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- Returning museum objects to former colonies risks ‘denying Britain’s history’
- Christie’s urged to pull sale of Roman statue ‘linked to illicit dealers’
- Thieves target treasures at world-renowned Green Vault museum in Dresden, Germany
- Night security man who stole artwork and sold it through Sotheby’s gets suspended sentence
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- 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
- The Met's Surrender of a Gilded Egyptian Coffin Presents a Golden Opportunity to Deter Antiquities Looting
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- 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
- "Hold on to your hat": Antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford, a/k/a “Pakpong Kriangsak”
- At least 120 pieces of papyri appear to be missing from the Egypt Exploration Society collection
- Carabinieri, EUROPOL , EUROJUST investigation, code named: "Achea"
- Recovered: Ring once owned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
- Culprits Identified in the theft at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Castiglion Fiorentino
- 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
- Blaming the Victim: The Shocking “Green Vault” Assault at Dresden’s Royal Palace (with video)
- Monkman Mischief: How Kent’s “Miss Chief Eagle Testickle” May Prank the Met
- Jayne Wrightsman’s “No Loans” Edict for Gifts & Bequests to the Metropolitan Museum
- Big Learning Curve for Sotheby’s New CEO in a Season of Lowered Expectations: My Q&As
- Discriminatingly Nondiscriminatory: MoMA Expands the Canon (but Leaves Out Native Americans)
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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