tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post9162982000884539781..comments2024-03-20T18:15:41.858+00:00Comments on Looting Matters: Eakin: "Museums themselves are partly to blame"David Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13164794689385933318noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-9407874443392244582014-05-31T13:42:14.959+01:002014-05-31T13:42:14.959+01:00Thank you for this very informative post. Every ar...Thank you for this very informative post. Every art enthusiasts and <a href="'www.artguru.me" rel="nofollow">museum</a> visitors show know about these facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8972497915033440413.post-51309118297226551092013-01-28T20:22:18.633+00:002013-01-28T20:22:18.633+00:00The Eakin piece is a confirmation that there are s...The Eakin piece is a confirmation that there are still many highly educated and uneducated persons in Western countries who do not understand or accept that taking or holding the property, including cultural property, of another, is wrong. That there is not only a legal but also a moral obligation to return stolen or looted artefacts appears complicated for some.<br /><br />I used to think that the New York Times was a paper of the US American elite. Is that how their minds work? I would have thought that we should all now praise the American museums, like the Getty, the Met, Dallas Museum and others that have seen the light and are now willing to examine their past acquisitions and where necessary, return wrongfully acquired artefacts to the owners. Eakin seems to think the museums have returned too many objects and have been weak in resisting foreign pressures.<br /><br />Does Eakin not read regularly the New York Times and other American papers and blogs? He would have been aware that the US Museums have not simply returned artefacts on request but have resisted for years. He would also have realized that there are thousands of objects in US museums that are still subject to dispute. What leadership does Eakin and his paper hope to provide?DR.KWAME OPOKUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10807521316037049823noreply@blogger.com