
Sadiq Khan encourages deal to share Elgin Marbles
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has encouraged the UK and Greece to "come to an accommodation" to share the Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has encouraged the UK and Greece to "come to an accommodation" to share the Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles.
Michael Rakowitz, the Iraqi American artist, has offered a large-scale work of his if the the British Museum agrees to return an artefact to Iraq.
Liz Truss has rejected a suggestion made by former Tory Chancellor and British Museum chairman George Osborne that there is a “deal to be done” with Greece over sharing the Elgin Marbles.
The V&A is likely to return its collection of Asante gold regalia to Ghana, which was first seized during a British raid on Kumasi, in 1874.
The Victoria and Albert Museum has returned the marble head of Eros to the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, reuniting it with a 3rd century sarcophagus.