s difficult to build a powerful case against their continued stay in Britain. Still, the arguments continue to thrive, and probably will for the foreseeable future. However, this is perhaps not a bad thing. It is hard to overstate the importance of this debate in relation to the art world. This argument represents more than a brawl between two nations. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre in Paris, and all other western museums contain vast collections of work from other parts of the world. These marbles symbolize the cultural property in all of the world’s museums, and this debate affects them all. ...
