Over in the collecting blogosphere there are a series of attacks on AIA for taking leadership within its own ranks over the sale of antiquities to private collectors. Collectors and dealers are likening them to the Nazis and ISIL. Yet Ryan Baumann makes an interesting point here about what happens to some antiquities which end up owned by those more inclined to exploit them than care for them: “They can choose to smash it”: AIA St. Louis & the New Sappho.
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