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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- OFAC Puts High-Value Art Market Participants on Notice
- Brooklyn Man Indicted for Egyptian Artifact Smuggling. Did COVID-19 Impact Grand Jury Selection?
- Cultural Property Lawyers Take Note: ABA Ethics Opinion Warns About Criminal Clients
- No "Seize and Send" in Prosecution Involving Mosaic Reportedly from Syria
- Costa Rica Petitions U.S. for Archaeological Import Controls
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- Manhattan Antiquities Dealers Arrested in Fraud Scheme
- What will happen to art made for the Black Lives Matter movement?
- Supreme Court to Hear Case involving Nazi-era sale of the Guelph Treasure
- Children’s Book Recommendation: ‘Isabella: Artist Extraordinaire’
- Facebook will remove posts selling cultural objects
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- Private ‘rescue’-by-purchase of stolen cultural goods: The material and social consequences and the complicity of Europe and North America
- trafficking of forgeries by forced migrants and forced migrants as false provenances for forgeries
- 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
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Unpacking what has been made public in the investigation into the recently restituted Egyptian stela in the name of the Head of the Elders of the Portal of Hathor-Lady-of-Mefket, Pa-di-séna
- "Provenance Research Today" book release to debut at the International Catalogue Raisonné Association conference
- Three suspects in the burglary theft at the Green Vault have been arrested in Berlin.
- Exhibiting Absence: Introducing Samsung’s Missing Masterpieces
- Biggest Theft in Hong Kong History from Stamp Collector
- 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
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- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- A U.S. “Ministry of Culture” Under Biden? Just Say No, Joe! UPDATED
- Obama’s Return Engagement at the National Portrait Gallery: His “60 Minutes” Close-Up
- “Fraudulent Avoidance of Sales Tax”: NY Attorney General’s Lawsuit vs. Sotheby’s UPDATED
- The Late Joseph Rishel, 80: Witty, Erudite Curator Extraordinaire
- Bronx Cheer! Hall of Fame for Great Americans (Championed Here) Gets an NEH Chairman’s Grant CORRECTED
Search Results for: Art Loss Register
Optical Due Diligence: Art Loss Register Claims To Vet Ancient Art. Does it?
UPDATE 8/9/14: The Sunday Times has published another devastating report on the Art Loss Register’s business practices. ALR Founder Julian Radcliffe admits paying thieves to recover stolen art in a dozen cases and is described as a “fence” by senior European … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, Art Loss Register, Bonhams, Carabinieri, Christies, David Gill, due diligence, Julian Radcliffe, Sotheby's, Subhash Kapoor
The Sidon Bull’s Head: Court Record Documents a Journey Through the Illicit Antiquities Trade
The journey of an ancient sculpture of a bull’s head from its theft during the Lebanese civil war through the shadowy corners and winding pathways of the international antiquities black market. Continue reading
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Tagged Art Loss Register, Carlos Picon, Christies, Christos Tsirogiannis, Frieda Tchakos, Geneva Freeport, Hicham Aboutaam, Lebanon, Lynda and William Beierwaltes, Manhattan District Attorney, MAthew Bogdanos, Max Bernheimer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Steinhardt, Phoenix Ancient Art, Robin Symes, Sarkis Khoury, Sharon Cott, Sotheby's, Temple of Eshmun, Thomas Campbell
The End of the Beginning: NGA Returns Kushan Buddha and Two Kapoor Objects
On Monday, the National Gallery of Australia returned three more antiquities to India in light of evidence – much of it first made public here – that they had been stolen from temples or archaeological sites, smuggled out of India … Continue reading
The Kushan Buddhas: Nancy Wiener, Douglas Latchford and New Questions about Ancient Buddhas
In 2005, Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum was offered a rare sculpture of a Seated Buddha carved from red sandstone in the second century. It was from India’s ancient city of Mathura, the second capital of the Kushan empire, and one … Continue reading
UPDATED > Trouble in Toledo: Feds Investigate Stolen Ganesh, Other Objects from Kapoor at Toledo Museum
Let the Lotus Feet of Lord Ganesha, from whom scriptures sprout, confer on us unmixed blessings. Like thunderbolts, let them shatter away hurdles that are heaped like mountains. ─ Prayers to Ganesha UPDATE 10/2/14: The Toledo Museum announced it would … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Kennedy, Carolyn Putney, Ganesh, Selina Mohamed, Subhash Kapoor, Tamil Nadu, Toledo Museum
Unprecedented: Australia’s National Gallery Sues Kapoor Over $5 Million Stolen Shiva
UPDATE 2/15: The Hindu has revealed new evidence that the Shiva was stolen — a photograph of the bronze taken in situ some 30 years ago. Tamil Nadu police have confirmed the match, reports A. Srivathsan. Vijay Kumar has demonstrated previously … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Freedman, Art of the Past, National Gallery of Australia, Ron Radford, Shiva, Subhash Kapoor
UPDATED: Documents Suggest More Stolen Idols At National Gallery Of Australia
UPDATE 4/10/14: Indian authorities have asked regional police and the public to help identify the origin of the two Dvarapalas that Kapoor sold to the NGA. Last week we revealed documents suggesting the $5 million bronze Dancing Shiva purchased by the National Gallery … Continue reading
SCOOP: New Evidence Of Stolen Idols at the National Gallery of Australia
UPDATE 11/6: The NGA has released a statement saying there is no “conclusive evidence” the sculpture was stolen. See below. UPDATE 6/12: Since publishing this post we’ve received documents that show the National Gallery of Art purchased the Dancing Shiva … Continue reading
Test Case: Peter Tompa on CPAC, the Supreme Court and the Trade in Ancient Coins
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to respond to a petition from the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild challenging federal import restrictions on ancient coins with unclear ownership histories. The ACCG case started in 2009 … Continue reading
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