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MICHAEL WOOD ON...
Dec 28, 2021
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ILLUSTRATION BY FEMKE DE JONG
“The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity”
ust before the first lockdown, I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum with a Greek friend. Though I had never been happy about them being in London, it was a visceral shock to see them through Greek eyes. The Parthenon Sculptures (let’s call them as they should be named) seemed diminished in the austere Duveen Gallery on a cold
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