Talk:Neil MacGregor

message: A person who does not have a WIKIPEDIA account added this statement: New Appointment as Director for the Berliner Stadtschloss 8 April 2015. This is without any reference to the source of this information and has been removed. The statement does not agree with the official press release of the British Museum. Shirazibustan (talk) 14:23, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-retirement activities 

message: What is given here does not seem to square with what is appearing in the German press and, from that, the actualities in Berlin.  Perhaps this should be mended in due course. SirGeorgeHill (talk) 11:04, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Please consider doing that! I would be very interested to know the angle in the German press, but the British press is unlikely to report on it. Ham II (talk) 13:09, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Directorship of the Humboldt Forum

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message: The introduction of the details around the Elgin marble debate and the comments of Jeremy Corbyn after the departure of MacGregor are more or less irrelevant to the purpose of this article, which is one of biography. Regardless of what we think of the ownership of the marbles, the evidence presented here should migrate to the relevant place, otherwise it looks like this is being made a soap-box, and thus outside WIKI guidelines. There are things said here which do not have adequate sources as well -- there may be sources, but they are not given.SirGeorgeHill (talk) 14:34, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think there is over-emphasis here. I'm surprised we don't have a separate article on the controversy, which also over-dominates Elgin Marbles. It would be better to float it off. Johnbod (talk) 14:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Outside of Britain, the British Museum is perhaps primarily known through the Parthenon Marbles and other similar controversies surrounding looting, so interest in MacGregor is naturally connected to his own very controversial stances on this, for which there is no lack of sources.94.66.57.76 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 14:40, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

text: I may join one day! Concerning one of the above comments though, I should add that I do not actually find it strange that the Elgin Marbles article is dominated by the controversy surrounding repatriation rather than the sculptures themselves.  The "Elgin marbles" are not an artistic unity. The Elgin Marbles constitute about half of the Parthenon sculptures and they appear to have been selected by Elgin's agents on the basis of ease of removal and suitability as ornamentation for Elgin's manor house. It is difficult to discuss artistically the "Elgin Marbles" without discussing the adjacent marbles which Elgin wasn't able to pull off the Parthenon frieze and metopes and happily remain in Athens. Indeed, the totality of the Parthenon sculptures themselves are discussed in the article the Parthenon Frieze. If you come to Athens and see the presentation in the Acropolis Museum, you will understand what I am talking about. Anyway, I'm just saying that the very concept of "Elgin marbles", not to mention the name, is a concept intimately connected to the controversy of their removal and could never naturally be studied alone simply as "artistic objects", without their broader context (i.e. the slabs of stone to their left and right). Hence the high profile of the controversy and the international interest (not only in Greece!) in exactly how British Museum directors over the years like MacGregor have tried to justify this state of affairs in their public statements.94.66.57.76 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:21, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elgin Marble discussion. 

message: Rather a lot of this here, with various personal anecdotes given that are not sourced. Much of it depends on Adams, Tim (8 June 2003). "His place in history". The Observer, but the link leads to the TLS and not the data in question. SirGeorgeHill (talk) 15:00, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hagiography 

message: The section on MacGregor's media work could mention that he has presented a programme on BBC Radio Four called "How Others See Us", looking at how his own country (the United Kingdom) is seen by other countries around the world. Vorbee (talk) 09:08, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.   Um ... why don't you do it?   And thank you "im Voraus"!  Charles01 (talk) 09:12, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

text: All right  - I have put it in now. Vorbee (talk) 08:55, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: How Others See Us