art fair.
I’m talking about the 2,500-year-old frieze on the flying trapeze, swinging with the greatest of ease from the Acropolis to the New Acropolis Museum, 400 meters below. And, as Reuters reports, Western civilization is watching this death-defying act with bated breath. The delicate task of transporting the monumental Parthenon Marbles, via three cranes, began yesterday.
For details of this unprecedented maneuver, described in a press conference last Thursday by Greek Culture Minister Michalis Liapis and Dimitris Pandermalis, president of the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, go here.
But for much more fun, take a look at this BBC video, filmed on moving day and showing the marbles in motion.