On May 4, 2012, Jason Felch, one of the co-authors of Chasing Aphrodite reported that “An Italian court has upheld an order for the seizure of a masterpiece of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, finding that the bronze statue of a victorious athlete was illegally exported from Italy before the museum purchased it for $4 million in 1976.”
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Thank you to Sofia Tomilenko (the artist from Kyiv, Ukraine who made this Lady Liberty for us) and ALL the artists who make our life more meaningful and vibrant this year! Let there be light in 2026!
