The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...
The Parthenon marbles housed in the British Museum continue to occupy the foreground of an ongoing debate about art repatriation. After reports of a series of "secret" meetings regarding the ...
The Georgia Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine Schwab,” helps explain the damaged relief sculptures of the Parthenon, the temple often ...
Twenty-five years ago, in the preface to the 1997 edition of his book The Parthenon Marbles, Christopher Hitchens observed that “those who support the status quo at the British Museum have the great ...
As would be expected, the opening of the New Acropolis Museum has re-ignited the debate about the return of the Parthenon’s so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. At the opening on June 21 of the museum ...
Senior Greek officials have rejected the British Museum’s loan offer for the Parthenon Marbles, following a recent report that the two sides had entered “constructive” talks on the matter. In a news ...