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...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...
...funerary wreath from the 4th century B.C., and a 6th century B.C. marble statue of a young woman. 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 Sts. Paul and 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...
...Fogg’s Quincy home will close its doors completely during the renovations, which will be led by the internationally-renowned architect Renzo Piano, who designed the Pompidou Center in Paris. Highlights from the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger collections will be on display at the Sackler Museum during the renovations, which have been in the works for years. “In reality, what we’re doing is a teeny part of a very substantial project, which is the renovation of the Fogg,” Daly Genik’s cofounder, Kevin Daly, said yesterday...
When the Fogg is closed for renovations, Cooper stresses that the Sackler will display modern and contemporary art alongside other selections from Harvard’s permanent collection...
...displacing it from the historical community might not help.”According to Luann Abrahams, the Assistant Director for Administration at HUAM, one of the museum’s many goals has been to preserve its presence in the Yard, while conducting the renovations. The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which houses ancient, Islamic, and Indian art, will not be renovated and will instead feature a “best-of” collection culled from the archives of the three museums. “We’ve got to make [the art] accessible to everyone [in the interim...