Egypt
- Repatriation: More Re Rosetta
Daily Times, Pakistan Egypt will host a conference in April for countries demanding the return of their antiquities, stolen but on display in museums round the world, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said. The conference will “discuss the question...
- Art Museums Wrestle With Ownership Issue
http://tinyurl.com/hhqne (washingtonpost.com)Another in a long line of recent articles about the challenges facing museums wishing to aquire antiquities for their collections, and the efforts of governments to repatriate items which, in some cases, should...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Italian Antiquities Trial Update
http://tinyurl.com/b84oe (New York Times)The Italian case against the J. Paul Getty Museum has been proceeding, with tempers flaring: "The charged atmosphere reflects the high profile of the trial, which is being closely watched by museums around the...
Egypt
The Antiquities Mess
http://tinyurl.com/aztb3 (New York Times)
"The question now is whether the Met's tentative agreement with Italy will lend new energy to the claims of other countries seeking to repatriate antiquities. It probably will. The antiquities market has always been notoriously corrupt. Returning major art objects to their native countries, if the legal case is strong enough, will have an important symbolic effect. But it will do nothing, in itself, to bring a halt to what has amounted to ceaseless cultural ransacking over the centuries. Museums are the very public end of an often willful ethical ambiguity that appears at its worst among private collectors and dealers of antiquities. For that reason alone, museums are obliged to get this right. But they should do so on the actual facts, as the Metropolitan appears to have done."
See the full story at the above pag on the New York Times website for more.
- Repatriation: More Re Rosetta
Daily Times, Pakistan Egypt will host a conference in April for countries demanding the return of their antiquities, stolen but on display in museums round the world, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said. The conference will “discuss the question...
- Art Museums Wrestle With Ownership Issue
http://tinyurl.com/hhqne (washingtonpost.com)Another in a long line of recent articles about the challenges facing museums wishing to aquire antiquities for their collections, and the efforts of governments to repatriate items which, in some cases, should...
- Museums And Controversial Antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/jag7z (Business Week)A useful overview of the current state of play following the recent spate of claims by countries who believe that they have the right to demand the repatriation of antiquities currently held by foreign museums....
- Is It All Loot?
http://tinyurl.com/koomq (New York Times) After a whole spate of articles about antiquities and the role of museums in establishing provenance, things have died down a little, but here's an interview on the subject from the New York Times: "On March...
- Italian Antiquities Trial Update
http://tinyurl.com/b84oe (New York Times)The Italian case against the J. Paul Getty Museum has been proceeding, with tempers flaring: "The charged atmosphere reflects the high profile of the trial, which is being closely watched by museums around the...