Antiquities, Antiquities

Item 1: The Greeks drop charges against former Getty curator Marion True (below).

And now for an interview:
LACAYO: Should the Met have gone about things differently when it made acquisitions in the past?
DE MONTEBELLO: I don't know, should Enrico Dandolo not have taken the horses of San Marco [from Constantinople] in 1204?
- Part 1 and Part 2

I'm not sure what to make of this, but it appeared in my e-mail in box, so I pass on. The Clark Art Institute's publicity folks relay that today, in Rome, "leaders of American and Italian museums and cultural organizations to discuss ways to foster improved cooperation between the two countries that would lead to enhanced intellectual and cultural exchange."

The meeting was co-organized by the American Academy in Rome and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute of Williamstown, Massachusetts.

I e-mailed to ask which American museum types were there.

Maxwell L. Anderson, Director and CEO, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Don Bacigalupi, Director, Toledo Museum of Art
James Ballinger, Director, Phoenix Art Museum, (Immediate Past President,
Association of Art Museum Directors)

Michael Brand, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum

Michael Conforti, Director, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
(President-elect, Association of Art Museum Directors)

Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Director, American Academy in Rome

Prof. Thomas McGinn
Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies
American Academy in Rome

Anne-Imelda Radice, Director, Institute of Museum and Library Services
(U.S. Government Cultural Funding Agency)

Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President, American Academy in Rome

James N. Wood, President and CEO, The Getty Trust