Is Italy Flogging The Getty For Political Reasons?

It may be time for someone in authority to call out Italian politicians for their obvious grandstanding and reject what some call the “harassment” of Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum, says Christopher Knight. “[The] escalating anti-Getty posturing is old-fashioned political demagoguery, pitched to voters back home… The emptiness of Italy’s legal and ethical claims for the Getty Bronze are beside the point.”