Readers React: What the Getty Museum does for art

I do not mean this to condone the Getty Museum’s acquisition practices of looted antiquities, but an important fact is nevertheless overlooked due to the sensational nature of the world’s richest museum. (“Sorry, Italy, the ‘Getty Bronze’ belongs in L.A.,” Editorial, June 2)

Most often the looted art objects such as “Aphrodite” and the “Getty Bronze” are discovered in the worst possible condition, damaged by centuries of exposure to environmental elements, including earthquakes.

The Getty Museum expends hundreds of thousands of dollars to conserve and protect every looted and damaged antiquity, utilizing state-of-the-art methodologies not available anywhere else.

Such Getty contributions remain as valuable gifts to the art world, regardless of where these pieces are exhibited.

Jack Yaghoubian

Toluca Lake