The Red & Black

Artist recreates Parthenon's surfaces before its destruction

The Georgia Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, “An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine Schwab,” helps explain the damaged relief sculptures of the Parthenon, the temple often ...
Artnet

The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: From the Slopes of Mount Pentelikos

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...
Artnet

The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries—But the Tide Is Turning. Here’s Why I Expect Them to Be Returned by 2030

Twenty-five years ago, in the preface to the 1997 edition of his book The Parthenon Marbles, Christopher Hitchens observed that “those who support the status quo at the British Museum have the great ...
Architectural Record

Background Notes: The Parthenon and its Panathenaic Frieze

As would be expected, the opening of the New Acropolis Museum has re-ignited the debate about the return of the Parthenon’s so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. At the opening on June 21 of the museum ...
The Globe and Mail

Greece is making a play for all the Parthenon marbles – if the British Museum will play along

The Acropolis Museum in Athens is an exercise in optimism on a national scale. It was built largely to house the Parthenon marbles and other artifacts of the cradle of democracy. Not just some of the ...