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DESCRIPTION:Glenn D. Lowry\n\nDirector\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York Ci
 ty\n\nThe Friends of the ɬÀï·¬ Library are hosting Glenn D. Lowry\, Direc
 tor of The Museum of Modern Art\, in New York City\, for a lecture examini
 ng several recent cases involving claims for restitution of works of art a
 nd the many social\, political\, and legal issues involved in determining 
 their outcome.\n\nAbstract\n\nSince the earliest civilizations\, art has p
 layed an integral role in the development of society.  Throughout history\
 , art has been produced and accumulated as a way to understand\, influence
  and provoke.  The history of art\, on the other hand\, has been plagued w
 ith theft\, deceit and violence.  Under Napoleon\, French armies hauled th
 e Pharonic structures of Egypt to Paris\, while the English were transport
 ing Greece’s Elgin Marbles to London.  During World War II homes were plun
 dered and looted\; in the cold war of Vietnam\, Cambodian sculptures were 
 being airlifted\, and even as recent as the war in Iraq\, archaeological s
 ites were pillaged and artifacts have disappeared.\n\nChanging attitudes\,
  globalization\, and the spread of both international law and civil lawsui
 ts have emboldened aggrieved nations and individuals to demand the return 
 of cultural property seized by enemy forces or through persecution decades
  or even centuries ago. Over the past two decades\, the world of museums h
 as become politically charged: Does a country that produced cultural prope
 rty have the right to it\, the heirs of the individuals who previously own
 ed the works\, or museums and their visitors from around the world who are
  given the opportunity to appreciate these items that illuminate our share
 d human history.\n\nClaims for restitution often have a legal and moral as
 pect\, so what is the law’s role in the current judicial paradigm.  Are re
 sponsible\, legal\, ethical solutions to disputes possible?\n\nAbout the s
 peaker\n\nGlenn D. Lowry has been the Director of the Museum of Modern Art
  (MoMA) since 1995. Mr. Lowry\, an Islamic art specialist with a doctorate
  from Harvard\, engineered one of the most ambitious expansions in museum 
 history\, an $858 million renovation\, completed in 2004\, that nearly dou
 bled MoMA’s size.   Mr. Lowry moved to New York City after his successful 
 tenure at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto\, ON.  He is regarded as a
  deft administrator and world-class fund-raiser who reshaped a huge\, unwi
 eldy institution at a crossroads in its history. \n\nThis lecture is prese
 nted as part of the annual Friends of ɬÀï·¬ Library F.R. Scott lecture in
  partnership with Heenan Blaikie Law Firm.  F.R. Scott was a poet\, consti
 tutional lawyer\, and politician.  He completed his schooling in Québec in
  1919\, taught for one year\, and then went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar 
 in 1920. Scott returned to Montréal in 1923 and entered the Law School at 
 ɬÀï·¬ in 1924.  In 1928 he joined the Law Faculty at ɬÀï·¬ Un
 iversity and served as the dean from 1961 to 1964.  He died in 1985.\n\nLi
 mited seating. Please RSVP at rsvp.libraries [at] mcgill.ca or 514.398.468
 1\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:ɬÀï·¬ Library 2012 F.R. Scott lecture - A Fine Balance: When Art a
 nd Law Meet
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