January 8, 2009
Pillagers are being called to account
Another review of Sharon Waxman’s new book – this time in the Australian Press.
From:
The Australian
Pillagers called to account
Rosemary Sorensen
January 08, 2009AFTER Michael Brand took on the directorship of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California and inherited the ugly mess of its acquisitions history, he suggested that being an Australian was an advantage.
“I went in (to negotiate with the Italian government the return of looted artworks the Getty owned) with no background in antiquities, no history at the Getty, a neutral person,” Brand told author and journalist Sharon Waxman last year. “It might even have helped that I was Australian — who knows?” Waxman, in her recently published book Loot, concurs, calling Brand a “blank slate”.
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