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Twenty years after the government decided to build a new museum to house the sculptures, still no architect has been chosen
With over 200 objects on loan from the British Museum an exhibition which charts Agatha Christie’s travels in the Orient.
In 1994, the Greek government was willing to accept the restitution of only a small number of the Parthenon pediment sculptures in exchange for an end to the dispute
At a major conference held on 30 November and 1 December 1999, British Museum, Greek and international scholars discussed the nature of any damage to the Marbles in the hushed-up cleaning of the 1930s. Mary Beard puts the discussions in context and tells how, ever since their acquisition in 1816 by Lord Elgin, the Marbles have aroused fierce debate. Why?
The restitution question was hardly mentioned, but it tautened everyone’s nerves
After the sculptures' surfaces were damaged in the 1930s due to improper care, the museum has cleaned up its act
A Californian company prepares to sell etchings reprinted from the seventeenth-century plates
With £20 million each, plans progress for the British Museum Great Court and the V&A's spiral
Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum
Restitution claims for the Lubomirski and Ossolinski collections are complicated by the history of Lviv’s occupiers
St Clair demands greater candour in the fallout of Lord Elgin and the Marbles' third edition, in which it was asserted that over-cleaning had irreparably damaged the marbles
Greeks renew demands for return of sculptures following new allegations that they were irreparably damaged in the Thirties
The Kwer'ata Re'esu was kept in a bank vault in Portugal, where our correspondent examined it and took colour photographs in 1998
The find dates from around AD 650
Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow
A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over
Medical technology is being utilised to obtain clear images of watermarks
Have scruples over not asking collector/dealers for loans, particularly for underrepresented painted icons, affected the quality of the current exhibition?
As a touring exhibition, African Zion—The Sacred Art Of Ethiopia, opened in the United States in 1993, a scholar of Ethiopian history asked what had become of the country's most important painting of all
The 1992 Grosvenor House Antiques Fair had declared the jewel a made-up piece
An exhibition at the British Museum makes Brian Sewell question whether it should be buying twentieth-century material at all