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 (Copy)

Dan Hicks, “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”, Artnet News, December 15, 2021.

“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 advantage of inertia on their side.” Today, things could hardly be more different.”