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...they're exasperated by demands to return objects that entered their collections many years before the adoption of laws that bar their export. "We've acknowledged that some claims are reasonable," says Michael Brand, director of the Getty Museum. "But if you start claiming everything, it becomes impossible." The Met's De Montebello likes to ask whether Italy will return the bronze horses of San Marco, which arrived in Venice as war booty from Constantinople in 1204. "And at what point is Turkey going to return the Alexander Sarcophagus to Lebanon?" he wonders. "In the 19th century, it was brought...
Museum professionals have counterarguments. Some places--think of the Met, the Louvre or the National Gallery in London--are "universal museums," worth cherishing precisely because they permanently display the works of many cultures side by side. Neil MacGregor is the director of the British Museum, founded in 1753 as the first and now one of the greatest of those. "The idea," he says, "of having in one building things from the whole world, there for free, is just as important now as it was 250 years...
...museums crawl out of the blast crater produced by the Rutelli campaign, it may be that the conversation on these possibilities will get seriously under way. In November, U.S. museum professionals met with their Italian counterparts in Rome to discuss ways to increase cooperation, for instance, by simplifying the process for loans from Italy. Meanwhile, the full-court press to enforce the laws continues. In January scores of federal agents raided four museums and an art gallery in Southern California in connection with an investigation into trafficking in Asian and Native American...
...recent days, McCain met with his advisers at his ranch, near Sedona, Ariz., to plot a strategy that will keep alive what the campaign sees as its magic: the face-to-face charm that reinvigorated the 71-year-old candidate after his campaign imploded last summer. It is a strategy calling for more bus tours and large group discussions with voters. It also calls for a concerted effort to court voters outside the Republican base--a Barack Obama-like gambit that is already seeping into McCain's public rhetoric...
...tonight’s game looking to move up in the Ivy League standings at the expense of the Tigers (5-17, 2-5 Ivy), who are experiencing their own five-game losing streak and have been winless so far on the road. The last time these two teams met, Princeton’s three-point shooting proved to be the difference. The Tigers went 12-of-29 from behind the arc, led by senior Kyle Koncz’s six long balls and sophomore Lincoln Gunn’s four...