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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Costa Rica Petitions U.S. for Archaeological Import Controls
- CPAC Meets Tuesday to Consider Turkey and Tunisia Cultural Property Requests
- Antiquities Trafficking Indictment Unsealed: Latchford Prosecution Raises Legal Issues
- At the Crossroads of Cultural Heritage Preservation: SCOTUS Rules on the Peace Cross and the Establishment Clause
- El Salvador Seeks U.S. Renewal of Cultural Property MoU
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- Turkey’s Gendarmerie caught a Covid-19-infected, health emergency worker-impersonating antiquities trafficker
- the international conference on Handling of Cultural Goods and Financing of Political Violence, at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, has been postponed
- fuelling of an illicit market and financing of political violence in Syria, feeding of propaganda around the world
- Help the Guardian locate Benin bronze statues in the UK
- reputation-laundering through the art market in Europe
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Prosecutors file a civil forfeiture complaint for the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet which they say was looted from Iraq.
- INTERPOL, Europol and World Customs Organization joint investigation produce results.
- Remembering the long returned Orpheus Taming the Beasts Mosaic
- Christ Church loans and other Dirk Obbink answered and unanswered questions.
- Shocking images of the theft of the Van Gogh in Holland shows thief used a sledgehammer
- 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?
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- Going for the Archrival’s Jugular? Christie’s Assures Clients About Its “Continuity of Activity”
- Mark Rodrick Lauds the Late Tom Sokolowski’s Work to Save the Jersey City Museum’s Collection
- Thomas Sokolowski Dies at 70: Incorrigible Warholian, Thrice Museum Director
- Sotheby’s Reports $71.2m Loss & “Substantial Doubt” About Continuing; Major June Sales Planned
- Covid Obit: William Gerdts, 91, Distinguished Scholar of American Art (& my tipster)
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