ART

Getty Won’t Get Sculpture: The J. Paul Getty Museum was denied a license to export a $12-million sculpture after the British government announced new guidelines to keep art treasures in Britain. The Department of Trade and Industry announced Friday that works of art considered important to Britain’s heritage cannot be exported if a British buyer can be found. The Getty Museum applied to export Canova’s “Three Graces,” a 19th-Century statue of three standing nude women, from Britain in March 1989, after its $12.4-million bid was accepted by the sculpture’s owners, a trust in Britain’s Caribbean Cayman Islands colony.