Getty's James Cuno defends museums' right to keep ancient art

Should Museums Get To Keep Ancient Artworks?
Statue took inside the Getty Museum, which focuses mainly on art from ancient Greece and Rome, among others. Los Angeles, June 2010
Statue took inside the Getty Museum, which focuses mainly on art from ancient Greece and Rome, among others. Los Angeles, June 2010

James Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is back in the fray over whether antiquities and other prized artifacts from Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cradles of Western civilization should remain in museum collections in America, Great Britain and other major collector nations or be sent back to the countries where they were created hundreds or thousands of years ago.

The latest salvo from the L.A. museum leader is an article he wrote for the November-December issue of Foreign Affairs magazine titled “Culture War: The Case Against Repatriating Museum Artifacts.”

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