Greg Vitali is the real thing. |
I'm delighted. It's a fantastic and beautiful masterpiece of early Renaissance sculpture by the presiding genius of the 15th century. |
If it goes on view with other like objects, then scholars get to see it and study it; the public gets to come; the claimant, if there is one, gets to know where it is and file a claim. Who has lost in this process? |
No matter how well you market [the permanent collection], people know it. They're only going to come back so often to a collection they've seen before. They want something new. My frustration is that we have to do an either/or rather than a both. Every other museum with a collection of this quality has the option of doing both. |
We often undervalue what we have. We regularly have two-thirds of our space dedicated to visiting exhibitions, which means we hardly get a chance to show our own collection. |