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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Brooklyn Man Indicted for Egyptian Artifact Smuggling. Did COVID-19 Impact Grand Jury Selection?
- No "Seize and Send" in Prosecution Involving Mosaic Reportedly from Syria
- 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
- 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
- The sentencing of Congolese Activists Reignites the Sensitive Conversation of Colonial-Era Art Restitution
- 5 looters have been arrested in Pella, Greece for conducting a clandestine excavation
- Regulatory Comparison: How is the 19th century merchant shipping scene similar to today's ancient art market.
- Rare Books in an Even Rarer Recovery
- Two Arrested for Robbery and Vandalism at Church of Sant’Agata al Collegio in Sicily
- 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
- “Central to the Museum’s Collection”: Arnold Lehman Blasts the Baltimore Deaccessions
- Baltimore Museum Gets a Formal Letter Calling for a Halt to Planned Sales; Ex-Director Lehman Piles On
- The Battle of Baltimore: Former Museum Trustees Strike Back in the Deaccession Wars
- Deplorable in Baltimore: Careening Down the Slippery Slope of Collection Monetization
- Philip Guston Bluster: Why It’s Wise to Postpone a Show Depicting Cartoonish Ku Klux Klan Figures
Search Results for: Jiri Frel
Jiri Frel: Scholar, Refugee, Curator…Spy?
In the early 1980s, the antiquities department at the J. Paul Getty Museum was a hotbed of whispered political intrigue. Rumors swirled that the department’s Czech curator, Jiri Frel, was a Communist spy. And many believed the deputy curator, former … Continue reading
The Danish Connection: Holding on to Loot at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotech of Copenhagen
UPDATE 7/5/16: After years of stonewalling, the Ny Carlsburg Glyptotek has agreed to return hundreds of looted antiquities to Italy. In a joint announcement released July 5, 2016, Italy and the Danish museum said they had reached an agreement for … Continue reading
Decoding Eakin: Behind ‘Extortion’ Claim, Fear the Floodgates Have Opened
It is no coincidence that The Great Giveback, Hugh Eakin’s lengthy argument against the repatriation of looted antiquities, landed in The New York Times on Sunday, just as the directors of America’s leading art museums gathered in Kansas City for their annual meeting. … Continue reading
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Tagged AAMD, Arthur Houghton, Association of Art Museum Directors, Cleveland Museum, Cornelius Vermeule, Dietrich von Bothmer, Giacamo Medici, Harold Williams, Hugh Eakin, J. Paul Getty Museum, Jim Cuno, Jiri Frel, John Walsh, looted antiquities, Philippe de Montebello, repatriation, Robert Hecht, The Great Giveback, Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Robert E. Hecht Jr., leading antiquities dealer over five decades, dead at 92.
Bob Hecht died quietly at home in Paris at about noon on Wednesday, according to his wife Elizabeth. He was 92 years old. Here’s my obituary in the LA Times. When Robert E. Hecht Jr. arrived at the loading platform of the Metropolitan … Continue reading
Arnold Peter Weiss’ Coin Partner and The Getty Connection
A surprising detail emerged while we were reading about Nomos AG, the Swiss coin dealership whose principal, Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, was arrested on January 3 for felony possession of an ancient coin allegedly looted recently in Sicily. One of Weiss’ … Continue reading
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Tagged American Numismatic Society, antiquities, Arnold-Peter Weiss, Arthur Houghton, Bruce McNall, classical numismatic group, CNG, Cultural Property Advisory Commitee, Eric McFadden, Getty Museum, illicit antiquities, Italy, Jiri Frel, Nomos AG, Numismatic Fine Arts, numismatics, Robert E Hecht
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
Hot Doc: A Damage Assessment at the Getty Finds Forgery, Fraud and Fabricated Histories
The true cost of looting has always been hard to measure: how does one account for what is lost? Perhaps this is why some — Americans in particular, it seems — tend to think of looting as a victimless crime. … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, Arthur Houghton, forgery, Getty Museum, Hot Docs, illicit antiquities, IRS, Jiri Frel, John Walsh, Kouros, looting, provenance, Skopas
Getty Museum Returns Two Objects to Greece, Signs Collaboration Deal
The Getty Museum agreed on Tuesday to return two antiquities to Greece and formalized a broad cultural agreement that will lead to loans, joint research and other collaboration with the art-rich Hellenic Republic. The agreement mirrors similar deals struck with … Continue reading
Cast: The Getty
J. Paul Getty GETTY: He was the world’s richest man: oil tycoon, hypochondriac, philanderer and penny pincher — except when it came to his addiction to art. Late in life he found himself alone, and looked to his mediocre art … Continue reading
Forgery, Bribes and Tax Fraud: Excerpt in Los Angeles Times Magazine
Years before Marion True became antiquities curator at the Getty, her predecessor Jiri Frel orchestrated one of the most elaborate tax frauds in American museum history. At its center was the donation of recently looted antiquities at inflated values. To … Continue reading
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