The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In h

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it

The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotio

This book reviews the competing claims that works of art belong either to a particular people and place, or to humankind.

A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, sev