New Acropolis Museum

If We Ask Nicely, Can We Have Our Marbles Back?

Eleni Gage | Posted 07.23.2009 | World


Eleni Gage

The Greeks have been tripping all over themselves trying to be uncharacteristically polite, lest anyone think them rude because the New Acropolis Museum is also a reproach to the British Museum.

Who Owns Art? Who Owns Democracy?

Karen Essex | Posted 07.20.2009 | World


Karen Essex

If the Parthenon marbles are returned to Greece from Britain, it should not be done on the basis of returning "colonial booty." These sculptures are a unique and special case.