However much scrutiny other museums face over their acquisition of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles probably faces more. But newly appointed antiquities curator Karol Wight — a protegee of her predecessor, Marion True, who remains on trial in Rome on looting charges — “declared that despite the pressures, she did not intend to play a passive role in the international antiquities trade. ‘We do intend to be active in the market,’ she said. ‘This still is a growing collection.'”