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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
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- 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
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- In 2018, “a chartered Tupolev-154 jetliner” reportedly flew from Kazakhstan to Switzerland, “loaded up” with “antiques, jewelry, works of art and other cargo”.
- 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
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Remembering the 30th Anniversary of the shelling of Dubrovnik
- After 130 years, what (limited) cultural property is finally going home to Benin
- Caveat Venditor takeaways during the guilty pleas of New York ancient art dealers
- 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?
- 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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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
Asia Week Raids: New Details on the Christie’s Seizures
This week, a series of five federal raids during New York’s Asia week led to the seizure of at least eight looted antiquities and the arrest of at least one dealer. This is the first of several posts that … Continue reading
Optical Due Diligence: Art Loss Register Claims To Vet Ancient Art. Does it?
UPDATE 8/9/14: The Sunday Times has published another devastating report on the Art Loss Register’s business practices. ALR Founder Julian Radcliffe admits paying thieves to recover stolen art in a dozen cases and is described as a “fence” by senior European … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquities, Art Loss Register, Bonhams, Carabinieri, Christies, David Gill, due diligence, Julian Radcliffe, Sotheby's, Subhash Kapoor
The Getty’s Looted Amber: A Window into the Museum’s Deepening Dilemma
In Saturday’s Los Angeles Times, I have a story about Getty Museum’s efforts to find the true origins of its massive antiquities collection. Here’s how the story starts: In the wake of a scandal over its acquisition of looted antiquities, … Continue reading
Tagged ancient amber, Arthur Houghton, Ascoli Satriano, Claire Lyons, Colin Renfrew, Faya Causey, Fritz Burki, Giacomo Medici, Gianfranco Becchina, Gordon McLendon, Head of Hades, J. Paul Getty Museum, James Cuno, Jiri Frel, looted antiquities, Marion True, Morgantina, Robert Hecht, Robin Symes, Tax fraud
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
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
Did Museum Officials Violate US Laws? Houghton on The McClain Doctrine and Crimes of Knowledge
Whenever we talk with Arthur Houghton — the Getty’s former antiquities curator who we’ll be on stage with this Saturday at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore — he asks a provocative question: did he or any other museum official violate … Continue reading
A Call from Robert Hecht: I’m Not a Squealer
Robert Hecht called the other day to say he’d received the copy of Chasing Aphrodite that we sent to his home on Boulevard La Tour Maubourg in Paris. Hecht is the American antiquities dealer who has dominated the trade for more … Continue reading
Loot at the Seattle Art Museum?
While in Seattle last month for a talk at Elliot Bay Bookstore, I stumbled across an interesting piece in the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection of ancient art: a marble Roman portrait head of the Emperor Claudius. Why interesting? Here’s the … Continue reading
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