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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- New Law Aims to Protect Lunar Artifacts
- Thai Cultural Property Case Edges Closer to Settlement
- Antiquities Trafficking Bathed in Sunshine: Disclosures of Shell Company Owners and Suspicious Financial Transactions May Be on the Horizon if the NDAA Becomes Law
- OFAC Puts High-Value Art Market Participants on Notice
- Brooklyn Man Indicted for Egyptian Artifact Smuggling. Did COVID-19 Impact Grand Jury Selection?
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- Italian Senate renews call for return of the ‘Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth’
- Psychics, Bowie knives, fake Alamo artifacts: New Book out today on how Texas can’t shake the Alamo
- Online Symposium on the Benin Bronzes Friday Apr. 9
- University of Aberdeen will repatriate a Benin bronze to Nigeria
- Art Museum intruders escaped by boat last night in Houston
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- Norway’s economic crime unit, Ministry of Culture, Cultural History Museum, National Library and University of Oslo are assisting Iraq in the pursuit of looted and illegally-exported antiquities
- organised crime in trafficking of cultural goods in Turkey and interconnections between antiquities trafficking and narcotics trafficking, arms trafficking and political violence
- It is not against the law, if no one can see you: Online social organisation of artefact-hunting in former Yugoslavia
- Treasure-hunters ‘even from Sweden’, organised criminals and ‘lawless’ police in the Eastern Mediterranean: Online social organisation of looting and trafficking of antiquities from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus
- Conflict antiquities’ rescue or ransom? The cost of buying back stolen cultural property in contexts of political violence.
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Three convictions and one acquittal, the number of museum thefts Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been charged with.
- How many bags of cocaine could a Monet buy?
- Norwegian police seize artefacts from the Martin Schøyen collection
- Six members of the Remmo family are formally indicted in Dresden for connection to the 2019 Grünes Gewölbe burglary
- New York Exhibition Review - Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
- 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
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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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