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- Almost 70% of smuggled objects seized in Syria and Lebanon are fakes, antiquities chief says
- What we learned from the Knoedler fakes scandal
- €200k worth of books stolen
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Protecting Cultural Heritage by Revising the Customs Entry Form
- One Side of the Coin: ACCG Re-Argues Previously Decided Legal Issues in Baltimore Test Case
- Shouldn't Art and Antiquities Sellers Be Subject to Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing Laws?
- Disturbing Evidence of Genocide and Heritage Destruction by ISIS Revealed at UN Congress
- [UPDATE: Bill Signed Into Law] Video: Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act Passes House
- Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
- Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
- David Gill’s Looting Matters
- Conflict Antiquities
- International Arts and Antiquities Security Forum (IAASF), Gateshead Quayside, 11th November 2016
- ISIS and the missing treasures, the missing treasures and ISIS?
- illicit antiquities – call for papers
- Of fingers and forgeries – illicit Palmyrene art
- Were these ‘Palmyrene statues’ ‘recently excavated’? At least one appears to be a forgery.
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- “Decorative Panels for the Garden” Since when has garden furniture been the code word for antiquities?
- Why you should go see the exhibition "L’Arma per l’Arte e la Legalità" if you are in Rome
- New Art Crime Book: Art Thieves, Fakers & Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story
- Ports Francs et Entrepôts de Genève SA addressing concerns about the trade in stolen antiquities
- Should there be immunity for stolen art? Info Call on Bill S.3155 - the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- 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
- Antiquities Under Siege recommendation made 8 years ago now being taken up
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
- Mock Trial : Greece vs UK – The Parthenon Sculptures - A moot court is being held at Monash University in Melbourne to discuss the issue
- Talk by Dr Tom Flynn on the Parthenon Sculptures - Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles: breaking the deadlock?
- Export bans – is Britain a cultural one way street? - Why do we feel other countries should share their culture, but then place bans on the export of our own
- Elginism is now on Instagram - An expanded social media presence
- Parthenon restoration focus shifts to west pediment - A new phase in the ongoing CCAM restoration of the Acropolis site in Athens
- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- “Polemical History Lesson”: Illustrated Companion to my WSJ Piece on the Brooklyn Museum’s American Rehang
- Adulated Adjaye: Acclaimed in DC, Under-the-Radar in NYC (with video) UPDATED
- Carmen Herrera, 101-Year-Old Overnight Success, Gets Her Whitney Close-Up (with video)
- From Private Delectation to Public Display: The Prado’s Once Hidden Nudes Flaunted at the Clark
- The “Scoop” that Wasn’t: Fisher Collection’s 75%-25% Rule at SFMOMA Exposed Six Years Ago (with Storify)
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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
Dallas Morning News: “A Page-Turner”
In a review published on Sunday, the Dallas Morning News calls Chasing Aphrodite “a fascinating look at the long-standing ‘institutional hypocrisy’ of the acquisition policy of major American Museums.” “Felch and Frammolino were relentless in their uncovering of the Getty’s … Continue reading
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