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Ton Cremer’s MSN- Protected: Stolen art haul recovered from home of V&A worker: From the archive, 5 June 1954 | From the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
- Protected: When is an Utrillo not an Utrillo? – The Art Newspaper
- Protected: Christies pulls works after forgery concerns – The Art Newspaper
- Protected: How Timbuktu’s manuscripts were smuggled to safety
- Protected: SCOOP: New Evidence Of Stolen Idols at the National Gallery of Australia | CHASING APHRODITE
Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire- Museum of Fine Arts Curator Offers Due Diligence Model, Saying "Ignorance is No Excuse"
- Statues From New York's Met Museum Repatriated to Cambodia
- Want to Learn More About Cultural Property Law?
- Black or White? Carved Rhino Horns Sold at Auction, Targeted for Forfeiture
- Paleontological Resources Preservation Act Regulations Proposed
Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
It Surfaced Down Under
David Gill’s Looting Matters
Conflict Antiquities- Occupy Gezi: a summary of the origins and development of the protests
- We won: Herefordshire’s campaign against the severing of museum funding
- free archaeology: austerity Britain – museum workers and entire workforces are replaced with volunteers
- Lebanon: police sting on Syrian antiquities smuggler-dealers
- free archaeology in Turkey: the archaeology graduate without a future
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art- Amsterdam Diary: "Van Gogh at Work" rebukes myth of solitary impulsive genius with the story of a disciplined artist influenced by his peersCrowd at Van Gogh's Potato Eaters Sunday afternoon AMSTERDAM, Sunday - This weekend the Van Gogh Museum attracted the same high-density crowd through its doors as the nearby Rijksmuseum. After a nine-month closure, the museum re-opened with "Van Gogh at Work", an educational exhibit focusing on Vincent Van Gogh's disciplined training to b […]
- Amsterdam Diary: Visiting the newly opened Rijksmuseum is worth the stopover (and the day)Inside the Rijksmuseum bike tunnel by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief SUNDAY, Amsterdam - Saturday morning I avoided getting lost cycling through Amsterdam by using the Google maps I had printed out before I'd left home. I stopped by De Bakkerswinkel for thick buttered raisin bread and a latte for breakfast -- a crucial element as […]
- Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Publishes Annual Bulletins of Stolen Art OnlineTon Cremers for Museum Security Network sent out a valuable link to "Art in Ostaggio - Art in Hostage", bilingual bulletins of stolen works of art prepared by the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale from 2004-2012 designed to combat against the worldwide problem of the illegal art market. The 124-page report for 2012 includes a statemen […]
- Amsterdam Diary: Personal suffering displayed at World Press Photo Exhibit Amidst Red Light DistrictWorld Press Photo Exhibit at De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief SATURDAY, Amsterdam - Yesterday I arrived in Amsterdam and biked over to the World Press Photo exhibit at De Oude Kerk ('The Old Church') in the Red Light district famous for women selling their bodies in front windows and customers smoking […]
- Report from Amelia: ARCA Intern Sophia Kisielewska Writes about Dr. Tom Flynn's "Art & Business" CoursePhoto of ARCA Class 2013 by Sophia Kisielewska, ARCA Intern This week’s course, "The International Art Market and Associated Risk" was led by Dr. Tom Flynn, London Art Lecturer, Docent and Art Historian. Dr. Flynn started Monday’s class by asking the students to consider the question ‘what is the relationship between economic and aesthetic value’. […]
- Amsterdam Diary: "Van Gogh at Work" rebukes myth of solitary impulsive genius with the story of a disciplined artist influenced by his peers
Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag- Juan Cole visits the Iraq Museum
- 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
Elginism — Repatriation Issues- Look but don’t touch doesn’t seem to apply at the British Museum
- The Lego Acropolis at Sydney’s Nicholson Museum
- Feds sieze over $100 million in smuggled art from Subhash Kapoor
- Fourth birthday for New Acropolis Museum – but when will it get its star exhibit?
- Germany’s Pfahlbaumuseum will return 8,000 illegally excavated pottery fragments to Greece
Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl- Everyone But the Artist: Gehry, Govan, Campbell, Barron and Prather at Ken Price Retrospective (with video)
- Detroit’s Emergency Manager’s Proposals Spare Detroit Institute’s Art (plus DIA’s work behind scenes)
- Best Artworld News You’ve Had Today: Michigan AG Opposes Sales of Detroit Institute’s Art UPDATED TWICE
- Ownership vs. Stewardship: Timothy Rub on the “New Order of the Day” for Cultural Property CORRECTED
- AAMD President Timothy Rub and the New Rules for Cultural-Property Engagement
Tom Flynn- Art Loss Register business model under scrutiny yet again
- Christie's to disperse extraordinary sculpture from Dunsborough Park
- 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')
Law Enforcement
- FBI Art Squad FBI’s Art Detail
- Carabinieri Art Squad The Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, Italy’s Art Squad.
- Interpol Art Detail Interpol has tracked the trade in stolen art since 1947.
- ICE ICE Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Museums
- The Getty The website of the J. Paul Getty Trust
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Greek and Roman Galleries of the Met
- Boston MFA Art of the Ancient World at the Boston MFA
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UPDATED: The Met Returns Two Khmer Statues to Cambodia, Citing Clear Evidence Of Looting
UPDATE: The New York Times reported May 15 that Cambodia is also planning to ask for the return of a statue of Hanuman at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This is in addition to the Norton Simon Bhima and the … Continue reading
BREAKING: Judge rules in favor of Cambodia, Denies Sotheby’s Motion to Dismiss Claim to Khmer Statue
A New York judge has denied Sotheby’s motion to dismiss Cambodia’s claim — brought on its behalf by the US government — that a 10th century Khmer statue was looted and should be returned. District court judge George B. Daniels … Continue reading
The Battle for Koh Ker: Legal Implications of Cambodia’s Dispute with Sotheby’s
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
UPDATED: Latchford’s Footprints in Berlin: A Khmer Ganesh and other loans to the Asian Art Museum
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
Decoding Eakin: Behind ‘Extortion’ Claim, Fear the Floodgates Have Opened
It is no coincidence that The Great Giveback, Hugh Eakin’s lengthy argument against the repatriation of looted antiquities, landed in The New York Times on Sunday, just as the directors of America’s leading art museums gathered in Kansas City for their annual meeting. … 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
Latchford’s Footprints: Suspect Khmer Art at the Kimbell and the Met
We’re continuing to trace suspect Cambodian antiquities linked to Douglas Latchford, the man at the center of the on-going federal looting probe that we’ve detailed in previous posts here. Last week we wrote about suspect Khmer antiquities at the Denver Art Museum. … 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
The Guardian and the Goddess: Looted Statues Reveal Workings of Illicit Trade
What does a 10th century Khmer temple warrior have in common with a Greek cult goddess from the 5th Century B.C.? Quite a bit, it turns out. Both were objects of veneration whose remarkable craftsmanship represented the apex of their respective … Continue reading
