The U.S Versus The Musicologist?

A musicologist who worked in the US for ten years was suddenly barred from the country last year. “Her case has become a cause célèbre among musicologists and the subject of a protest campaign by the American Musicological Society and by academic leaders like Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College at Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., where Ghuman was to have participated last month in the Bard Music Festival, showcasing Elgar’s music.”

What’s Ailing The Guggenheim (And How To Fix It)

“Since Thomas Krens took over in 1988, the air around art at the Guggenheim has been distorted and toxic. Yet since he left his directorship in 2005 to run the Guggenheim Foundation, which oversees all five museums (New York, Venice, Berlin, Bilbao, Las Vegas), the institution has shown auspicious signs of actually putting his tenure behind it. But something rotten is brewing. Krens has been up to his corrosive old tricks again.”

Yale Agrees To Return Machu Picchu Artifacts

Yale University and Peru have signed a preliminary agreement “that would return title to Peru of more than 350 artifacts — ceramics and metal and stone objects — that are considered to be of museum quality and several thousand fragments, bones and other objects considered to be primarily of interest to researchers. The agreement, which establishes an extensive collaborative relationship between Yale and Peru, provides for an international traveling exhibition.”