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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
Search Results for: RISD
Arnold Peter Weiss’ 46 donations to RISD Museum of Art
The Rhode Island School of Design has provided a complete list of donations made by former museum chairman Arnold Peter Weiss, the Providence doctor and collector of ancient coins who was arrested in New York last month for possession of … 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
Feds: Subhash Kapoor “one of the most prolific commodities smugglers in the world.”
Federal authorities announced this week that they have seized an estimated $100 million worth of ancient art linked to Subhash Kapoor, the New York art dealer currently facing trial in India — and an arrest warrant in the United States — … Continue reading
The Case of the Dodgy Drachmas: Arnold Peter Weiss, Prominent Rhode Island Surgeon, Pleads Guilty; “Looted” Coins Prove Forgeries.
Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, a prominent Rhode Island hand surgeon and dealer in ancient coins, pleaded guilty in New York City Tuesday to three counts of attempted criminal possession of ancient coins he believed had been recently looted from Italy. … 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
Federal Investigators Behind Criminal Case Against Coin Dealer Arnold Peter Weiss
[See below for updates.] Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, the Rhode Island doctor arrested in New York City on Jan. 3 for allegedly trying to sell a looted ancient coin, had his first court appearance in a Manhattan criminal court on … Continue reading
Arnold-Peter Weiss and the Rhode Island School of Design
*UPDATED: See below for additional information from RISD and Harvard Art Museums. Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, the Rhode Island coin collector arrested Jan. 3 for felony possession of an ancient coin that authorities say he knew was recently looted from Sicily, … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: NYC DA Says Prominent Surgeon Knew He Was Selling Looted Coin
A prominent Rhode Island surgeon and collector of ancient coins was arrested on January 3rd in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for felony possession of an ancient coin recently looted from Sicily. Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, a world-renowned hand surgeon … Continue reading
Looted Antiquities at American Museums: An On-Going Crime, law professor argues
In January 2008, more than one hundred federal agents raided four Southern California museums. They seized scores of Southeast Asian antiquities that investigators said had been looted and illegally smuggled into Los Angeles before being donated at inflated values to … Continue reading
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