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- 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
- Mutiny on the Bounty: Marron Estate’s Rich Art Trove to Be Dispersed by Dealers, Not Auction Houses
- “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
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The Met’s Von Bothmer Collection May Be Evidence In Princeton Criminal Case
The dozens of vase fragments that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned to Italy last month came from the private collection of its former antiquities curator Dietrich von Bothmer. They were sent to Italy to be used as evidence in the possible … Continue reading
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
Chasing Aphrodite events in October: NYC, Philly, Princeton, Rutgers, Baltimore and more
Next month we’ll be heading East for several lectures and book events. Please help us spread the word: October 17th: Rutgers University. The university’s program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies (CHAPS) will host us for a talk about Chasing Aphrodite. Open … Continue reading
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Tagged AIA, antiquities, Chapman University, Events, Getty Museum, Getty Villa, Harvard Club, looting, National Arts Club, NYU, Penn Law, Penn Museum, Princeton University, Rutgers, SAFE, Walters Museum of Art
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
Chasing Aphrodite 2012: The Year in Review
Happy New Year from Chasing Aphrodite. It’s been a year and a half since our book was published, and during that time the hunt for looted antiquities at the world’s museums has gone global. Over the past 12 months we’ve … Continue reading
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
UPDATED: Kapoor’s Footprints: 240 Objects from Alleged Antiquities Trafficker Traced to Museums Around the Globe
[UPDATED 8/27 with details from SF Asian.] We’ve begun hearing back from museums that did business with Subhash Kapoor, the New York antiquities dealer under arrest in India for trafficking in looted antiquities. For those just catching up with the … 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 Year of Aphrodite: Book Launch Plus 365
One year ago, Chasing Aphrodite hit bookstores. The amazing success we’ve enjoyed over the past twelve months is humbling, and we thought it a good opportunity to thank you, our most dedicated fans. Thank you for everything you’ve done to … Continue reading
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