On , hear from Professor of Art and Chair of Museum Studies Elizabeth Marlowe as she shares her insights into the world of stolen antiquities and her work to assist the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in the seizure of a famous bronze sculpture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Museums and private collectors around the world have come under fire for displaying objects with questionable histories, and some have even been subject to police raids and confiscations. Marlowe specializes in ancient art, late antiquity, the city of Rome, Roman imperial monuments, museum studies, critical museum theory, decolonizing museums, the art market, cultural property, antiquities looting, and repatriation.
Her research and teaching examine the relationship between artistic forms and ideological content in art of the ancient world. The author of Shaky Ground: Context, Connoisseurship and the History of Roman Art, she is regularly quoted by national media outlets, and her expertise has appeared in the pages of the New York Times, Smithsonian magazine, Hyperallergic, and more.
In 2019, Marlowe hosted a one-day workshop at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy at Princeton University focused on the responsibility of university museums. “University museums may offer a way out of the current stalemate that has pitted archaeologists against collectors for more than three decades,” stated Marlowe.
Marlowe earned bachelor’s degrees from Smith College and Cambridge University, and her master’s and PhD from Columbia University.
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