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Jan 12

The U.S. has renewed a cultural heritage agreement with China, despite brutal repression of Muslim, Buddhist and Christian religions in China. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalpropertylaw #china #foreignpolicy #culturalheritage #culturalproperty

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Jan 9

A major, multi-year investigation at the New York District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit has ended in chaos. At least eight of nine ‘ancient’ mosaics returned with great fanfare to Lebanon (with more on their way to Syria) were called ‘treasures,’ irreplaceable examples of the countries’ heritage worth millions of dollars – but they were fakes, modern copies of well-known, authentic mosaics.
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#culturalproperty #artlaw #culturalpropertylaw #internationallaw #antiquities

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Jan 8

Last month, a highly publicized return of 30 antiquities to the government of Greece included antiquities with over seventy-years history of lawful ownership, exhibition, and publication in the United States – and decades of before that in Europe. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalproperty #artlaw #greece #culturalpropertylaw

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Jan 2

In the latest Careful Collector installment, Peter K. Tompa takes a closer look at the State Department's relationships with various archaeological groups to help justify cultural property Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs).

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Dec 29

The Manhattan D.A.'s Office has claimed on more than one occasion that antiquities trafficking is a multi-billion-dollar business, despite evidence to the contrary. It's time for transparency from the D.A.'s office over antiquities - read the analysis by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalproperty #culturalpropertynews #antiquities #antiquitiesforum #artlaw #culturalpropertylaw

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Dec 26

In our latest installment of the Careful Collector series, learn how Mike Markowitz, Second Counsel for the Ancient Numismatic Society of Washington, D.C. and Vice President of the Fairfax Coin Club in Virginia, uses ancient Roman coins as teaching tools for kids. Link in bio.

#carefulcollector #culturalpropertynewsletter #culturalproperty #ancientcoins #numismatic

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Nov 30

In October, Director Wag Xudong announced that Beijing’s Palace Museum has digitized 900,000 objects, about half of its artifacts. Read more by clicking the link in our bio!

#culturalpropertynewsletter #culturalproperty #art #artlaw #china #digitization

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Nov 30

Earlier this fall, Spanish police arrested three Spaniards and two Ukrainians for attempting to sell eleven pieces of “ancient gold jewelry” worth 64 million euros that were allegedly taken from a Ukrainian church in 2016. However, the briefest glance at the pixelated images supplied by police shows that at least two of the items are loosely-based, very poorly executed copies of world-famous Scythian gold pectorals.

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#culturalpropertynews #culturalpropertynewsletter #artlaw #arttheft

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Nov 9

Capping a year in which there have been six seizures by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office from New York’s @metmuseum and in which numerous Italian and Egyptian artifacts have been returned by the museum, Director Max Hollein told foreign journalists on September 28th that the Met has developed new policies on identifying objects that left countries illegally.

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#culturalproperty #artlaw #museumlaw #culturalpropertynewsletter

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Nov 6

The UNSECO "Virtual Museum of Stolen Cult" project aims at designing the first virtual immersive reality museum of stolen cultural objects at a global scale. It hopes to contribute to raising awareness among general public to the consequences of illicit trafficking of cultural property and contribute to the recovery of stolen objects. The latest UNESCO update from Cultural Property News questions how accurately UNESCO will frame the museum’s narrative. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalpropertynews #culturalpropertynewsletter #unesco

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Nov 2

You may have heard about the recent theft scandal at the British Museum, where an estimated 2,000 artifacts have been stolen from the institution over the past few years.

In her latest post, Kate Fitz Gibbon argues that documentation is the best way to protect collections from theft or misuse.
And that despite these recent thefts, the @britishmuseum has done an outstanding job documenting their collection, with limited resources, digitizing more objects from its collection than the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in NY, or any museum in the world.

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#culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #britishmuseum

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Oct 31

South Korea’s High Court ruled on October 26, 2023 that a Buddhist statue stolen from the Kannonji temple in Japan in 2012 should be returned to it.

Korean temple leader disagrees, says 600 years is not enough to give Japan superior rights. Read more about the case by clicking the link in our bio.

#cuturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #Kannonjitemple #japan #korea

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Oct 31

An ancient bronze statue of man wearing a beautifully draped toga and sandals, headless, but still a figure of great power, is the focus of a rare challenge to the seizure powers of the New York County District Attorney. The statue, now known as the Philosopher, has rested at the Cleveland Museum of Art for 37 years and is valued today at approximately $20 million dollars. The statue remains at the museum, but it was “seized in place” by the New York DA under a warrant issued by a NY judge in August 2023.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has asked an Ohio court to declare that the museum is its rightful owner.

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#culturalproperty #clevelandmuseumofart #artlaw #NYDA

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Oct 31

Guest author Valentina Tarquini, an art consultant in Milan, Italy, writes about the recent statement issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture interpreting Article 72 of the Code of Cultural Heritage (Legislative Decree 42/2004).

Tarquini, who holds law and art management degrees from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, argues that the interpretation presents an unusual challenge to Italian authorities’ prevailing perspective, which holds that the Italian State’s claims to cultural heritage can supersede fundamental principles of citizens’ rights to private property.

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Oct 18

Earlier this month, contributing author Julian McBride wrote about the current humanitarian crisis unfolding in Karabakh, where over 100,000 Armenians have fled due to Azerbaijan’s military offensive. Not only are the lives of every Armenian in the region at risk, but the rich ancient history also risks destruction and forcible conversion.

Julian McBride is a forensic anthropologist, independent journalist, and former U.S. Marine. He writes on the catastrophic impact of conflict on individuals, communities, and their cultural heritage. McBride is the founder and director of the Reflections of War Initiative (ROW).

Read Julian's analysis by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalproperty #culturalpropertylaw #karabakh #armenians

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