Li-currently a third year medical student at Stanford University-works as a tour guide at the campus’ Cantor Arts Center. Li writes in her new novel about a fictional art heist, Portrait of a Thief: “What is art but another way of exerting power?” Were they looted or rescued-or both? Who do they really belong to? As Grace D. The affair is a centuries-long point of contention between the nations of Greece and England, who have spent the intervening years requesting and denying their return, respectively. The items, now known as the Elgin Marbles, were later sold by Elgin to the British crown and currently reside in London’s British Museum. In the early 1800s Lord Elgin, a British ambassador, removed sculptures and other cultural artifacts from Athens’ Parthenon.
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