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Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost.
Both our old friend Peter Turnley and his twin brother David Turnley, photojournalists par excellence (you can search for the "60 Minutes" segment on the two of them, among of my favorite videos about photographers), are having holiday print sales....
British archaeologist Howard Carter often gets the credit for discovering the tomb of King Tutankhamun. But many Egyptians helped, and one youngster may have even originally discovered the tomb.
Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art.
In the 1970s, long after its encyclopaedic collection had been acknowledged as among the world’s finest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognised it had slender holdings in South or Southeast Asian art. One in-house estimate suggested that no more than 60 objects were worth exhibiting.