Saturday,
October 21, 2006
Getty "Stalling"
The
ANNOTICO Report
While the Getty's
former curator Marion True has been on trial in
@#%&!* The usual stall and delay tactics of someone
unwilling to do the Right Thing.
Both
the
Sunday
Telegraph .
Article
from: Agence France-Presse
From
correspondents in
October
21, 2006
ITALIAN
Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has said
negotiations with the J
"As long as
there is a way (to negotiate) we'll follow it ... but the room to manoeuvre is narrowing," the minister said yesterday
on the sidelines of a ceremony to sign an agreement
with the Swiss on the the movement of cultural artefacts.
"As long as
a possibility remains I will not go as far as breaking it off, but I will not
accept an unacceptable accord," Mr Rutelli said.
Negotiations with
the
The minister did
not specify how many works of art
Former curator
Marion True has been standing trial in
"At the
moment, what Getty is proposing falls far below our standards, in terms of the
quality of the pieces and their quantity," an official in the Culture
Ministry said.
The
The institution
said it did not knowingly buy looted artefacts but
knew that 82 pieces in its gallery were of questionable origin.
Several years
ago,
At the end of
September, the
In February 2006,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) in
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