Sentence examples for contested works from inspiring English sources

There are organisations monitoring the market, art historians examining contested works, archaeologists actively searching for loot, and attorneys and government authorities prepared to prosecute art crimes.

In recent years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Princeton University Art Museum have all returned contested works of art to the Italian authorities.

Known as the Elgin Marbles by those who say they belong to Britain (which acquired them from the Ottoman Turks, in 1806), and as the Parthenon Marbles by those who say they were stolen, they have become the world's most famously contested works of art.

Italy hopes to reach an accord similar to the one it struck this year with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which agreed to return 21 contested works to Italy in exchange for long-term loans of objects of equal importance.

Russia's culture minister, speaking after reading a draft of a proposed British law to confer immunity on some contested works of art, expressed optimism that an exhibition of 120 French and Russian paintings lent by four Russian museums would proceed as planned next month in London, Agence France-Presse reported.

His path from mid-western innocence tracks America's coming of age as the century progresses.In 1945 Mr Schlesinger published a major and still contested work of historical re-evaluation, "The Age of Jackson".

Another contested work, the title piece of the show, is Huang Yong Ping's 1993 "Theater of the World".

Critics also charge that museums have not followed their own guidelines, which urge them to be forthcoming with provenance information that could help people trace the history of a contested work of art.

City officials said the contested work rules were intended to guard the public image of the trash collection service and enhance safety.

For this reason, he avoided the criminal law until reform dried up his contested divorce work, and he had no alternative but to go "down the Bailey".

Though "A Separation" is not as formally self-conscious, turning as it does on competing views and after-the-fact reconstructions of a contested event, it works in a similar vein.