“[What] would it be if, in order to know the art, you always had to go to Greece, to know Mesopotamian art you had to go to [the Middle East]?” de Montebello asked. “What kind of a world would that be?"
Yes, and what kind of world would it be if when you went to the Middle East you found thousands of archaeological sites missing their artifacts?
You may be interested in my comments on this rather weak performance by a person who had been for decades the director of one of the leading museums in the world.
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