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...then there was the dirt. In the late 19th century, when curators were presumably less anal than they are today, dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare...
Harvard's collection of Tun-huang wall paintings and sculptures in the Sackler Museum should also be considered an important case in the repatriation debate. The pieces were taken from Buddhist cave temples in northern China by Harvard archeologist Langdon Warner in a 1920 expedition. The ancient caves, now preserved by the Chinese government, are marred by gaping holes in the walls where the wall paintings and sculptures used...
Many similar cases exist at Harvard museums and at museums around the world. Certainly the categorical return of every work of art to its country of origin is absurd. But some art objects, such as the sacred material of the Omaha, the Elgin marbles and the cave paintings of Tun-huang, are integral to their original culture...
...artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have begun to overturn the standard textbook reading of visual art as an orderly march of styles from cave paintings to postmodernism...
...pharmacy, which he was awarded in 1966. By then, U.S. participation in the war in Vietnam was escalating and Kerrey enlisted. "I was pretty gung-ho," he says now. In March 1969 he led his SEAL team on a night raid against an enemy unit holed up in a cave. Struck by a grenade, he suffered a wound that required amputation of his right leg just below the knee. Ironically, he was the only U.S. casualty during the raid. Kerrey has difficulty plumbing his own feelings about having been crippled at age 26. In 1986 he appeared before...