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...The scandal triggered the resignation of then director Hartwig Fischer....
...Osborne said: “Nobody has ever doubted Hartwig’s integrity, his dedication to the job or his love for the museum.”...
...The trustees held a meeting on Bank Holiday Monday after it emerged that 2,000 items had been taken from its huge collection, leading to the resignation of Hartwig Fischer, its director....
...“We are going to fix what has gone wrong,” said George Osborne, former Tory chancellor and British Museum chair....
...It triggered the resignation of director Hartwig Fischer and focused attention on the shortcomings of the museum’s records as well as its security protocols....
...Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, quit on Friday over his response to the thefts, admitting the institution faced a situation “of the utmost seriousness”....
...George Osborne, British Museum chair, believes that a historic cultural swap deal with Greece involving the Parthenon Sculptures can still be pulled off, in spite of the crisis over thefts at the London...
...Since selling its original business to Sony, BMG has built an eclectic catalogue of artists, including Iron Maiden, Boy George and Alt-J....
...Plans are being drawn up for a £1bn renovation of the British Museum, with chair George Osborne looking to raise the funds for an extensive modernisation of one of the UK’s most popular cultural institutions...
...Many are scooping up lucrative back catalogues with more than $1bn of deals up for grabs over the coming year, according to Hartwig Masuch, chief executive of BMG....
...The scale of the ambitious project has been likened by its director Hartwig Fischer to the massive revamp of the Louvre in Paris or the 10-year renovation of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum....
...Director Hartwig Fischer said, “We have pushed him off the pedestal where nobody looked at him, and placed him in the limelight” — where the museum scrutinises itself and its past....
...shortlisted candidate is the National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art in Newmarket, opened in November 2016, which has brought together examples of British sporting art such as works by George...
...Pop legend Boy George once derisively called record-company executives “bank managers who wear jeans,” a view Hartwig Masuch, the be-jeaned chief executive of music-rights group BMG, seems to share....
...“Meteors,” says Hartwig, “they’re covered by insurance, but not factored into premiums....
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