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- Kwame Opoku – Even English Institutions Are Discussing Restitution: Effects Of Sarr-Savoy Report?
- Insider theft – PITTSBURGH (AP) – A former librarian and a bookseller have pleaded guilty in the theft of rare books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in a years-long scheme.
- Kwame Opoku – MIRACLE ABJURED: STÉPHANE MARTIN REITERATES HIS OBJECTION TO RESTITUTION OF LOOTED AFRICAN ARTEFACTS
- Kwame Opoku – Zahi Hawass Is Back: When Will Nefertiti Return Home To Egypt?
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- 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
- CPAC Considers Import Restrictions on Cultural Property from Chile and Jordan
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- The IFAR Art Law & Cultural Property Database
- Elmyr de Hory Documentary Screening in New York Wednesday Evening
- Essay on Financial Innovation and the Market for Pop Art
- Supreme Court waiting on Solicitor General before deciding on certiorari in the Guelph Treasure dispute
- Lord Elgin and the Parthenon featured on Stuff You Missed in History Class
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- Help the Guardian locate Benin bronze statues in the UK
- reputation-laundering through the art market in Europe
- cleaning dirty money from tainted antiquities and cleaning dirty money with clean antiques, in North America, Europe and Asia: art trading and money laundering
- mental health and treasure-hunting
- sex and treasure: women’s participation in looting and trafficking of Mediterranean antiquities
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Christies Auction Identification and Restitution: A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment of Sidmara Type
- Charge of unlawful possession of items of cultural value has been added to existing charges against Vasil Bozhkov
- 19 profiles, posting to just one thread, within one private group, on one social media site. How many more are out there just like this one?
- Convictions in the Nizam Museum Theft.
- The less than clear origins of fugitive Vasil Bozhkov's Thrace and Private Collection
- 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
- “Wasteful & Unnecessary” Spending: Trump Dumps Arts & Humanities, IMLS, Public Broadcasting (again)
- Singing & Signing: How Christine Sun Kim Brought Her Whitney-Biennial “Rage” to the Super Bowl
- The Obama Portraits: The Book, The Traveling Exhibition, T-Shirts, Coasters, Umbrella…
- Rally for the Right to Bear (& to scare with) Arms Prompted “Extensive Precautions” at Virginia MFA
- MoMA & the Nouvel Kid on the Block: Revenge of American Folk Art Museum’s Demolished Building?
Search Results for: Gianfranco Becchina
UPDATED > Sleeping Beauty: Seizure of Sarcophagus in New York Shows Value of Becchina Dossier
UPDATE September 2014: Japanese dealer Noriyoshi Horiuchi has agreed to return the sarcophagus lid to Italy in a stipulation reached with the federal government. Rick St. Hilaire has the news here. UPDATE: After a 13 year legal battle, Switzerland has returned to … Continue reading
The Becchina Dossier: A New Window into the Illicit Trade
Italian culture reporter Fabio Isman has an important story in the current issue of the Art Newspaper [no link available yet] about Gianfranco Becchina, the retired Sicilian antiquities dealer who now faces trial in Rome for conspiracy to traffic in … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Fabio Isman, Getty Museum, Gianfranco Becchina, illicit antiquities, Loot, looting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sicily, The Art Newspaper
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
Dallas Museum of Art Returns Orpheus Mosaic, Five Other Looted Treasures in Announcing New Art Loans Initiative
The Dallas Museum of Art has agreed to return six looted antiquities from its collection and announced a broad new initiative to exchange expertise and artwork with cultural institutions around the world. “The problems of illegal excavation and the illicit … Continue reading
Kapoor Case: Investigation into Stolen Indian Idols Will Test Museum Transparency
The investigation of antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor, which made international headlines this week when federal agents raided his Manhattan warehouse, promises to shine a bright light on the illicit trade in antiquities smuggled out of India and other South Asian countries … Continue reading
The Getty List: 10 Objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum that Turkey Says Were Looted
Among the dozens of allegedly looted antiquities that the government of Turkey is asking American museums to return are ten objects at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Getty declined to provide a list of the objects in question, as … Continue reading
Kimbell Art Museum Responds To Questions About Ancient Cup Acquired Under Timothy Potts
The Kimbell Art Museum has decided to list one of its prized possessions — a Greek cup acquired in 2000 under then-director Timothy Potts — on a public registry of ancient art with unclear origins. The move comes after Jason … Continue reading
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Tagged AAMD, Elie Borowski, Getty Museum, Giacomo Medici, Gianfranco Becchina, James Cuno, Kimbell Art Museum, Robert Guy, Robert Hecht, Timothy Potts
New Wave of Returns: Hundreds of Looted Antiquities Recovered from the Met, Princeton and Others
On Jan 20, the Italian art squad announced the return of more than 200 antiquities from US museums, companies, collectors and dealers — all the product of illegal excavation or theft. The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned forty pieces belonging to … Continue reading
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Tagged Carabinieri, Cleveland Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Dietrich von Bothmer, Edoardo Almagià, FBI, Giacomo Medici, Gianfranco Becchina, Humana, Indiana University Art Museum, Jerome Eisenberg, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MFA Boston, Michael Padgett, Princeton University, Robert Hecht, Robin Symes, Royal-Athena Gallery, San Antonio Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art
The Best of Chasing Aphrodite 2011
Happy New Year! We want to share our profound thanks for the 24,000 visits we’ve had since we launched this site with the release of Chasing Aphrodite last May. You’ve helped make the book a success while shining a light on … Continue reading
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