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hi there everyone hello hello and welcome to our curious news this week coming to you with your

short form news roundup,

met to bring you up to date on some of the latest goings-on in the realm of art history.

I'm your host, Jennifer Dassel, and today is Friday, March 10th, 2023.

And we've got to get to it because, whoa, I've got a bunch of stories, both big and small, that I want to share with you today.

If you listened in the last week, you might remember that I said I felt like that was a slow news week.

This will not be that. There is a lot of stuff to report here today. So first up, we've got a piece of big news.

Though the British Museum is still thought to be in talks regarding the status of their

Parthenon marbles, the Vatican this week signed in agreement that they will be returning their

very own Parthenon sculpture fragments to Greece, potentially sending them to

Athens as soon as late this month. These are three fragments, approximately 2,500 years old,

that have been part of the Vatican Museum collection for 200 years. This plan was previously announced in December after Pope Francis met with the head of the

Greek Orthodox Church and discussed this matter, and many are hopeful that this high-profile return from

one of the most important collections of art will set a precedent that cannot be ignored.

As I mentioned in previous news episodes, the debates over restitution of artworks has truly ramped up in the past couple of years.

And the Parthenon Marbles have been at the center of these debates.

I don't have any insider knowledge, but my best guess is that we're heading closer and closer to some kind of final decision from the British Museum.

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