Word: collectionitis
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ART AND THE IVY In March 2006, Yale’s art collection fell under scrutiny. The Peruvian government sued Yale for the rights to archaeological materials excavated from the Incan ruin Machu Picchu nearly a century ago by explorer and Yale professor Hiram Bingham. In September 2007, the two...
But the agreement remains unsigned, in part because many Peruvians aren’t content with the current terms. Late last month, Eliane Karp-Toledo, the former first lady of Peru, wrote a scathing op-ed in The New York Times claiming that despite its request to keep part of...
Still, Ebbinghaus says, "the way collecting worked in Europe and the U.S. in the earlier part of the 20th century, there may have been documentation, but nobody ever paid much attention to it." A small statuette that shows up at an auction and lacks documentation may have been in a...
"I think in any case, it is good for museums to keep their own collection, because it means that things may be done with the objects that [they] might not be able to do with loans," Ebbinghaus says. "For instance, we have a conservation lab, and we can do technical...
Furthermore, as part of Harvard, HUAM has a specific educational mission. As a result, Ebbinghaus says, HUAM wants to "continue collecting because we believe in having this collection here available for teaching purposes."