On the introductory page for the session on Who Really Owns Art, Art for Tomorrow's site states:
As the world undergoes unprecedented change, people are searching for meaning. By grappling with core societal issues, the arts can help define that meaning, frame it and inspire change.
Moderated by senior New York Times journalists, the world-class AFT program will bring together practitioners, experts and activists to explore the social impact of the arts. In addition, attendees will explore Athens’s eclectic artistic landscape, venturing into the city’s museums, galleries, performance spaces and artist studios to see the arts in action. Delegates can then move to the island of Hydra, and the opening of Jeff Koons’s project at the DESTE Foundation’s Slaughterhouse.
Sessions included: The Athens Effect; The Art of Diplomacy; The NFT Revolution; Art and Sustainability: Friends and Foes; Who Really Owns Art and More.
To view the programme and speakers, please visit: https://www.artfortomorrow.org/event-information/past-events/2022. You will also find the recodings of the sessions on the same site or on youtube.
The Panel debating 'Who Really Owns Art?' a complex question surrounding restitution issues faced by many museums, was Tristram Hunt, Tiffany Jenkins, Victor Ehikhamenor, moderated by Farah Nayeri. Sadly Director General of the Acropolis Museum, Nikos Stampolidis was unable to deliver his address, which was read out by Kim Connif Taber, Eitorial Director, Democracy and Culture Foundation.To watch the video, follow the link here.
Farah Nayeri, Culture Writer, The New York Times, has written a book which was published at the end of February this year, entitled,'Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age'.