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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Cultural Property Lawyers Must Remain Alert to Antiquities Trafficking and Money Laundering
- 7 Questions You Have About the Manhattan DA’s Agreement with “A New York Antiquities Collector”
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- No “Seize and Send” in Prosecution Involving Mosaic Reportedly from Syria
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- You Don't Say.
- Looted Symes Objects Returned to Italy
- Looted Symes Objects Returned to Greece
- Stolen Head Returned to Torlonia Collection
- Bubbly Fields on Merovingian Coins: The 'Peckham Hoard'
- Gianfranco Adornato on Some Objects Repatriated From Dodgy US Market
- Crimean Coin Taken by Soviets from Museum Collection Sold for Record Price
- Physical Evidence of the 2014-2024 War in Ukraine
- Collectors and their Notorious Inability to Profit from Sharing Information
- Bakhmut Museum
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- 27 Objects Seized From the Met
- Smash and Smash at the Dallas Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Marlowe’s Review of ‘The Brutish Museum’
- The Terrific Pandora Papers Looted Art Article
- Italian Senate renews call for return of the ‘Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth’
- Psychics, Bowie knives, fake Alamo artifacts: New Book out today on how Texas can’t shake the Alamo
- Online Symposium on the Benin Bronzes Friday Apr. 9
- University of Aberdeen will repatriate a Benin bronze to Nigeria
- Art Museum intruders escaped by boat last night in Houston
- At least they left most of the art alone
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Sourcing Makron
- Fragments from a cup attributed to Makron
- Princeton Fragments from an Attic Cup
- Developments at Princeton
- Amphora fragment seized from Princeton
- Return of antiquities to Türkiye
- Bronze Hydria Returns to Greece
- Further returns to Greece
- UK Government and the Parthenon: Update
- A Roman fresco fragment and some apparent cut marks
- Conflict Antiquities
- propagandist fighter Maxim Fomin and the supply of metal detectors by artefact hunters for mine clearing by Russia’s forces in Ukraine
- Destructive Exploitation and care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management (DECOPE)
- a very low estimate of metal-detecting in the United Kingdom, according to the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- loot and forgeries from Eastern Europe on the market in Western Europe, regardless of Russia’s war on Ukraine
- artefact-hunting in drug plantations and by cannabis-cultivators in Ukraine (around 2014)
- attitudes to personal and public health precautions among artefact-hunters amid the Covid-19 pandemic
- human rights worker and anti-imperialist fighter Maksym Butkevych has been captured by Russia’s invading forces
- Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s cultural property is proof of its intent to commit genocide.
- Russia is subjecting cultural heritage workers and other civilians to the war crime of forced military labour.
- There is a market in Belarus for cultural property that has been stolen from Ukraine, pillaged by Russia’s soldiers and mercenaries.
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- The Amelia Conference - June 23-25, 2023 - Registration is now open
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- 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference - Save the Date & Call for Presenters
- 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer
- Penelope Jackson The Art of Copying Art
- Burglars strike the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden
- A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador
- The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled not to drop the antiquities trafficking indictment against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier
- Ukraine very own, "Arsène Lupin" is sentenced to five years in French prison
- "Con il traffico di opere d'arte ci manteniamo la famiglia." Words from Cosa Nostra Boss Matteo Messina Denaro?
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- Against "Displacement": A Thought about Hilgert's "Culture Matters"
- 100 antiquities police officers needed, 7 on the books
- A due diligence checklist -- the starting point for a calibrated taxing system for antiquities or for a registration system
- A possible second-best solution for orphaned antiquities?
- U.S. Senators are pushing for Native American Artifact legislation -- but will it do any good?
- Libya: Cultural Racketeering by the Actual Mafia and What it Tells Us about How It Should Be Fought
- Parcak's Peru Project: What about the looters?
- If Florence can lease its piazzas, why can't museums lease antiquities to raise $ to protect sites?
- "Safe haven" self-justifies collector/curator/dealer in smuggling Pakistani artifacts
- Imagine if Hobby Lobby had had to pay a Pigovian tax on the antiquities it purchased
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- A quick update
- Greek bid to reject Sotheby’s lawsuit over bronze horse rejected
- Parthenon Marbles to return due to Brexit mixup
- The man who’s grandfather’s art was looted by the Nazis
- Heirs of prior owner of Matisse’s Portrait of Greta Moll claim rebuffed
- Greece’s new Culture Minister
- LBC interview
- Talk in Brussels on Giovanni Battista Lusieri, Elgin’s agent in Athens
- Could Brexit present an opportunity to return the Parthenon Marbles?
- The continuing campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
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