Tuesday, June 20, 2006
True Liberation?
In my piece Hot Pots and Potshots, published in the April 2006 "Front Page" section of Art in America magazine, I noted that "a senior Getty official, requesting anonymity, hoped these negotiations [between Italian cultural officials and the Getty, over repatriation of antiquities] would have a 'positive impact' on [former antiquities curator Marion] True's legal woes, in addition to resolving the ownership status of disputed objects."
Today's NY Times seems to indicate that True, on trial for trafficking in looted objects, might just get a break:
A collective sigh of relief may soon be heard from curators across the land.
Today's NY Times seems to indicate that True, on trial for trafficking in looted objects, might just get a break:
On Monday [Italian Culture Minister Francesco] Rutelli seemed to suggest that prosecutors would be willing to take cooperation by the Getty into account in pressing [or not pressing?] their case against Ms. True.
A collective sigh of relief may soon be heard from curators across the land.
