On the whole, last month’s conference on the cleaning of the Elgin marbles in the 1930s was pretty decorous, despite the controversies. Until the last few minutes, of course, when “the Greek press attaché was ordered to shut up, author William St Clair was ‘disinvited’ from the closing dinner and for a moment it seemed as if scuffles might break out among the warring academics.” – The Art Newspaper