July 3, 2008
Was MacGregor ever really offered the Met Job?
Lee Rosenbaum offers some thoughts on whether the idea that Neil MacGregor was offered the job of director of the Met was all down to distortion of the issue by headline writers.
Read her piece here.
At the same time Norman Lebrecht uses this news as another chance to extol the virtues of MacGregor & the British Museum in a tone that seems almost too adulatory to be believable. If only the residents of all the countries hoping for artefacts to be returned were as excited by this news.
Read his piece on the news here.
- MacGregor will be staying at British Museum for another four years : July 2, 2008
- The future for the British Museum : July 14, 2006
- Is the British Museum really willing to rent the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece? : November 15, 2011
- British Museum insists that “repatriation is yesterday’s question” : April 13, 2006
- Could the Elgin Marbles be returned to Greece? : April 21, 2007
- Neil MacGregor talks about the Elgin Marbles & Cyrus Cylinder : February 11, 2010
- British Museum director to become Cultural Envoy : December 30, 2007
- British Museum director Neil MacGregor insists artefacts must not be returned : March 22, 2012