Museum of Cycladic Art

This guide to the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens starts with the collection's origins in the 1960s, when Athenian collectors Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris began assembling one of the finest private holdings of Cycladic art in the world. It settles on one marble figure, barely fifteen centimeters tall and labeled a stargazer, and the question of where she actually came from — a question that leads to a single looted workshop and a debate over how collectors label objects like her. Listen for how a market's easy assumptions can outlast the evidence.