The Met’s Grand New (Old) Spaces

The newly reopened Greek and Roman galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are playing to rave reviews both in and out of the city. “In the reinstallation, the museum also sought to present the collection in an arrangement that would evoke the way the pieces would have been used in everyday life, rather than displaying numerous examples of the same type of object.” Of course, displaying antiquities so prominently inevitably rekindles the debate over provenance and rightful place…