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- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Cultural Property Lawyers Must Remain Alert to Antiquities Trafficking and Money Laundering
- 7 Questions You Have About the Manhattan DA’s Agreement with “A New York Antiquities Collector”
- Cultural Property Stakeholders Clash Over AML/CFT Regs for Antiquities Dealers
- 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?
- Cultural Property Lawyers Take Note: ABA Ethics Opinion Warns About Criminal Clients
- No “Seize and Send” in Prosecution Involving Mosaic Reportedly from Syria
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- You Don't Say.
- Looted Symes Objects Returned to Italy
- Looted Symes Objects Returned to Greece
- Stolen Head Returned to Torlonia Collection
- Bubbly Fields on Merovingian Coins: The 'Peckham Hoard'
- Gianfranco Adornato on Some Objects Repatriated From Dodgy US Market
- Crimean Coin Taken by Soviets from Museum Collection Sold for Record Price
- Physical Evidence of the 2014-2024 War in Ukraine
- Collectors and their Notorious Inability to Profit from Sharing Information
- Bakhmut Museum
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- 27 Objects Seized From the Met
- Smash and Smash at the Dallas Museum of Art
- Elizabeth Marlowe’s Review of ‘The Brutish Museum’
- The Terrific Pandora Papers Looted Art Article
- 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
- At least they left most of the art alone
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Sourcing Makron
- Fragments from a cup attributed to Makron
- Princeton Fragments from an Attic Cup
- Developments at Princeton
- Amphora fragment seized from Princeton
- Return of antiquities to Türkiye
- Bronze Hydria Returns to Greece
- Further returns to Greece
- UK Government and the Parthenon: Update
- A Roman fresco fragment and some apparent cut marks
- Conflict Antiquities
- propagandist fighter Maxim Fomin and the supply of metal detectors by artefact hunters for mine clearing by Russia’s forces in Ukraine
- Destructive Exploitation and care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management (DECOPE)
- a very low estimate of metal-detecting in the United Kingdom, according to the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- loot and forgeries from Eastern Europe on the market in Western Europe, regardless of Russia’s war on Ukraine
- artefact-hunting in drug plantations and by cannabis-cultivators in Ukraine (around 2014)
- attitudes to personal and public health precautions among artefact-hunters amid the Covid-19 pandemic
- human rights worker and anti-imperialist fighter Maksym Butkevych has been captured by Russia’s invading forces
- Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s cultural property is proof of its intent to commit genocide.
- Russia is subjecting cultural heritage workers and other civilians to the war crime of forced military labour.
- There is a market in Belarus for cultural property that has been stolen from Ukraine, pillaged by Russia’s soldiers and mercenaries.
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- The Amelia Conference - June 23-25, 2023 - Registration is now open
- Summer Course in Provenance Research, Theory and Practice
- 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference - Save the Date & Call for Presenters
- 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer
- Penelope Jackson The Art of Copying Art
- Burglars strike the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden
- A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador
- The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled not to drop the antiquities trafficking indictment against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier
- Ukraine very own, "Arsène Lupin" is sentenced to five years in French prison
- "Con il traffico di opere d'arte ci manteniamo la famiglia." Words from Cosa Nostra Boss Matteo Messina Denaro?
- 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?
- 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
- Imagine if Hobby Lobby had had to pay a Pigovian tax on the antiquities it purchased
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- A quick update
- Greek bid to reject Sotheby’s lawsuit over bronze horse rejected
- Parthenon Marbles to return due to Brexit mixup
- The man who’s grandfather’s art was looted by the Nazis
- Heirs of prior owner of Matisse’s Portrait of Greta Moll claim rebuffed
- Greece’s new Culture Minister
- LBC interview
- Talk in Brussels on Giovanni Battista Lusieri, Elgin’s agent in Athens
- Could Brexit present an opportunity to return the Parthenon Marbles?
- The continuing campaign for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
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UPDATED > USA vs One Ancient Mosaic: A Looted Syrian Masterpiece in Los Angeles
Rampant looting across Syria during its prolonged civil war has been well documented through satellite imagery and on the ground reports, but evidence that the looted antiquities are emerging in the Western art markets has, until recently, been scarce. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet Bostanci, Jaume Bagot, looting, Los Angeles, Mohaman Yassin Alcharihi, Mosaic, Soo Hoo Customs Brokers, Syria
The Sidon Bull’s Head: Court Record Documents a Journey Through the Illicit Antiquities Trade
The journey of an ancient sculpture of a bull’s head from its theft during the Lebanese civil war through the shadowy corners and winding pathways of the international antiquities black market. Continue reading
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Tagged Art Loss Register, Carlos Picon, Christies, Christos Tsirogiannis, Frieda Tchakos, Geneva Freeport, Hicham Aboutaam, Lebanon, Lynda and William Beierwaltes, Manhattan District Attorney, MAthew Bogdanos, Max Bernheimer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Steinhardt, Phoenix Ancient Art, Robin Symes, Sarkis Khoury, Sharon Cott, Sotheby's, Temple of Eshmun, Thomas Campbell
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
LA Times: “Antiquities issue rears head with Getty leaders Potts, Cuno in place”
Here is Jason’s article from Saturday’s LA Times on Timothy Potts’ views on the antiquities issues: Over the last five years, the J. Paul Getty Museum has earned a reputation as a leading reformer on a topic that has embroiled American museums … Continue reading
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