I would like to make an apology to Hugh Eakin in the wake of his piece in the New York Times [my response]. It was inappropriate of me to suggest that he was writing to prepare the way for another organisation.
Eakin and I disagree on our response to the antiquities "scandal", but I hope that we can continue to debate the core issues.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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Towards a Corpus of Cycladic Figures
One of the ideas said to have come out of the Cycladic workshop at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is the creation of an online co...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien...
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Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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I wonder if Mr. Eakin will be ask kind and apologize to those working in source countries who he painted as extortionists.
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