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...timing of the "Eirene" loan corresponds with a broad set of investigations and lawsuits regarding looted art that has targeted some of America’s most renowned art institutions, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the MFA, and the university art museums at Yale and Princeton...
...March 2006, Yale’s art collection fell under scrutiny. The Peruvian government sued Yale for the rights to archaeological materials excavated from the Incan ruin Machu Picchu nearly a century ago by explorer and Yale professor Hiram Bingham. In September 2007, the two sides structured an agreement that stipulated that Yale would cede ownership of the artifacts and return many of them to Peru as early as 2009. Yale would, however, be legally permitted to retain certain pieces for 99 years as part of a research collection...
...part because many Peruvians aren’t content with the current terms. Late last month, Eliane Karp-Toledo, the former first lady of Peru, wrote a scathing op-ed in The New York Times claiming that despite its request to keep part of the collection for 99 years, Yale lacked "any historical claim to the artifacts...
...Cuno and Ebbinghaus, the future of antiquities lies in replacing the current minefield of export regulations with another system: partage, a process by which institutions that sponsor excavations receive a share of the finds. In the first half of the 20th century, the archeological museums of universities like Yale and Harvard and art museums like the MFA used partage to acquire their most important pieces. In the 1920s and 1930s, a team from Harvard excavated a site called Nuzi in modern Iraq, finding thousands of cuneiform tablets that detailed daily life. These remain on display in Harvard?...
...thing to an official decision with a proverbial wink, under the theory that an applicant who has more time to consider a college will be likelier to attend.Harvard isn’t the only school to follow this practice. Other Ivy League schools that send out similar letters include Yale, Princeton, and Brown.But does a “likely” signify a “definitely”? Fitzsimmons says that, as for all admits, it is still possible for a likely letter recipient to be rejected, but only in the same kinds of cases that would...