My LA Times Op-Ed: More Ceasefire Proposals for the Cultural-Property Wars

Those of you who rose earlier than I did on this holiday Monday probably beat me to this link. But here’s my cultural property Op-Ed piece in today’s LA Times—Make Art Loans, Not War.
It is, as you will see, the missing Part III of my series of posts last November, presenting “My Ceasefire Proposals for the Cultural-Property Wars”—here and here.
Those of you coming to this blog for the first time today from the LA Times might want to catch up with the CultureGrrl faithful by perusing those previous commentaries.
At the end of the second post, I promised: COMING SOON: The case for a licit market and “citizen archaelogists.” I hope you interpreted “soon” loosely.
At some point, I realized that this topic was ripe for an Op-Ed and that the departure of the Met’s Euphronios vase would provide a news angle. That’s why I delayed getting back to you on the most provocative of my proposals.
But wait! It seems that Michael Brand of the Getty Museum has also been doing some thinking about cultural-property issues. (This is news?) COMING SOON (and I do mean soon).