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...Pollock Matters,” on display at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art though Dec. 9, is a romance as much as it is a mystery.Bringing to light the story of a friendship between four artists, paired into two married couples—Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, and Herbert and Mercedes Matter—the show illustrates the intersection of their lives through letters, paintings, and photographs, a wide-ranging collection of relics that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.Of course, it’s the show’s overarching whodunit?...
...national television Thursday night with the first four pieces the Getty has already returned, including a prized 5th century B.C. vase attributed to the Greek painter Euphronios. In an interview this week with TIME, Rutelli said the deal with the Getty - which follows smaller-scale agreements with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts - marks a watershed in the international effort to force otherwise upstanding cultural institutions to turn over works with a nefarious past. "We're proud... of the ethical value of this 'cultural diplomacy,'" he said, clearly toning down...
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has swaggered into the genteel world of antiquities like a new sheriff in town. And for many of the world's top museums, which have long trotted out treasures with dubious origins, his message is simple: this cocktail party is over. Just ask the highbrow crowd at the J. Paul Getty museum, which was finally forced to sign a deal with Rutelli last week to return 40 artifacts that were illegally taken from Italian soil. "This is a fresh start for Getty," Rutelli told TIME. "They are aware that an era is over...
...stolen masterpiece, you don't know its history. You don't know where it comes from, if it's from Sicily or Apulia or Magna Grecia," he said. "They are doomed to be anonymous." With that in mind, Rutelli also plays good cop in the negotiations. "To the museum that returns stolen works, we loan for several years works that are equally important and valuable. Therefore, those spaces don't go empty," he said. Indeed, the most precious piece that the Getty has agreed to return - a 5th century B.C. statue of a goddess thought to be Aphrodite - will stay...
...were not resolved by last week's agreement: the status of the disputed Victorious Youth bronze statue, and criminal proceedings in Italy against Marion True, former curator of the Getty, though a civil suit against True was dropped. The Getty's current Director Michael Brand, who came to the museum in 2005, after it emerged that many items in the collection of the Getty Villa were probably looted from Italian sites, said top museums must help set new tougher standards, though with limits in how far back a country can contest patrimony. He wants to see 1970 as a cutoff...