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Ton Cremer’s MSN- Protected: Money Launderers Using Art to Cover Criminality
- Protected: Glafira Rosales Is Named in Government Suit – Dealer at Center of Art Scandal Arrested on Tax Charges
- Protected: Looting Matters: Dr Mona Ackerman and Robin Symes
- Protected: BBC News – How the British Museum protects more than seven million objects
- Protected: How A Hartford Wise Guy Got Caught Up In A $500 Million Museum Heist – Courant.com
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Discovery Delay Asserted by Government as Sotheby's Seeks Preliminary Court Hearing on Cambodian Ownership
- Roman, Byzantine and Other Conflict Antiquities from Syria
- Government Petitions to Dismiss Charges in Korean Currency Case
- U.S. Attorney Files Complaint to Forfeit Peruvian Artifacts Seized at Miami International Airport
- "Claimants Deny Knowledge," Affirmative Defenses Raised in Sotheby's Cambodian Sculpture Case
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under
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- Conflict Antiquities
- Have you done free archaeology (or irrelevant labour) on workfare? Do you know someone who has? Out the ‘employers’!
- Syria: antiquities-for-arms trade – Sky News interview
- free archaeology: institutionalised exploitation in the museum sector
- free archaeology: precarisation, privatisation, austerity and workfare in the Big Society
- Syria: ‘Men With Guns’ in the antiquities-for-arms trade
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Padma Kaimal, author of "Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis" traveled to museums to study the legacy from a lost temple in South IndiaKait Murphy (ARCA '11) in front of 10th century Kanchipuram yoginiat the Sackler Galleries of Art inWashington D.C. Kait Murphy (ARCA 2011) interviews Padma Kaimal, the Author of “Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis” which examines the cultural history, theft, and reunion of South Indian temple sculptures. What happens to sacred objects lost […]
- Scottish Museums Close Tomorrow Morning as Part of a Three-Day Strike for Better Pay & PensionsLast month the Louvre staff protested against pickpockets (following a series of strikes in 1999 and 2009 against reductions in staff). This month, the staff of two Edinburgh museums will begin a three-day strike tomorrow for better pay and better pensions, reports The Scotsman: THE National Museum of Scotland and National War Museum will be closed until lun […]
- Decanter.com's John Stimpfig spotlights "The Wine Forger's Handbook" by wine journalist Stuart George and ARCA Founder Noah CharneyWine connoisseur John Stimpfig spotlights the The Wine Forger's Handbook by wine journalist Stuart George and ARCA Founder Noah Charney in Decanter.com, the online publication of the international wine magazine: The slim volume gives a short history of forgery and fraud in the wine world, before going on to detail two short case studies covering two of […]
- The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her thief, The True Story Headed to Denver Art Museum this Friday and to the Biografilm Festival in Bologna in JuneThe Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, The True Story, the documentary about the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's now famous portrait of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo from the Louvre, premiered in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on Saturday, May 11. "We were thrilled to have The Missing Piece screen at Grauman's Chinese Theate […]
- Boston Globe's Todd Wallack on "Prized stolen art frequently resurfaces after decades"John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)Painting of William Ponsonby,Second Earl of Bessborough, 1790 The Boston Globe's Todd Wallack points to the increased chance of recovery stolen art years after the theft in "Prized stolen art frequently resurfaces after decades" (May 10, 2013). Wallack recounts the recovery of John Singleton Copley's portr […]
- Padma Kaimal, author of "Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis" traveled to museums to study the legacy from a lost temple in South India
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- Governing without a state: The stakes for archaeological heritage
- Welcome, America, to the world collectors have made, in which no cultural patrimony is safe from looting, not even that of white Southerners
- On the UN's New Campaign to Educate Tourists Not to Buy Dodgy Antiquities
- Economics of Looting: The Costs of Production
- Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- Free admission & special events for International Museums Day
- Anthony Horowitz expresses his support for the return of the Parthenon Marbles
- Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
- 71 Native American Hopi & Zuni masks to be auctioned in Paris despite protests
- The British museum, Free admission & the Parthenon Marbles
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- Thomas Messer, 93, Guggenheim’s Rock-Solid Director
- Special Events: Why I’ve Stopped Writing (for now)
- Expansion Derailed: Peabody Essex Terminates Relationship with the Late Rick Mather’s Firm
- Benny Andrews Rediscovered: Holland Cotter (and my) Appreciation of Michael Rosenfeld’s Retrospective
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro May Keep Folk Art Building in Designing MoMA’s New Galleries
- Tom Flynn
- Mum’s the word: Should we alert art thieves to the value of their haul?
- Bacon slicer brings screaming pope to auction
- Lines on the Goulandris family art feud (or 'Aspasia and the Pot of Basil')
- European Commission Vice President seeks legislation to strengthen demands for restitution of “national treasures.”
- Courbet's Origin of the World: a field day for psychoanalysts
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Recently, someone suggested we look into the ties between Douglas Latchford and the Berlin Asian Art Museum, where he is said to have enjoyed a “special arrangement” for several years. As you’ll recall, Latchford is the Bangkok-based British collector who was the source … Continue reading
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Tagged AAMD, Arthur Houghton, Association of Art Museum Directors, Cleveland Museum, Cornelius Vermeule, Dietrich von Bothmer, Giacamo Medici, Harold Williams, Hugh Eakin, J. Paul Getty Museum, Jim Cuno, Jiri Frel, John Walsh, looted antiquities, Philippe de Montebello, repatriation, Robert Hecht, The Great Giveback, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Chasing Aphrodite 2012: The Year in Review
Happy New Year from Chasing Aphrodite. It’s been a year and a half since our book was published, and during that time the hunt for looted antiquities at the world’s museums has gone global. Over the past 12 months we’ve … Continue reading
Douglas Latchford’s Footprints: Suspect Khmer Antiquities At the Denver Art Museum
Who is Douglas A. J. Latchford? That is the question many are asking since the Bangkok-based British collector who describes himself as an ”adventurer-scholar” emerged at the center of the legal fight over an allegedly looted 10th Century Khmer warrior now at Sotheby’s. … Continue reading
Inside Sotheby’s: Auction House Response Reveals Key Players in Fight Over Khmer Statue
Sotheby’s has responded to the U.S. government’s amended complaint in the legal battle for the Khmer warrior from Koh Ker, arguing that the US Attorney’s failure to cite a Cambodian national ownership law is a”fatal flaw” in their effort to seize the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anu Ghosh-Mazumdar, Cambodia, Hab Touch, Henry Howard-Sneyd, Jane Levine, John Twilley, Koh Ker, Pieter Meyers, Sotheby's, Zara Porter-Hill
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The legal dispute over an ancient Khmer statue at Sotheby’s could have lasting implications for the sale of ancient art in the United States. For those catching up on the case: Sotheby’s New York was poised to put the 10th … Continue reading
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One year ago, Chasing Aphrodite hit bookstores. The amazing success we’ve enjoyed over the past twelve months is humbling, and we thought it a good opportunity to thank you, our most dedicated fans. Thank you for everything you’ve done to … Continue reading
A Blast from the Past: “Norton Simon Bought Smuggled Idol”
Imagine you’re a thief about to pull a heist at the local temple. You can’t wait to get your hands on all those statues, altarpieces, gold. In the middle of the night, you sneak up to the entrance and… (in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambodia, India, Koh Ker, looted antiquities, New York Times, Norton Simon, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Sotheby's, temple warrior
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