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Renovations to the room, which began May 29, include converting two roundtable consoles into tables, rearranging lounge chairs, and replacing original Aalto-designed chairs with new chairs from a different manufacturer. Pieces moved out of the room will be taken in by the Busch Reisinger Museum or sold through an auction house, according to library administrators...
...We’re in a difficult position. We are a library, not a museum,” Brainard said. “This room needs to be designed so students have a comfortable study space and access to the poetry and to the resources in the room,” she said...
...long Greek drama camecloser to its end last week when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a 2,400-year-old tombstone and a 6th century B.C. marble relief of women offering gifts to a goddess. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics--especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works...
...Greek government is negotiating with the Getty for two other artifacts. And it won't stop there. TIME has seen an internal Culture Ministry memo listing 10 more wanted works. They include a grave marker from 340 B.C., housed at Harvard's Sackler Museum; icons of St. Paul and St. Procopius allegedly stolen from a 14th century church in Greece and now at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington; and Byzantine frescoes of the prophet Elijah and St. Andrew, which, according to the memo, the Odigia Foundation Icon-Institute in the Hague says it bought from a London gallery...
...long Greek drama came closer to its end last week when the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed to return to Greece two ancient artifacts: a 2,400-year-old [an error occurred while processing this directive] tombstone, right, and a 6th century B.C. marble relief, above. For decades, Greece has noisily lobbied for the return of relics - especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking...