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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- The Guennol Stargazer – an iconic work of art from the 3rd millennium BC… and from Turkey
- Preconceived notions detract from the scholarly value of analysis
- How many people are metal-detecting and how many cultural objects are they finding?
- quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property: estimation of the scale and intensity of metal detecting and the quantity of metal-detected cultural goods
- fake Christian manuscript, possibly from Syria, in Turkey, seized from Syrian and Turkish traffickers
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Look into my eyes, but also into my collection history.
- Blast from ARCA Program Pasts: ARCA'13 Alum Summer Clowers asks: Is the ARCA program for you? Really now.
- Art Held Hostage: Italy's Carabinieri issue its new online bulletin of stolen works of art
- Working canines: Can customs dogs be trained to sniff out smuggled antiquities?
- Auction Alert: Christie's New York and the Guennol Stargazer
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- 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
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- Could Brexit present an opportunity to return the Parthenon Marbles? - Britain has the perfect opportunity to do the right thing and resolve differences in the coming months
- The continuing campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles - Recent efforts by the IARPS in the fight for restitution
- TourismA 2017 in Florence - Parthenon Marbles round table discussion to form part of cultural tourism conference
- New finds from wreck of Elgin’s ship off Kythera - Lecture at Kings College London by Dimitris Kourkoumelis
- RIP Professor Norman Palmer - A great mind, as a barrister he defended numerous cultural property cases
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- AAMD’s Response to Metropolitan Museum’s Renegade Reorganization: “Guidance to Consider”
- Metropolitan Museum as Renegade: Reorganization Defies AAMD’s Professional Standards
- President Dan Weiss Snares Top Spot at Metropolitan Museum (with director as subordinate)
- Diller Thriller: MoMA’s Mega-Makover, An Irreverent Photo Essay
- Proud and Unbowed: Tom Campbell’s Valedictory to the Press (plus, a look to the future)
Search Results for: Cambodia
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 > Help Wanted: We’re Tracking Down Objects Sold By Nancy and Doris Wiener
In the wake of the arrest of the Manhattan antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener, we’re teaming up with our friends at the India Pride Project to track down the ancient objects she and her mother Doris Wiener sold to museums and private … Continue reading
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UPDATED > Manhattan Dealer Nancy Wiener Arrested: Criminal Complaint Alleges Sweeping Conspiracy to Sell Stolen Asian Art Through Major Auction Houses
Antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener was arrested Wednesday morning in Manhattan and charged with conspiring with international smuggling networks to buy, smuggle, launder and sell millions of dollars worth of stolen Asian art thru leading auction houses. Wiener is a second generation dealer who runs one … Continue reading
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Tagged Brent Easter, Christies, Matthew Bogdanos, Nancy Wiener, Nancy Wiener Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Sotheby's
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
Asia Week Raids: New Details on the Christie’s Seizures
This week, a series of five federal raids during New York’s Asia week led to the seizure of at least eight looted antiquities and the arrest of at least one dealer. This is the first of several posts that … Continue reading
Busted: Asia Week Raids Reveal Scope of Illicit Trade in Asian Art
Federal agents raided the Nancy Wiener Gallery on Thursday, the latest move in an aggressive crack down on the trade in ancient Asian art that has targeted several leading dealers and auction houses and shaken up New York’s Asia Week … 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
SCOOP: Bowers Museum will return 500+ Thai antiquities seized during 2008 raids
On the front page of this month’s The Art Newspaper I report that the Bowers Museum of Art has agreed to return 542 ancient vases, bowls and other artifacts to Thailand. The objects were allegedly looted from one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia … Continue reading
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