Geoff Edgers ("
One of the world’s most respected curators vanished from the art world. Now she wants to tell her story", Washington Post August 20, 2016) reports on Marion True's notes for a memoir.
... today, for the first time, she is talking openly about the way she and her museum-world colleagues operated. Yes, she did recommend the Getty acquire works she knew had to have been looted. That statement, though, comes with a qualifier:
If she found out where a work had been dug up from, she pushed for its return. In contrast, many of her colleagues did little, if anything, to research a work’s source. None of them were put on trial.
She described her position on recently surfaced material:
“The art is on the market,” True said, describing the Getty’s collecting approach. “We don’t know where it comes from. And until we know where it comes from, it’s better off in a museum collection. And when we know where it comes from, we will give it back.”
I have commented on Marion True's position on a new ethical position
before and raised issues about some of the material that was acquired during her curatorship.
1 comment:
Marion True should definitely tell her side of the story. After all, she became the principal persona in this whole matter. She was acting within a system and a structure and did not act alone. She would be doing a great service by giving us her views.
Kwame Opoku.
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