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PEACE ON THE HUAM-FRONT? Former HUAM director James Cuno is leading the charge to reconsider the conciliatory poses that other museums have been striking. To Cuno, the current president of the Art Institute of Chicago, placing too much faith in long-term loans can be counterproductive. "The only problem with this is whether or not such loans will be made," he writes in an e-mail. "To date, ‘source countries’ have been disinclined to make such loans...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Cuno claims repatriation poses a threat to the diverse cultural offerings that "encyclopedic" museums put on display. U.S. museums have the mission of "collecting representative examples of the world’s artistic legacy" for "the study [of] individual traditions within the context of other traditions," he said when testifying to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

Additionally, Cuno maintains that the countries seeking to reclaim artifacts do not always have the best interests of the objects in mind. He contends that several young governments, such as those in Greece and Turkey, see both antiquities and export laws as ways to forge a national cultural identity...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...necessarily have sole claims on the pieces merely because they came from within the physical boundaries of their nation. "It is a stretch of the imagination to link modern Egypt to ancient Egypt, modern Greece to ancient Greece, modern Rome to ancient Rome, communist China to ancient China," Cuno told The Boston Globe...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman and Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Illegal Exhibits | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...when they came out of the ground. Some museum directors argue they should be able to take in the most important of these. To do otherwise would mean the object disappears into private hands, where it's denied to the public and to specialists for study. Cuno suggests the establishment of an outside advisory panel that could rule on whether an object is so significant that a museum could acquire it even if its papers are not in order, so long as there is no evidence that it was dug up during the period covered by the source nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Owns History? | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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