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CCP & GHA Response to Morocco’s Request to Restrict U.S. Access to Antiquities and Ethnological Art

CCP & GHA Response to Morocco’s Request to Restrict U.S. Access to Antiquities and Ethnological Art

Vietnam’s Request for Cultural Property Agreement Stretching from 1945 to 77,000 years ago

Testimony on the Republic of Italy’s 25th Year Request for U.S. Import Restrictions

Cleveland Museum’s High-Tech Sleuthing Identifies Bubon Statue

Trump’s Tariffs and the Art Market

What Happens When Precious Newari Paintings Go to Kathmandu?

Colgate University Voluntarily Returns 895 Mesoamerican Artifacts to Mexico

Earliest Evidence of Human Transportation by Travois Found in NM White Sands National Park

Looting and Destruction of Sudan National Museum

Opinion: It’s Time to Make Collecting Great Again!

Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services Gutted

Careful Collector No. 35 – Days Gone By: When You Could Purchase US, Foreign, and Ancient Coins at Your Local Department Store

Chile Requests Five Year Extension of U.S. Import Restrictions

More Bricks in Wall Against Art: Vietnam Import Ban Sought

Denmark Michelangelo Exhibition: Another Side of Art Reproduction

Buying Greenland: Strategic Interests, Viking Myths, Archaeology and Project Iceworm

Papuan Tribes Refuse Return of Ritual Skulls, Citing Curses and Loss of Relevance

John Gilmore Ford (1928–2024) A Life Devoted to Art, Preservation, and Public Access

Careful Collector 34: What the Second Trump Administration Might Mean for Collectors

Cultural Cookbook 4: Heirloom Desserts from Hazel’s Berkeley Kitchen

Cultural Cookbook 3: Papuan and East Asian Medley

Cultural Cookbook 1: Recipes from Roving Writers

Cultural Cookbook 2: Dastarkhan from Afghanistan

Factum Foundation and Selene Project Are Revolutionizing Digital Documentation

Prosecutorial Overreach or Ethical Reckoning? The Manhattan DA’s Latest Campaign Against Almagià and Princeton

Careful Collector No. 33: Angie Funds Her Hoard

Cultural Property News 2023-2024 Report

UK: Reparations and Repatriation at ‘Reckoning with History’

Careful Collector No. 32 – What the Heck is It?

Museum of the Bible Exhibition Unveils Afghan Liturgical Quire

Brazil Opens Two Indigenous Museums

Tens of thousands of artifacts looted from Sudan National Museum

Ukraine – Russians steal ancient statues from Mariupol, looted artwork spotted in Crimea, Customs seizes medieval sabers.

Netherlands to Indonesia – Objects Taken in Puputan Badung War Returned

Afghanistan: Taliban Ban Images of ‘Living Things’ & Promise to Preserve Ancient Buddhist Site By Digging Copper Mine Under It

Off-Road Racing Destroys Chilean Geoglyphs While AI Enables Hundreds of New Finds in Peru

UK’s National Museum Directors’ Council Issues Open Letter on Museum Protests

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Hearing to Restitution Study Group on Benin Bronzes

Careful Collector No. 31 – It’s the Political Season So Why Not Collect Political Memorabilia?

CPAC Hearing Ignores Realities in Lebanon, Mongolia, and El Salvador

El Salvador Seeks MOU Renewal Despite 37 Year History of Import Restrictions, Corruption, and Government Neglect

Lebanon in Chaos: Will US Sign Heritage Agreement?

The Internet’s Favorite Sumerian

China 2024: The Smothered Screams of Muslim Genocide

Elizabeth Weiss & the New Archaeology Wars

Careful Collector #30: Sending Art and Antiquities to Failed States No Recipe for Preservation

ATADA Award Goes to Robert Gallegos, Founder of Voluntary Returns Program

Neolithic News: Stonehenge Tunnel Plan Terminated

Moundbuilders Golf Course Now Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks

UK’s Horniman Museum Benin Repatriation Re-examined

Careful Collector No. 29 – Importing Antiquities, Art and Collectibles into the EU Becoming Far More Challenging

Italy: Excess Art to Colossal Naples Museum – Carabinieri Revel in Seizure of 105,000 Artifacts

A Closer Look at the Portable Antiquities Scheme

World’s Oldest Shipwreck Discovered in Mediterranean

Berlin’s Altes Museum Returns Collection of Apulian Vases

Careful Collector No. 28 – Liberated Art Returns Home

Ukraine Requests 1.4 Million Years’ Import Restrictions on Art

Commentary: Problems of Universal Art

Ecuador: Turmoil, Neglect, and a History of Legal Looting

Careful Collector #27 – It Came from Outer Space

Dirty Details: British Museum Presses Case Against Former Curator Peter Higgs

A Fungus Among Us at Persepolis & Pyramid Cladding at Menkaure Abandoned

WMF Turns Over Angkor Wat to APSARA Despite Human Rights Concerns Over Government Control

Greek Ceramics Pulled from Auction Show That Archives Should Be Made Public

Met Museum Aims at Cultural Reconciliation in Returning Treasures to Thailand

Careful Collector #26 – The Benefits of Dealing with Established Trade Associations

Betrayal of Tibet: DA’s Controversial Returns to China

Congressman Joe Wilson Demands Investigation into State Department’s Cultural Policy Missteps

In and Out Artworks – Sculptures from America’s Greatest Collections in Flux

Careful Collector No. 25 – Third Party Grading Services and Slabs: Good for Collecting or Not?

Afghanistan Sites Demolished by Bulldozers

NY’s Rubin Museum Transitions to ‘Museum Without Walls’

Europe: Alarming Future of the Art, Antiquity and Archaeology Market

Ethiopian Shield from 1868 Battle of Maqdala Withdrawn from Auction

Souvenir Costs French Tourist 8 Days in Luxor Jail

2024 India Report: U.S. Art Blockade Inevitable Despite Destruction and Neglect

Careful Collector No. 24 – William Penn Still Stands Tall in Philadelphia

Commentary: Renewal of Algerian MOU

The New NAGPRA: ‘traditional knowledge’ in, artifacts out.

Careful Collector No. 23 – Are Warranties Worth Anything?

China Doubles Down to Crush Islamic Culture and Identity

At Great Expense, Manhattan DA Returns Fakes to Lebanon

Did NY Asst. DA Bogdanos Return a Legally Owned Object to Greece?

Careful Collector No. 22 – Your Tax Dollars at Work

Law? What law? CPAC Ignores Statute in New ‘Evidence Free’ MOU with India

Why Is The Manhattan D.A.’S Office Publishing Data It Knows To Be Untrue?

Careful Collector No. 21 – Ancient Coins as Teaching Tools for Kids

Oct-Sept 2023 Short Reads: Met Museum Returns, China Goes Digital, Michael Ward Accepts Plea, and Spurious Scythians Seized in Spain

UNESCO Update: Stamping Out Cat Juggling Again?

The British Museum is still the greatest museum in the world.

Korea’s Supreme Court Resolves Decade-long Dispute Over Stolen Buddhist Statue

Cleveland Museum of Art Fights Back Against NY DA’s Seizure of Famous Bronze Statue

Legal Head of Italian Culture Ministry: ‘Fiendishly extensive’ proofs bar imports.

Careful Collector No. 20 – Why Is Our Government Recognizing the Rights of Authoritarian Governments to Cultural Heritage of Displaced Religious and Ethnic Minorities?

Armenians Racing to Save Heritage in Karabakh

Careful Collector No. 19 – The Life and Times of Trail-Blazing Antiquities Dealer Leo Patterson

Misuse of U.S. Heritage Law: State Department Seeks Blockade on Nepalese Art

U.S. Signs MOU with Yemen. This Time, No Testimony Allowed.

Egypt’s Jewish Restoration Projects: Seized Geniza Still Missing

Return of Benin Bronzes: Why are the victims of slavery hushed up?

Cairo’s Historic Cemeteries: Erasing the Dead Past

Honduras Wants Import Restrictions After 20 Years Noncompliance With U.S. Law

Alice Kandell Gives Major Collection of Tibetan Art to Minneapolis

Careful Collector No. 18 – Resetting the Collecting Narrative

The Myth of the “recovery” of Argentina’s Act of the Declaration of Independence

Careful Collector No. 17 – ATADA Voluntary Returns Program for Native American Artifacts

Benin Bronzes Lawsuit Against Smithsonian: Deadria Farmer-Paellmann & Bruce Afran Interview

Careful Collector No. 16 – Let it Snow in a Globe – Paige’s Accumulation Becomes a Collection

Israel Asks Citizens to Turn In Antiquities – Archaeologists Ask to Stop Excavations

Hong Kong: Laws Imperil Culture From Art to Anthems

Pop Music Against Oppression

Controversy Roils “Disturbingly Informative” Mütter Museum

China Seeks Cultural Protection But Nixes US UNESCO Membership

EU Action Plan Replays Bogus Claims About Art Market

Law Note: UK Ivory Act Expanded

Art Moves: Kogi Sacred Masks Go from Germany to Colombia

Art Moves: Three Vatican Parthenon Fragments go to Greek Archbishopric, then Acropolis Museum

Law Note: Netherlands Court Rules Crimean Gold Must Go To Ukraine

Voices Pro & Con at CPAC on China and Bulgaria MOUs

Careful Collector No. 15 – World Culture Cop

Is the EU sleepwalking into an art market nightmare?

SPECIAL REPORT: 2023 CHINA MOU – Building China’s Art Monopoly and Destroying Minority Culture and Identity

Careful Collector No. 14: A Collecting Bubble That Burst

Repatriation of Brutus Aureus Highlights Dangers of Overzealous NY DA’s Office to Ancient Coin Collecting

Nigeria Gives Benin Ruler Exclusive Ownership of Bronzes

Can Taliban be Trusted to Preserve Afghan Heritage?

In Defense of David

Careful Collector No. 13: New Collectors from Abroad

Young historian finds medieval gold treasure in the Netherlands

Turkey Loses Guennol Stargazer Appeal. Statue Will Go to Christie’s and Steinhardt.

EU: Death Comes to the Vatican Canon, Rome Archeological Exhibit, Ali Aboutaam Fined after 6 Year Investigation

US Museum News: Brauer Controversial Deaccession & Frankenthaler Grants for Clean Energy

Careful Collector No.12: NFTs- Flash in the Pan or Here to Stay?

State Dept Renews Blockade on Libyan Art, Ignoring Law and Facts

Will U.S. Sign Uzbekistan Art Embargo 50,000 BC to 1917?

Careful Collector No. 11: Orders and Decorations: Can Symbols of Valor be Bought and Sold?

CPAC Report: Coin Collectors Face More Collateral Damage

Cambodia and “Stone Temple Nationalism”

NAGPRA: Major Changes Proposed for 2023 to Native American Repatriation Law

Careful Collector No. 10: The Lifecycle of Collectibles: Different Generations Often Value Different Things

Committee for Cultural Policy 2022 Annual Report

168 Nazca Lines, 35K Syrian Antiquities, No More Golf at Moundbuilder Site and Pompeii’s Sheep are Baaaaack

US Plans Agreements to Block Art from Uzbekistan, Cambodia and North Macedonia

Careful Collector No. 9: Will my African Art be repatriated as reparations for the Colonialist past?

STOP Act Passes: First law restricting export of American art

Comments on UNESCO’s Draft Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

UNESCO Model Provisions Could End Most Global Trade

Putin Using Martial Law to Legitimate Ukraine Art Looting

Moai on Easter Island Damaged in Arson Fire

The Llullaillaco Mummies

The Careful Collector: What to Do with Your Ivory Keyed Piano?

Restitution Study Group Unable to Stop Smithsonian’s Benin Returns

Where will Benin bronzes go? Nigerian government, Edo Museum or Oba?

Caucasus Heritage Watch: Azerbaijan is Destroying Armenian Heritage

ICOM Condemns Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Heritage

Repatriations: Getty Sirens, Cambodian Sculptures, Jewish Coin, Nepal Stele

The Careful Collector – Why does a French auction house want to know so much about me?

UK Charity Act Opens Door to Restitutions

J’accuse! Georges Lotfi’s Dramatic Open Letter to Bogdanos’ Antiquities Trafficking Unit

Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Masterpieces

The Careful Collector: What’s it Worth? Friends Find Value in Family Heirlooms

Russia’s War Against Ukrainian Culture

The Careful Collector- Fakes and Alterations: Hana Hunts for Vintage Uke with Few Strings Attached

Shorts: Briton in Iraq Released – Yale Gives Up Indian Artifacts – Jewish Manuscript Rescued – Gentileschi Seized

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche

Libyan Jewish Community Fights for Rights to Heritage

Will US Renew Libyan Art Embargo During Civil War?

The Careful Collector: Great Catsby is Life of the Party

Turkey – Hagia Sophia Suffers Serious Damage: Walls Peeled and Marble Tiles Shattered

5 Native Nations Will Manage Bears Ears with Feds

The Careful Collector: Not as Rare as You Might Think!

Only in New Mexico: The Hermit of Hermit’s Peak and a Jewish Tribal Chief

Belgian Blunder: Government Sells Stolen Ife Head for €240

Sacre bleu! Former Louvre president charged in antiquities trafficking case.

Commentary: Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq – The sectarian appropriation of Iraq’s past

Losing the Parthenon Marbles: History, Passion, and Possession

U.S. Weighs Questionable Cultural Property Agreement with Pakistan

The Careful Collector: The Riddle of the Native American Eagle Headdress

Mes Aynak: Dark Days for Afghanistan’s Buddhist Heritage

The Careful Collector: Don’t Import Buyer’s Remorse

“Who ordered the borscht?” When a State Steals Culture, Others Pay the Bill.

Egypt’s Antiquities Authority Seizes Geniza from Jewish Cemetery

EU Parliament Resolution Condemns Azerbaijan’s Erasure of Armenian History

CINOA-Art Market Demands Fundamental Review of Law Making

Mali Government Wants U.S. Blockade on Art as Russian Mercenaries Secure Regime

Bamiyan: What Lasted for 1500 Years Will be Gone in Ten

U.S. Treasury Report: Key Findings on Money Laundering and Terror Finance in Art Trade

Citizen Activists Want Nepalese Art Back

Vance Caps Career: Steinhardt Gives Up $70 Million in Antiquities

2021 Cultural Agreements Deny Access to Art

The Lost World of Eastern Turkestan: A Photographic Journey to the Past

Whistleblower Fired: UN Human Rights Council Gave Dissidents’ Names to China

Uyghur Human and Cultural Rights: Forced Labor Prevention Act and Shocking Holocaust Museum Report

Gold Ewer with Hollywood History Delivered to Turkey

Roman Busts Found & 45,000 Skeletons Reburied in UK Rail Project

‘Picture Cave’ Site of Ancient Native Pictographs Auctioned

Mexico Establishes Agency to Seek Antiquities on Carabinieri Model

Nation-Building with Archaeology: Iraq, Syria and Libya

CENSORED: Cartoons and Ancient Conquerors in China

Dutch Court: Scythian Gold from Crimea Should Go to Ukraine

Trade Delivers Reality Check to Money Laundering Regulators

Germany Funds €600,000 NEXUD AI App for Antiquities

Lebanon, Abomey, Bishop Aukland, and Afghanistan

Peru Asks to Extend 25 Year Long Art Blockade

Art Market Organizations Stand Together Against Illicit Trade

The Real Looting of Afghanistan: Pit Mining vs Heritage

Afghanistan’s 4000 Years of Cross-Border Empires and Trade

The Evolution and Deconstruction of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage Laws

Afghanistan’s Heritage: A Former Government, the Taliban, and a Questionable Blockade

Afghanistan Ethnographic Art: Turkoman Embroidery

Coins of Afghanistan – Documenting History and Trade

Pashtunwali: Pashtun Traditional Tribal Law in Afghanistan

International Criminal Court: Cultural Heritage & Genocide

UNESCO Threatens Stonehenge with At-Risk Status

Future UK Ban on Hippo, Narwhal, Whale, and Walrus Ivories?

The Strange History of the Torlonia Marbles

A Tale of Two Seizures: The Carabinieri TPC

Around the Mediterranean: discoveries, ancient economies and national politics

Turkish MoU Will Devastate Minorities, Bolster Erdoğan Regime

Archaeological Discovery Points to Long-lost Settlement of Sarabay in Florida

Bulldozing Culture: China’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Heritage Reveals Genocidal Intent

Interview: Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on Preserving the Bakor Monoliths

Golf vs Ancient Earthworks: Moundbuilders Country Club Case Comes to the ‘Fore’

Thefts, Fakes, and Facsimiles: Preserving the Bakor Monoliths of Eastern Nigeria

Sisi’s Parade of Absolute Rulers – Celebration of Autocracy Opens Egyptian Museum

CircArt and the British Museum – A great opportunity wasted.

Controversial Bill on Export of Native American Art Before Congress

April May 2021 Repatriation Digest

Setback for Planned Mega-Resort and Amusement Park at Angkor Wat

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 1

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 2

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 3

Critical Comments Rain Down on Draft EU Regulations

MOU Backstory: How Cultural Property Agreements with Authoritarian Middle Eastern Governments are Made

Brucemore: Directing Crisis Recovery of an Historic Home and Landscape

Is ICE Writing Its Own Laws? The Curious Case of the Chandler Museum

Old Salem Museums & Gardens: How a Living Museum in the South Addresses the History of Slavery

NETCHER Project: 194 Recommendations Locked in Unreality

CINOA Report Blasts False Information on Art Trade

Argam Ayvazyan: Spy–Researcher For Nakhichevan Armenian Culture

Albania Wants US Art Embargo But Where is the Art?

Egypt’s Brutal Regime Wants to Renew US Blockade on Art; Claims to Protect Heritage & Culture

Art and Abolition: Art Objects and the Rejection of Slavery

Turkish MOU: Last Minute State Department Deal Sparks Outrage

US Renews Italy’s Quarter-Century Art Embargo – New Morocco MOU Blocks Ancient and Ethnographic Art

UK Not Adopting EU Art and Antiquities Import Rules

The Museum of the Bible: Repatriations, investigations, thefts, and fakes dog DC institution.

Armenian Monuments Threatened After Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh War

Nigeria Welcomes Future Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)

UNESCO Appoints Syria Trust for Development to Heritage Post

Bungling Smugglers: Egypt Seeks Extradition after Trial in Absentia of Former Consul

Anti-Money Laundering Law Goes After Antiquities Trade

Our World Heritage’s Full Year of Events: Rethinking the World Heritage Convention

Bad DIY Idea: Egyptians Digging for Antiquities in Own Homes

CCP/CPN 2020 Year End Report

Major Lilly Endowment Grants to U.S. Museums Center on Religion and Art

UNESCO Marks Convention’s 50th Anniversary with Doctored Photos and Disinformation

Humboldt Forum Collaboration with Tanzania

‘Cute Repatriation’ Prank Brings Fake Beuys Sculpture to Tanzania

Forget history. There is no Genghis Khan.

Berlin’s Museuminsel in the Wake of Vandalism

Hypothetical Hopes for Healing Through Art

Turkey Seizes Ancient Seed Collection in Nationalist Move

Nigeria: Support Cultural Expansion, Not Art Blockade

Gary Vikan: The Holy Shroud, A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death

Elias Gerasoulis: A geo-political perspective on the Turkish MoU

August & September: Six Short Stories on Museums, Art and Culture

WCO Reports: Heritage Trafficking Tiny Percentage of Illegal Trade

Cowan’s Auctions Returns Zuni War God to Tribe

Istanbul’s Last Church-Mosque-Museum

Interview with Robert G. Ousterhout: The Preservation and Reconversion of Kariye Camii

Cranach to Corot: AAMD Moratorium Lets Brooklyn Sell Art

State Department to Hear Requests for Import Restrictions on Nigerian, Greek, and Bolivian Art

Rio Tinto: How Australian Law Tolerates Heritage Destruction

China Tariffs Come Back for Real in 2020

Coalition Opposes Cultural Property Requests by Repressive Governments

Smashing Buddhas in Pakistan: Rural Ignorance and Museum Indifference

RAND Corp Report Demolishes Assumptions on Antiquities and Terror

Senate Committee Approves Bill that will Block Native Art Exports

RAND Corporation Report Debunks Facebook & Dark Web Ties to Illegal Antiquities

Reclaiming Tibetan Culture in the Digital Age

New Publication: Ivory 2020 Art and Heritage Law

Hagia Sophia No Longer a Museum: US Should Deny Turkey’s Request for Blockade on Art

Italy Wants 20 Year Art Blockade Expanded to 2025

Turkish Court Decides Hagia Sophia’s Conversion to Mosque

Apsáalooke Women and Warriors in Chicago

Ancient and Ethnographic Art from Colombia Faces Another 5-Year Ban

Rediscovering Old Provenances for Ancient Coins

Citizenship Project – How NY Historical Society Museum Helps Immigrants

St John Simpson Interview: Afghanistan repatriation, Daesh, remote-archaeology and the ILLICID report

Brent Huffman: Mes Aynak Update

Afghanistan 1975 – Before War – Photographs by Françoise Foliot

Arts Council England: Guidelines for Museum Repatriation

Chaco Cultural Region: Public Comment on Management Plan

Virtual Coin Experience: Numismatic Museums and Discovery Databases

The Interview: Adam Lowe of Factum Arte

Hartwig Fischer: Collections entail responsibilities. Notes on a global institution.

Visit Sacred Spaces through Virtual Travel

Costa Rica Seeks U.S. Import Restrictions on Art

Elizabeth S. Bolman: Images from the Red Monastery Church

CCP/CPN 2019 End of Year Report

Tohono O’odham Nation: U.S. Blasts a Monument to Build a Wall

Scholar Identifies Missing Indian Statue in Ashmolean Collection

Elizabeth Bolman Interview: The Red Monastery Church

US Customs Delivers 7 “National Treasure” Coins Worth $200 to Cyprus

Hong Kong Artists’ Political Protests Continue

How Jordanian Import Restrictions Really Happened

Collaborative Exhibit at LACMA – Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific

Five Reasons NOT to Sign Cultural Property Deals with Turkey and Tunisia

Iran or China – Cultural Rights are Human Rights

CINOA: Trump’s Threat to Attack Cultural Sites Raises Broader Questions

Turkey Claims all Art and Artifacts: Centuries of Multicultural History and Trade Denied

CCP & GHA Testify on Blockade on All Art from Tunisia

Turkish Request Alarms Armenians, Greeks, Turkish Jews, Orthodox and Syriac Christians in Diaspora

Controversy: How US Recognizes Middle East Government Ownership of Jewish & Minority Heritage

What’s Next for 2020? Art Blockades, Money Laundering Rules, OFAC Sanctions

What Remains – Ancient Artworks Travel, Inspire, and Survive

End of Year: Federal Management Plans Threaten Bears Ears/Chaco

Safani Gallery of NY Files Lawsuit to Recover “Head of Alexander”

Successful Repatriation: The Utimut Process in Denmark & Greenland

Scandiknavery! Fakes, Fantasy, the Cold War and Cultural Histories

Bill Requiring Antiquities Dealers to Report Transactions Passes House – Expansion to All Art Trade Urged

CCP & GHA Testimony on Yemen’s Request for Cultural Property Restrictions

Morocco Seeks US Import Restrictions on Ancient & Ethnic Art

Jewish community issues urgent call on proposal to Block Yemeni and Moroccan heritage

Uzbekistan Leads the Way in International Collaboration on Cultural Heritage

John Gilmore Ford: Portrait of a Collector

Notorious: Indian Prosecutions and Foreign Repatriation

Never Seen Again? Indian Artifacts in Icon Centers Left to Rot

Turkey: Ilisu Dam Inundates 12,000 Year Old Town in Kurdish Region

The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 1

The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 2

US State Department Imposes Embargo on Algerian Cultural Artifacts, Including Rope!

Leonard Cohen, Anyone? Reporting on Illicit ‘Cultural Objects’ is Deceptive

UK Gov’t Query: Is Ban on Warthog, Hippo, Walrus, Whale and Narwhal Necessary?

Chaco Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears Roundup

2019 STOP Act: Fixing a Flawed Indian Art Bill

Was ILLICID Report ‘Buried’ For Failing to Show Illegal Trade?

Click Here to Enter Nirvana

The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts

EU Regulation Curtailing Import of Art & Antiquities Now Law

Turkey’s President Wants to Turn Hagia Sophia into a Mosque

African Voices: Muhigirwa Kinyunyi Claude of LUCHA Movement for Change

The Security State and Destruction of Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang

Montana Bill on Indian Cultural Patrimony Fails

Exhibitions and Demonstrations: How Art Museums Connect to the Community

Not Again! 25% Tariff on Chinese Antiques Pending

Expanding the Protecting U.S. Heritage Abroad Act

NAGPRA in Hawaii: Museum and Native Hawaiian Conflicts

Chile’s Application for Import Restrictions to CPAC – Testimony

Testimony to CPAC on Jordan’s Application for Import Restrictions

Asian Studies Association Condemns China’s Incarceration of Turkic Muslims

UNESCO Exposed!

EU 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive Program Notes

Germany Offers $2.17 Million for Ethnographic Provenance Research

Egypt Rejects Accessible Database of Art in Circulation

Discovery at Abydos Shines Light on 19th-20th C Egyptology

EU Parliament Holocaust Restitution Proposal Threatens Circulation of Ancient Art

A Central Asian Cinderella – The Tale of Bibi Seshambe

Bodleian Libraries Oxford Exhibition on Translation Highlights Cross-Cultural Communication

Brazil:: A New President Persecutes the Arts

Superb Rubin Museum Exhibition “Faith and Empire-Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism”

Chaco Canyon Update: One Year Later

Saudis Bomb Heritage Sites-Art Trade Blamed

UK to Change Treasure Act – New Restrictions Proposed

Savoy-Sarr Report on African Art Restitution: A Summary

Crow Museum of Asian Art Collection Donated to University of Texas

Polyresin Indian Gods Made-in-China

Australia Liberalizes Export Laws for Indigenous Art & Antiques

Committee for Cultural Policy 2018 Year-End Report

Italian Court Orders Getty to Return Bronze ‘Victorious Youth’ After Over 40 years

Art Imports to EU Threatened by Draconian Regulation

French Proposal for Restitution of African Art

18 Jewish Organizations Protest MENA Nationalization of Heritage to State Department

Is NAGPRA Irretrievably Broken?

ACCG Seeks Supreme Court Review in Coin Case

A Primer: NAGPRA, ARPA, and the Antiquities Act

2018 RECAP: Dumping Bears Ears Trumps Tribal Consensus

Uncertain Future for Golden Statue Holding Buddhist Mummy

AAIA Challenges Private Ownership of Native American Art

Egypt Demands Review of TEFAF Artworks

National Stolen Property Act: Primary US Cultural Property Law

Mwatana for Human Rights: Destruction of Yemen’s History

Benin Dialog Group: Building and Filling a New Museum in Benin

Are We in for a Flood of “Sleeper” Claims?

Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Trips… over the Truth

Nabu Museum Opens in Lebanon

Bill Introduced to Regulate Export of U.S. Tribal Art

Devotion and Decadence: at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Rockefeller Gifts Bring Indian Art Home to Southwest

An Epic Battle: U.S. v. 3 Knife-Shaped Coins

“Plundered” Artifacts from Aged Missionary’s Collection Go to Colombia

Culture and Fashion: Betrayal is the New Black

UK Law Would Deputize “Ivory Hunters” to Search and Seize

Chinese Art Heists: Purloined Treasures

Rapa Nui Claims British Museum’s Moai Sculpture

Chinese Art and Antiques Dropped from US Tariff List

A Culture Destroyed: China Expunges Uyghur Identity

Mes Aynak: Corruption, Copper and a Nation’s Heritage

No Country for Old Achaemenids

Will Iraqi Jewish Heritage Stay in US?

Nigeria: Kano’s Walls Will Disappear

Update: Up to 25% Tariffs on Chinese Art Will Expand China’s Monopoly

We Don’t Need No Algerian Blockade

Bulgaria and Honduras Import Restrictions Coming Before CPAC

New Import Requirements for Ancient & Ethnographic Art

Mexico: Art in the Time of Restrictive Export Laws

Westminster Abbey Repatriation Claim From Ethiopia

‘Traffic’ Says UK Ivory Antiques Trade Won’t Harm Elephants

CPAC – Building A Wall Against Art

Heritage Responders and Caribbean Museums in Crisis

Maori Mokomokai to Return to New Zealand

Update: Art Trade Reacts to Threatened Bank Secrecy Act

A Forgotten Connection: Rembrandt and the Art of Mughal India

EU Adds Art Dealers to Money Laundering Rules

AAMD Sanctions Museums for Selling Artworks

US Monuments and the Southwestern Cultural Landscape

Whose Truth? NYT Journalist Accused of Stealing Cultural Property

Chilkat Blanket Return: Myths, Legends and Facts

Ethiopia: We Want Our Art Back, Not Long Term Loans

CPAC Testimony: Will US Extend China’s Cultural Monopoly?

Greater Chaco Leases OK’d: Natives, Environmentalists Stunned

A Textile Collector Changes the World

Proposed EU Rules on Asian, Islamic and Antiquities Trade

UK Imposes Strict Ivory Sales Ban

To Repatriate or Not to Repatriate: That is the Question

BLM Failed to Comply with National Historic Preservation Act

Returning African Heritage From Global Museums

Will US Embargo on Art of China & Tibet Be Renewed?

Cultural Property: Rights of Jewish and Christian Minorities

Snow and Ice Archaeology in a Changing World Climate

Visual Politics – Protests and the Art Museum

Thailand Wants Major Statues Collected in 1960s Back from US Museums

Frida Kahlo Barbie Sparks Protests

Art in the Time of Facebook: Prehistoric Sculpture Censored By Social Media

American Jewish Groups Outraged by US Agreement with Libya

Art Dealer Program Brings Over 100 Artifacts Back to Tribes

China & US: Human Rights Versus Cultural Property Claims

Re-Discovering the Classics

Chaco Canyon Update: BLM Delays Leases Affecting Industry, Indians, Archaeologists

Indian and Pacific Island Heritage Disappears Beneath the Waves

Yemen Claims Jewish Religious Artifacts

New York District Attorney Goes After Art Collections

Turkey Bombs 3,000 Year Old Syro-Hittite Site to Rubble

Classical Film-making: Muscles, Gore and Mythical Monsters

EMTs for US Heritage: National Heritage Responders

Salmonella May Have Caused Millions of Aztec Deaths

Museums Can Help to Save the World

‘Historic Environment Scotland’ Tackles Climate Change

Native Visions – Photographs by Don Kirby

Chaco Canyon Exhibit on Indefinite Hold

French Town Seeks Bust Sold By Parish Priest 100+ Years Ago

Getty Paper Challenges Nationalist Cultural Heritage Policies

“I Must Have It!” Art, Crime and Value in Film

Longstanding Federal Policy Threatened by Indian Art Law

Catalonia Seeks Independence: Spain Orders Art Returned

Düsseldorf Mayor Cancels Stern Exhibition – Then Reverses Decision

US Blocks Import of Art and Artifacts from Libya

Germany Denies Immunity for Dead Sea Scrolls

Britain’s Treasure Act Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary

Museums Around the World Display Global Heritage

Bearing False Witness: The Media, ISIS and Antiquities

Mobile Herders or Teenage Warriors from the Steppe?

Puma Graffitis Indian Monuments

Egyptian Coptic Museum Overlooked

Ritual Experience in New London Mithraeum

Bible Museum Opens in US Capitol

Ancestors Return to Indigenous Peoples

Two Sides to Louvre Abu Dhabi Opening

Colorful Classical Statues Still Surprise Us

Pakistan Museum Trashes Ancient Statues

100 Year Negotiation Won’t Bring Books Home

US Gives China License to Loot

CCP Testimony on 2017 STOP Act

Terrorism, Cultural Heritage and the Threat to Museums’ Public Missions

Second opinion: Bad Data on US Cambodia MOU

Economic Policy Not Opium Caused China Collapse

NY Cops Seize Panel with 70 Years Provenance

Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game Goes After Frieze Masters

New Art Law for India?

Peabody-Essex Artifacts Go Back to Tribes

US Leaves UNESCO

U.S. Withdraws from UNESCO

Antiques & Elephants: Changes to UK Ivory Law

CCP Statement to CPAC on Cambodian MOU

Land Grab at 3rd Millennium Site in Gaza – Hamas versus Heritage

Pompeii’s Director Breaks Archaeological Traditions

Theft of Viking Treasure Devastates Norwegian Museum

US Rescue of Iraqi Jewish Archives Imperiled

Zero, what a Concept!

Corrupt Cambodian Regime Fails MOU Criteria

Major Case on Chinese and Cypriot Coins Should Be Heard

Commentary: Public Monuments – Beyond Charlottesville

US Renews Mali MOU, Blocks 19-20th C Imports

Egypt Policies: Finders Keepers to Death Penalty

No EU problem with terrorist antiquities, so let’s legislate for it

Syrian Museum Wants Art Looted By Syrian Soldiers Back

Viking Warrior Women – Myth or Reality?

Preservation Pioneer: Nancy Hatch Dupree

Update: Stonehenge Tunnel Gets Official Green Light

Rome’s “Ketchup City” Found Beneath the Waves

Hobby Lobby, the Antiquities Mess and Need for Reform

EU Regulations Use Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut

Key Issues in Return of Benin Artifacts

Facts on Terrorism and the Art Trade

Teaching Racial Diversity in the Ancient World

Art Dealer Foundation Supports Native ‘Soul of Nations’

Texan Puts Up a Fight for Tyrannosaur Head

French Scientists Reveal “True Colors” of Sainte-Chapelle Apostles

Restrictive German Cultural Property Law Now In English

Qatar Works to Preserve Sudan’s Monuments

Neglect of Egypt’s Antiquities Bigger Issue Than Theft

Ancient Roots of Wine-making at Cite du Vin

Archaeology Proxy for Politics in Turkey

“Little Pompeii” Found Outside Vienne, France

Philippine’s Duterte Demands Bells Back

Seizure at Met Interrupts Repatriation

Congress Holds CPAC Accountable

Indian Monuments Threatened By Removal of Legal Protections

Hobby Lobby Breaks the Rules

UNESCO Declares Tomb of Patriarchs to be Palestinian World Heritage Site

Colombia Seeks Bids for Salvage of $1 Billion Shipwreck

American-Libyan Jews Seek Rights to Heritage

Tuareg Art and Crafts May Be Next on US Embargo List

Due Diligence: Access Denied to Data on Stolen Art

Broken Promises, Dirty Dealings by Tongan Government

Norwegian Library to Bring African Literature to a World Audience

Doggie Boondoggle

Paradigm Shift as Dealers Partner With Tribes

Now That Jews Are Gone, Egypt Says It Will Restore Sites

Cleveland Museum Deserves Full Credit for Researching and Returning Head of Drusus to Italy

Nations Meet in Alternative Universe in Which They Support Cultural Tolerance

Dikers’ Native American Art at the Met

Making Life Miserable for Museums, Again?

Innovative Antiquities Sale by Toledo Museum

A Journey with Ceremonial Objects

Benin Repatriation Request Raises Tough Questions

Vikan: New Culture of Antiquities Collecting

Exhibition: Native Fashion Now!

Industry Behemoths Set Voluntary Rules for Art Business

Antiquities Coalition Proposes “Pollution Tax” on Art Trade

Pandora’s Big Disappointment

Court Says Statue 600 years in Japan Should Go to to Korean Temple

Stunning Bronze Age Golden Torc and Roman Villa Highlight 2015 PAS Reports

Native Alaskan Craftsmen Suffer from Ivory Laws

India on Kapoor Repatriation: “We brought back what was genuine, and left the rest there.”

North Dakota Pipeline Destroys Native Burials

News from Turkey: Finding an Ancient Statue, Flooding an Antique Town, and Cancelling a Modern Art Biennal

Michael Jackson Lived Again

After Pressure, Germany Announces Reform of Limbach Commission

Collecting ancient art, an old tradition under attack.

Mica Ertegun Gift to Restore Edicule in Church of Holy Sepulchre

History-Changing Discoveries in London Construction Site

Celebrating 15 Years of Import Restrictions?

Satellite Dishes on Ancient Tombs

German Cultural Assets Protection Law Moves Inexorably Forward

The Dolorous Case of Pakistan’s Museums

Bad Policy: Antiquities Coalition Draft “#CultureUnderThreat Task Force Report”

Instant Conviction of Japanese Dealer

Commentary: Sarah Parcak’s TED Prize – Can International Crowdsourcing Replace Source Country Commitment?

Two 7500 BC Skeletons Go to Tribal Organization

Naman Ahuja on the People’s Museum

Archaeologists Argue Over Source of Stonehenge’s Ancient ‘Bluestones’

Battle over Rights to Richest Shipwrecked Treasure

French Government Reverses Donation to Guimet of Chinese Gold Ornaments

Turkey’s AK Party Nails Giant Election Poster to Valens Aqueduct

From THE HINDU: A Stunning Opinion by Dr. Vishakha N. Desai

Heads Roll at Indian Museums

Tomb of Turkish Founding Grandfather Relocated

Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy: Accountability, Transparency, and Legal Certainty

Mark B. Feldman: Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy

No More “Good Provenance”

May 5, 2025

CCP & GHA Response to Morocco’s Request to Restrict U.S. Access to Antiquities and Ethnological Art

May 5, 2025

Vietnam’s Request for Cultural Property Agreement Stretching from 1945 to 77,000 years ago

May 5, 2025

Testimony on the Republic of Italy’s 25th Year Request for U.S. Import Restrictions

April 11, 2025

Cleveland Museum’s High-Tech Sleuthing Identifies Bubon Statue

April 10, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs and the Art Market

April 9, 2025

What Happens When Precious Newari Paintings Go to Kathmandu?

April 7, 2025

Colgate University Voluntarily Returns 895 Mesoamerican Artifacts to Mexico

April 4, 2025

Earliest Evidence of Human Transportation by Travois Found in NM White Sands National Park

April 4, 2025

Looting and Destruction of Sudan National Museum

April 3, 2025

Opinion: It’s Time to Make Collecting Great Again!

April 2, 2025

Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services Gutted

March 31, 2025

Careful Collector No. 35 – Days Gone By: When You Could Purchase US, Foreign, and Ancient Coins at Your Local Department Store

January 25, 2025

Chile Requests Five Year Extension of U.S. Import Restrictions

January 20, 2025

More Bricks in Wall Against Art: Vietnam Import Ban Sought

January 13, 2025

Denmark Michelangelo Exhibition: Another Side of Art Reproduction

January 12, 2025

Buying Greenland: Strategic Interests, Viking Myths, Archaeology and Project Iceworm

January 11, 2025

Papuan Tribes Refuse Return of Ritual Skulls, Citing Curses and Loss of Relevance

January 9, 2025

John Gilmore Ford (1928–2024) A Life Devoted to Art, Preservation, and Public Access

December 31, 2024

Careful Collector 34: What the Second Trump Administration Might Mean for Collectors

December 29, 2024

Cultural Cookbook 4: Heirloom Desserts from Hazel’s Berkeley Kitchen

December 28, 2024

Cultural Cookbook 3: Papuan and East Asian Medley

December 28, 2024

Cultural Cookbook 1: Recipes from Roving Writers

December 28, 2024

Cultural Cookbook 2: Dastarkhan from Afghanistan

December 24, 2024

Factum Foundation and Selene Project Are Revolutionizing Digital Documentation

December 13, 2024

Prosecutorial Overreach or Ethical Reckoning? The Manhattan DA’s Latest Campaign Against Almagià and Princeton

December 7, 2024

Careful Collector No. 33: Angie Funds Her Hoard

December 4, 2024

Cultural Property News 2023-2024 Report

October 26, 2024

UK: Reparations and Repatriation at ‘Reckoning with History’

October 25, 2024

Careful Collector No. 32 – What the Heck is It?

October 19, 2024

Museum of the Bible Exhibition Unveils Afghan Liturgical Quire

October 18, 2024

Brazil Opens Two Indigenous Museums

October 18, 2024

Tens of thousands of artifacts looted from Sudan National Museum

October 18, 2024

Ukraine – Russians steal ancient statues from Mariupol, looted artwork spotted in Crimea, Customs seizes medieval sabers.

October 17, 2024

Netherlands to Indonesia – Objects Taken in Puputan Badung War Returned

October 17, 2024

Afghanistan: Taliban Ban Images of ‘Living Things’ & Promise to Preserve Ancient Buddhist Site By Digging Copper Mine Under It

October 15, 2024

Off-Road Racing Destroys Chilean Geoglyphs While AI Enables Hundreds of New Finds in Peru

October 15, 2024

UK’s National Museum Directors’ Council Issues Open Letter on Museum Protests

October 14, 2024

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Hearing to Restitution Study Group on Benin Bronzes

September 30, 2024

Careful Collector No. 31 – It’s the Political Season So Why Not Collect Political Memorabilia?

September 30, 2024

CPAC Hearing Ignores Realities in Lebanon, Mongolia, and El Salvador

September 23, 2024

El Salvador Seeks MOU Renewal Despite 37 Year History of Import Restrictions, Corruption, and Government Neglect

September 8, 2024

Lebanon in Chaos: Will US Sign Heritage Agreement?

September 1, 2024

The Internet’s Favorite Sumerian

August 31, 2024

China 2024: The Smothered Screams of Muslim Genocide

August 30, 2024

Elizabeth Weiss & the New Archaeology Wars

August 26, 2024

Careful Collector #30: Sending Art and Antiquities to Failed States No Recipe for Preservation

August 22, 2024

ATADA Award Goes to Robert Gallegos, Founder of Voluntary Returns Program

August 11, 2024

Neolithic News: Stonehenge Tunnel Plan Terminated

August 5, 2024

Moundbuilders Golf Course Now Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks

August 1, 2024

UK’s Horniman Museum Benin Repatriation Re-examined

July 29, 2024

Careful Collector No. 29 – Importing Antiquities, Art and Collectibles into the EU Becoming Far More Challenging

June 30, 2024

Italy: Excess Art to Colossal Naples Museum – Carabinieri Revel in Seizure of 105,000 Artifacts

June 24, 2024

A Closer Look at the Portable Antiquities Scheme

June 21, 2024

World’s Oldest Shipwreck Discovered in Mediterranean

June 21, 2024

Berlin’s Altes Museum Returns Collection of Apulian Vases

June 20, 2024

Careful Collector No. 28 – Liberated Art Returns Home

June 20, 2024

Ukraine Requests 1.4 Million Years’ Import Restrictions on Art

June 18, 2024

Commentary: Problems of Universal Art

June 10, 2024

Ecuador: Turmoil, Neglect, and a History of Legal Looting

June 3, 2024

Careful Collector #27 – It Came from Outer Space

April 30, 2024

Dirty Details: British Museum Presses Case Against Former Curator Peter Higgs

April 28, 2024

A Fungus Among Us at Persepolis & Pyramid Cladding at Menkaure Abandoned

April 28, 2024

WMF Turns Over Angkor Wat to APSARA Despite Human Rights Concerns Over Government Control

April 28, 2024

Greek Ceramics Pulled from Auction Show That Archives Should Be Made Public

April 27, 2024

Met Museum Aims at Cultural Reconciliation in Returning Treasures to Thailand

April 27, 2024

Careful Collector #26 – The Benefits of Dealing with Established Trade Associations

April 26, 2024

Betrayal of Tibet: DA’s Controversial Returns to China

April 25, 2024

Congressman Joe Wilson Demands Investigation into State Department’s Cultural Policy Missteps

April 25, 2024

In and Out Artworks – Sculptures from America’s Greatest Collections in Flux

March 31, 2024

Careful Collector No. 25 – Third Party Grading Services and Slabs: Good for Collecting or Not?

March 30, 2024

Afghanistan Sites Demolished by Bulldozers

March 5, 2024

NY’s Rubin Museum Transitions to ‘Museum Without Walls’

March 2, 2024

Europe: Alarming Future of the Art, Antiquity and Archaeology Market

February 29, 2024

Ethiopian Shield from 1868 Battle of Maqdala Withdrawn from Auction

February 25, 2024

Souvenir Costs French Tourist 8 Days in Luxor Jail

February 20, 2024

2024 India Report: U.S. Art Blockade Inevitable Despite Destruction and Neglect

February 20, 2024

Careful Collector No. 24 – William Penn Still Stands Tall in Philadelphia

February 17, 2024

Commentary: Renewal of Algerian MOU

February 12, 2024

The New NAGPRA: ‘traditional knowledge’ in, artifacts out.

January 31, 2024

Careful Collector No. 23 – Are Warranties Worth Anything?

January 10, 2024

China Doubles Down to Crush Islamic Culture and Identity

January 5, 2024

At Great Expense, Manhattan DA Returns Fakes to Lebanon

December 31, 2023

Did NY Asst. DA Bogdanos Return a Legally Owned Object to Greece?

December 28, 2023

Careful Collector No. 22 – Your Tax Dollars at Work

December 16, 2023

Law? What law? CPAC Ignores Statute in New ‘Evidence Free’ MOU with India

December 6, 2023

Why Is The Manhattan D.A.’S Office Publishing Data It Knows To Be Untrue?

December 5, 2023

Careful Collector No. 21 – Ancient Coins as Teaching Tools for Kids

November 1, 2023

Oct-Sept 2023 Short Reads: Met Museum Returns, China Goes Digital, Michael Ward Accepts Plea, and Spurious Scythians Seized in Spain

November 1, 2023

UNESCO Update: Stamping Out Cat Juggling Again?

October 31, 2023

The British Museum is still the greatest museum in the world.

October 27, 2023

Korea’s Supreme Court Resolves Decade-long Dispute Over Stolen Buddhist Statue

October 26, 2023

Cleveland Museum of Art Fights Back Against NY DA’s Seizure of Famous Bronze Statue

October 23, 2023

Legal Head of Italian Culture Ministry: ‘Fiendishly extensive’ proofs bar imports.

October 17, 2023

Careful Collector No. 20 – Why Is Our Government Recognizing the Rights of Authoritarian Governments to Cultural Heritage of Displaced Religious and Ethnic Minorities?

October 3, 2023

Armenians Racing to Save Heritage in Karabakh

September 27, 2023

Careful Collector No. 19 – The Life and Times of Trail-Blazing Antiquities Dealer Leo Patterson

September 17, 2023

Misuse of U.S. Heritage Law: State Department Seeks Blockade on Nepalese Art

September 7, 2023

U.S. Signs MOU with Yemen. This Time, No Testimony Allowed.

September 2, 2023

Egypt’s Jewish Restoration Projects: Seized Geniza Still Missing

September 1, 2023

Return of Benin Bronzes: Why are the victims of slavery hushed up?

August 31, 2023

Cairo’s Historic Cemeteries: Erasing the Dead Past

August 29, 2023

Honduras Wants Import Restrictions After 20 Years Noncompliance With U.S. Law

August 25, 2023

Alice Kandell Gives Major Collection of Tibetan Art to Minneapolis

August 12, 2023

Careful Collector No. 18 – Resetting the Collecting Narrative

July 24, 2023

The Myth of the “recovery” of Argentina’s Act of the Declaration of Independence

July 19, 2023

Careful Collector No. 17 – ATADA Voluntary Returns Program for Native American Artifacts

July 4, 2023

Benin Bronzes Lawsuit Against Smithsonian: Deadria Farmer-Paellmann & Bruce Afran Interview

July 2, 2023

Careful Collector No. 16 – Let it Snow in a Globe – Paige’s Accumulation Becomes a Collection

June 30, 2023

Israel Asks Citizens to Turn In Antiquities – Archaeologists Ask to Stop Excavations

June 21, 2023

Hong Kong: Laws Imperil Culture From Art to Anthems

June 20, 2023

Pop Music Against Oppression

June 18, 2023

Controversy Roils “Disturbingly Informative” Mütter Museum

June 18, 2023

China Seeks Cultural Protection But Nixes US UNESCO Membership

June 18, 2023

EU Action Plan Replays Bogus Claims About Art Market

June 18, 2023

Law Note: UK Ivory Act Expanded

June 17, 2023

Art Moves: Kogi Sacred Masks Go from Germany to Colombia

June 17, 2023

Art Moves: Three Vatican Parthenon Fragments go to Greek Archbishopric, then Acropolis Museum

June 17, 2023

Law Note: Netherlands Court Rules Crimean Gold Must Go To Ukraine

June 10, 2023

Voices Pro & Con at CPAC on China and Bulgaria MOUs

June 5, 2023

Careful Collector No. 15 – World Culture Cop

May 27, 2023

Is the EU sleepwalking into an art market nightmare?

May 26, 2023

SPECIAL REPORT: 2023 CHINA MOU – Building China’s Art Monopoly and Destroying Minority Culture and Identity

April 29, 2023

Careful Collector No. 14: A Collecting Bubble That Burst

April 28, 2023

Repatriation of Brutus Aureus Highlights Dangers of Overzealous NY DA’s Office to Ancient Coin Collecting

April 26, 2023

Nigeria Gives Benin Ruler Exclusive Ownership of Bronzes

April 21, 2023

Can Taliban be Trusted to Preserve Afghan Heritage?

April 19, 2023

In Defense of David

April 17, 2023

Careful Collector No. 13: New Collectors from Abroad

April 16, 2023

Young historian finds medieval gold treasure in the Netherlands

March 11, 2023

Turkey Loses Guennol Stargazer Appeal. Statue Will Go to Christie’s and Steinhardt.

March 9, 2023

EU: Death Comes to the Vatican Canon, Rome Archeological Exhibit, Ali Aboutaam Fined after 6 Year Investigation

March 4, 2023

US Museum News: Brauer Controversial Deaccession & Frankenthaler Grants for Clean Energy

March 1, 2023

Careful Collector No.12: NFTs- Flash in the Pan or Here to Stay?

February 24, 2023

State Dept Renews Blockade on Libyan Art, Ignoring Law and Facts

February 4, 2023

Will U.S. Sign Uzbekistan Art Embargo 50,000 BC to 1917?

February 3, 2023

Careful Collector No. 11: Orders and Decorations: Can Symbols of Valor be Bought and Sold?

February 3, 2023

CPAC Report: Coin Collectors Face More Collateral Damage

January 9, 2023

Cambodia and “Stone Temple Nationalism”

January 8, 2023

NAGPRA: Major Changes Proposed for 2023 to Native American Repatriation Law

January 5, 2023

Careful Collector No. 10: The Lifecycle of Collectibles: Different Generations Often Value Different Things

January 3, 2023

Committee for Cultural Policy 2022 Annual Report

January 3, 2023

168 Nazca Lines, 35K Syrian Antiquities, No More Golf at Moundbuilder Site and Pompeii’s Sheep are Baaaaack

January 1, 2023

US Plans Agreements to Block Art from Uzbekistan, Cambodia and North Macedonia

December 7, 2022

Careful Collector No. 9: Will my African Art be repatriated as reparations for the Colonialist past?

December 1, 2022

STOP Act Passes: First law restricting export of American art

November 11, 2022

Comments on UNESCO’s Draft Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property

November 2, 2022

UNESCO Model Provisions Could End Most Global Trade

October 30, 2022

Putin Using Martial Law to Legitimate Ukraine Art Looting

October 29, 2022

Moai on Easter Island Damaged in Arson Fire

October 20, 2022

The Llullaillaco Mummies

October 20, 2022

The Careful Collector: What to Do with Your Ivory Keyed Piano?

October 10, 2022

Restitution Study Group Unable to Stop Smithsonian’s Benin Returns

October 4, 2022

Where will Benin bronzes go? Nigerian government, Edo Museum or Oba?

September 29, 2022

Caucasus Heritage Watch: Azerbaijan is Destroying Armenian Heritage

September 27, 2022

ICOM Condemns Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Heritage

September 27, 2022

Repatriations: Getty Sirens, Cambodian Sculptures, Jewish Coin, Nepal Stele

September 26, 2022

The Careful Collector – Why does a French auction house want to know so much about me?

September 26, 2022

UK Charity Act Opens Door to Restitutions

September 19, 2022

J’accuse! Georges Lotfi’s Dramatic Open Letter to Bogdanos’ Antiquities Trafficking Unit

August 31, 2022

Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Masterpieces

August 28, 2022

The Careful Collector: What’s it Worth? Friends Find Value in Family Heirlooms

August 2, 2022

Russia’s War Against Ukrainian Culture

August 1, 2022

The Careful Collector- Fakes and Alterations: Hana Hunts for Vintage Uke with Few Strings Attached

August 1, 2022

Shorts: Briton in Iraq Released – Yale Gives Up Indian Artifacts – Jewish Manuscript Rescued – Gentileschi Seized

August 1, 2022

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche

July 28, 2022

Libyan Jewish Community Fights for Rights to Heritage

July 28, 2022

Will US Renew Libyan Art Embargo During Civil War?

July 1, 2022

The Careful Collector: Great Catsby is Life of the Party

July 1, 2022

Turkey – Hagia Sophia Suffers Serious Damage: Walls Peeled and Marble Tiles Shattered

June 30, 2022

5 Native Nations Will Manage Bears Ears with Feds

June 1, 2022

The Careful Collector: Not as Rare as You Might Think!

May 31, 2022

Only in New Mexico: The Hermit of Hermit’s Peak and a Jewish Tribal Chief

May 30, 2022

Belgian Blunder: Government Sells Stolen Ife Head for €240

May 28, 2022

Sacre bleu! Former Louvre president charged in antiquities trafficking case.

May 21, 2022

Commentary: Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq – The sectarian appropriation of Iraq’s past

May 15, 2022

Losing the Parthenon Marbles: History, Passion, and Possession

May 5, 2022

U.S. Weighs Questionable Cultural Property Agreement with Pakistan

April 22, 2022

The Careful Collector: The Riddle of the Native American Eagle Headdress

April 4, 2022

Mes Aynak: Dark Days for Afghanistan’s Buddhist Heritage

April 3, 2022

The Careful Collector: Don’t Import Buyer’s Remorse

March 31, 2022

“Who ordered the borscht?” When a State Steals Culture, Others Pay the Bill.

March 31, 2022

Egypt’s Antiquities Authority Seizes Geniza from Jewish Cemetery

March 31, 2022

EU Parliament Resolution Condemns Azerbaijan’s Erasure of Armenian History

March 18, 2022

CINOA-Art Market Demands Fundamental Review of Law Making

March 17, 2022

Mali Government Wants U.S. Blockade on Art as Russian Mercenaries Secure Regime

March 11, 2022

Bamiyan: What Lasted for 1500 Years Will be Gone in Ten

March 7, 2022

U.S. Treasury Report: Key Findings on Money Laundering and Terror Finance in Art Trade

February 3, 2022

Citizen Activists Want Nepalese Art Back

January 19, 2022

Vance Caps Career: Steinhardt Gives Up $70 Million in Antiquities

January 6, 2022

2021 Cultural Agreements Deny Access to Art

December 30, 2021

The Lost World of Eastern Turkestan: A Photographic Journey to the Past

December 26, 2021

Whistleblower Fired: UN Human Rights Council Gave Dissidents’ Names to China

December 24, 2021

Uyghur Human and Cultural Rights: Forced Labor Prevention Act and Shocking Holocaust Museum Report

December 14, 2021

Gold Ewer with Hollywood History Delivered to Turkey

December 12, 2021

Roman Busts Found & 45,000 Skeletons Reburied in UK Rail Project

November 30, 2021

‘Picture Cave’ Site of Ancient Native Pictographs Auctioned

November 2, 2021

Mexico Establishes Agency to Seek Antiquities on Carabinieri Model

October 31, 2021

Nation-Building with Archaeology: Iraq, Syria and Libya

October 31, 2021

CENSORED: Cartoons and Ancient Conquerors in China

October 31, 2021

Dutch Court: Scythian Gold from Crimea Should Go to Ukraine

October 30, 2021

Trade Delivers Reality Check to Money Laundering Regulators

October 29, 2021

Germany Funds €600,000 NEXUD AI App for Antiquities

October 28, 2021

Lebanon, Abomey, Bishop Aukland, and Afghanistan

October 15, 2021

Peru Asks to Extend 25 Year Long Art Blockade

October 12, 2021

Art Market Organizations Stand Together Against Illicit Trade

October 5, 2021

The Real Looting of Afghanistan: Pit Mining vs Heritage

October 2, 2021

Afghanistan’s 4000 Years of Cross-Border Empires and Trade

October 2, 2021

The Evolution and Deconstruction of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage Laws

October 2, 2021

Afghanistan’s Heritage: A Former Government, the Taliban, and a Questionable Blockade

September 5, 2021

Afghanistan Ethnographic Art: Turkoman Embroidery

September 5, 2021

Coins of Afghanistan – Documenting History and Trade

August 28, 2021

Pashtunwali: Pashtun Traditional Tribal Law in Afghanistan

August 1, 2021

International Criminal Court: Cultural Heritage & Genocide

July 31, 2021

UNESCO Threatens Stonehenge with At-Risk Status

July 31, 2021

Future UK Ban on Hippo, Narwhal, Whale, and Walrus Ivories?

July 24, 2021

The Strange History of the Torlonia Marbles

July 20, 2021

A Tale of Two Seizures: The Carabinieri TPC

July 16, 2021

Around the Mediterranean: discoveries, ancient economies and national politics

July 11, 2021

Turkish MoU Will Devastate Minorities, Bolster Erdoğan Regime

July 10, 2021

Archaeological Discovery Points to Long-lost Settlement of Sarabay in Florida

June 23, 2021

Bulldozing Culture: China’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Heritage Reveals Genocidal Intent

May 31, 2021

Interview: Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on Preserving the Bakor Monoliths

May 30, 2021

Golf vs Ancient Earthworks: Moundbuilders Country Club Case Comes to the ‘Fore’

May 30, 2021

Thefts, Fakes, and Facsimiles: Preserving the Bakor Monoliths of Eastern Nigeria

May 30, 2021

Sisi’s Parade of Absolute Rulers – Celebration of Autocracy Opens Egyptian Museum

May 29, 2021

CircArt and the British Museum – A great opportunity wasted.

May 27, 2021

Controversial Bill on Export of Native American Art Before Congress

May 25, 2021

April May 2021 Repatriation Digest

May 20, 2021

Setback for Planned Mega-Resort and Amusement Park at Angkor Wat

May 17, 2021

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 1

May 17, 2021

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 2

May 17, 2021

The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 3

April 21, 2021

Critical Comments Rain Down on Draft EU Regulations

April 15, 2021

MOU Backstory: How Cultural Property Agreements with Authoritarian Middle Eastern Governments are Made

April 5, 2021

Brucemore: Directing Crisis Recovery of an Historic Home and Landscape

April 4, 2021

Is ICE Writing Its Own Laws? The Curious Case of the Chandler Museum

April 2, 2021

Old Salem Museums & Gardens: How a Living Museum in the South Addresses the History of Slavery

April 2, 2021

NETCHER Project: 194 Recommendations Locked in Unreality

March 31, 2021

CINOA Report Blasts False Information on Art Trade

March 27, 2021

Argam Ayvazyan: Spy–Researcher For Nakhichevan Armenian Culture

March 13, 2021

Albania Wants US Art Embargo But Where is the Art?

March 10, 2021

Egypt’s Brutal Regime Wants to Renew US Blockade on Art; Claims to Protect Heritage & Culture

February 27, 2021

Art and Abolition: Art Objects and the Rejection of Slavery

February 2, 2021

Turkish MOU: Last Minute State Department Deal Sparks Outrage

February 1, 2021

US Renews Italy’s Quarter-Century Art Embargo – New Morocco MOU Blocks Ancient and Ethnographic Art

January 29, 2021

UK Not Adopting EU Art and Antiquities Import Rules

January 28, 2021

The Museum of the Bible: Repatriations, investigations, thefts, and fakes dog DC institution.

January 27, 2021

Armenian Monuments Threatened After Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh War

January 20, 2021

Nigeria Welcomes Future Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)

January 18, 2021

UNESCO Appoints Syria Trust for Development to Heritage Post

January 16, 2021

Bungling Smugglers: Egypt Seeks Extradition after Trial in Absentia of Former Consul

January 10, 2021

Anti-Money Laundering Law Goes After Antiquities Trade

January 9, 2021

Our World Heritage’s Full Year of Events: Rethinking the World Heritage Convention

December 31, 2020

Bad DIY Idea: Egyptians Digging for Antiquities in Own Homes

December 29, 2020

CCP/CPN 2020 Year End Report

December 24, 2020

Major Lilly Endowment Grants to U.S. Museums Center on Religion and Art

November 23, 2020

UNESCO Marks Convention’s 50th Anniversary with Doctored Photos and Disinformation

November 22, 2020

Humboldt Forum Collaboration with Tanzania

November 22, 2020

‘Cute Repatriation’ Prank Brings Fake Beuys Sculpture to Tanzania

November 19, 2020

Forget history. There is no Genghis Khan.

November 19, 2020

Berlin’s Museuminsel in the Wake of Vandalism

November 17, 2020

Hypothetical Hopes for Healing Through Art

October 17, 2020

Turkey Seizes Ancient Seed Collection in Nationalist Move

October 13, 2020

Nigeria: Support Cultural Expansion, Not Art Blockade

October 10, 2020

Gary Vikan: The Holy Shroud, A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death

September 30, 2020

Elias Gerasoulis: A geo-political perspective on the Turkish MoU

September 30, 2020

August & September: Six Short Stories on Museums, Art and Culture

September 29, 2020

WCO Reports: Heritage Trafficking Tiny Percentage of Illegal Trade

September 28, 2020

Cowan’s Auctions Returns Zuni War God to Tribe

September 27, 2020

Istanbul’s Last Church-Mosque-Museum

September 27, 2020

Interview with Robert G. Ousterhout: The Preservation and Reconversion of Kariye Camii

September 20, 2020

Cranach to Corot: AAMD Moratorium Lets Brooklyn Sell Art

September 20, 2020

State Department to Hear Requests for Import Restrictions on Nigerian, Greek, and Bolivian Art

September 14, 2020

Rio Tinto: How Australian Law Tolerates Heritage Destruction

September 10, 2020

China Tariffs Come Back for Real in 2020

August 27, 2020

Coalition Opposes Cultural Property Requests by Repressive Governments

August 15, 2020

Smashing Buddhas in Pakistan: Rural Ignorance and Museum Indifference

July 30, 2020

RAND Corp Report Demolishes Assumptions on Antiquities and Terror

July 29, 2020

Senate Committee Approves Bill that will Block Native Art Exports

July 19, 2020

RAND Corporation Report Debunks Facebook & Dark Web Ties to Illegal Antiquities

July 17, 2020

Reclaiming Tibetan Culture in the Digital Age

July 13, 2020

New Publication: Ivory 2020 Art and Heritage Law

July 13, 2020

Hagia Sophia No Longer a Museum: US Should Deny Turkey’s Request for Blockade on Art

July 8, 2020

Italy Wants 20 Year Art Blockade Expanded to 2025

July 1, 2020

Turkish Court Decides Hagia Sophia’s Conversion to Mosque

June 30, 2020

Apsáalooke Women and Warriors in Chicago

June 29, 2020

Ancient and Ethnographic Art from Colombia Faces Another 5-Year Ban

June 2, 2020

Rediscovering Old Provenances for Ancient Coins

June 1, 2020

Citizenship Project – How NY Historical Society Museum Helps Immigrants

April 26, 2020

St John Simpson Interview: Afghanistan repatriation, Daesh, remote-archaeology and the ILLICID report

April 23, 2020

Brent Huffman: Mes Aynak Update

April 22, 2020

Afghanistan 1975 – Before War – Photographs by Françoise Foliot

April 8, 2020

Arts Council England: Guidelines for Museum Repatriation

April 6, 2020

Chaco Cultural Region: Public Comment on Management Plan

April 5, 2020

Virtual Coin Experience: Numismatic Museums and Discovery Databases

March 31, 2020

The Interview: Adam Lowe of Factum Arte

March 30, 2020

Hartwig Fischer: Collections entail responsibilities. Notes on a global institution.

March 26, 2020

Visit Sacred Spaces through Virtual Travel

March 20, 2020

Costa Rica Seeks U.S. Import Restrictions on Art

March 6, 2020

Elizabeth S. Bolman: Images from the Red Monastery Church

February 27, 2020

CCP/CPN 2019 End of Year Report

February 27, 2020

Tohono O’odham Nation: U.S. Blasts a Monument to Build a Wall

February 24, 2020

Scholar Identifies Missing Indian Statue in Ashmolean Collection

February 23, 2020

Elizabeth Bolman Interview: The Red Monastery Church

February 22, 2020

US Customs Delivers 7 “National Treasure” Coins Worth $200 to Cyprus

February 19, 2020

Hong Kong Artists’ Political Protests Continue

February 12, 2020

How Jordanian Import Restrictions Really Happened

January 31, 2020

Collaborative Exhibit at LACMA – Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific

January 21, 2020

Five Reasons NOT to Sign Cultural Property Deals with Turkey and Tunisia

January 19, 2020

Iran or China – Cultural Rights are Human Rights

January 18, 2020

CINOA: Trump’s Threat to Attack Cultural Sites Raises Broader Questions

January 7, 2020

Turkey Claims all Art and Artifacts: Centuries of Multicultural History and Trade Denied

January 7, 2020

CCP & GHA Testify on Blockade on All Art from Tunisia

December 23, 2019

Turkish Request Alarms Armenians, Greeks, Turkish Jews, Orthodox and Syriac Christians in Diaspora

December 20, 2019

Controversy: How US Recognizes Middle East Government Ownership of Jewish & Minority Heritage

December 19, 2019

What’s Next for 2020? Art Blockades, Money Laundering Rules, OFAC Sanctions

December 13, 2019

What Remains – Ancient Artworks Travel, Inspire, and Survive

December 6, 2019

End of Year: Federal Management Plans Threaten Bears Ears/Chaco

December 2, 2019

Safani Gallery of NY Files Lawsuit to Recover “Head of Alexander”

November 28, 2019

Successful Repatriation: The Utimut Process in Denmark & Greenland

November 28, 2019

Scandiknavery! Fakes, Fantasy, the Cold War and Cultural Histories

November 3, 2019

Bill Requiring Antiquities Dealers to Report Transactions Passes House – Expansion to All Art Trade Urged

October 29, 2019

CCP & GHA Testimony on Yemen’s Request for Cultural Property Restrictions

October 29, 2019

Morocco Seeks US Import Restrictions on Ancient & Ethnic Art

October 11, 2019

Jewish community issues urgent call on proposal to Block Yemeni and Moroccan heritage

October 10, 2019

Uzbekistan Leads the Way in International Collaboration on Cultural Heritage

October 9, 2019

John Gilmore Ford: Portrait of a Collector

October 4, 2019

Notorious: Indian Prosecutions and Foreign Repatriation

October 3, 2019

Never Seen Again? Indian Artifacts in Icon Centers Left to Rot

September 30, 2019

Turkey: Ilisu Dam Inundates 12,000 Year Old Town in Kurdish Region

September 24, 2019

The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 1

September 24, 2019

The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 2

August 18, 2019

US State Department Imposes Embargo on Algerian Cultural Artifacts, Including Rope!

July 31, 2019

Leonard Cohen, Anyone? Reporting on Illicit ‘Cultural Objects’ is Deceptive

July 28, 2019

UK Gov’t Query: Is Ban on Warthog, Hippo, Walrus, Whale and Narwhal Necessary?

July 27, 2019

Chaco Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears Roundup

July 24, 2019

2019 STOP Act: Fixing a Flawed Indian Art Bill

July 14, 2019

Was ILLICID Report ‘Buried’ For Failing to Show Illegal Trade?

July 11, 2019

Click Here to Enter Nirvana

June 26, 2019

The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts

June 16, 2019

EU Regulation Curtailing Import of Art & Antiquities Now Law

June 10, 2019

Turkey’s President Wants to Turn Hagia Sophia into a Mosque

May 30, 2019

African Voices: Muhigirwa Kinyunyi Claude of LUCHA Movement for Change

May 29, 2019

The Security State and Destruction of Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang

May 28, 2019

Montana Bill on Indian Cultural Patrimony Fails

May 25, 2019

Exhibitions and Demonstrations: How Art Museums Connect to the Community

May 24, 2019

Not Again! 25% Tariff on Chinese Antiques Pending

May 7, 2019

Expanding the Protecting U.S. Heritage Abroad Act

May 1, 2019

NAGPRA in Hawaii: Museum and Native Hawaiian Conflicts

April 1, 2019

Chile’s Application for Import Restrictions to CPAC – Testimony

April 1, 2019

Testimony to CPAC on Jordan’s Application for Import Restrictions

March 31, 2019

Asian Studies Association Condemns China’s Incarceration of Turkic Muslims

March 19, 2019

UNESCO Exposed!

March 19, 2019

EU 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive Program Notes

March 17, 2019

Germany Offers $2.17 Million for Ethnographic Provenance Research

March 12, 2019

Egypt Rejects Accessible Database of Art in Circulation

March 12, 2019

Discovery at Abydos Shines Light on 19th-20th C Egyptology

February 22, 2019

EU Parliament Holocaust Restitution Proposal Threatens Circulation of Ancient Art

February 20, 2019

A Central Asian Cinderella – The Tale of Bibi Seshambe

February 20, 2019

Bodleian Libraries Oxford Exhibition on Translation Highlights Cross-Cultural Communication

February 7, 2019

Brazil:: A New President Persecutes the Arts

February 6, 2019

Superb Rubin Museum Exhibition “Faith and Empire-Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism”

February 4, 2019

Chaco Canyon Update: One Year Later

February 2, 2019

Saudis Bomb Heritage Sites-Art Trade Blamed

February 2, 2019

UK to Change Treasure Act – New Restrictions Proposed

January 30, 2019

Savoy-Sarr Report on African Art Restitution: A Summary

January 29, 2019

Crow Museum of Asian Art Collection Donated to University of Texas

January 20, 2019

Polyresin Indian Gods Made-in-China

December 31, 2018

Australia Liberalizes Export Laws for Indigenous Art & Antiques

December 30, 2018

Committee for Cultural Policy 2018 Year-End Report

December 30, 2018

Italian Court Orders Getty to Return Bronze ‘Victorious Youth’ After Over 40 years

December 29, 2018

Art Imports to EU Threatened by Draconian Regulation

December 27, 2018

French Proposal for Restitution of African Art

December 20, 2018

18 Jewish Organizations Protest MENA Nationalization of Heritage to State Department

December 19, 2018

Is NAGPRA Irretrievably Broken?

December 19, 2018

ACCG Seeks Supreme Court Review in Coin Case

December 19, 2018

A Primer: NAGPRA, ARPA, and the Antiquities Act

December 17, 2018

2018 RECAP: Dumping Bears Ears Trumps Tribal Consensus

December 13, 2018

Uncertain Future for Golden Statue Holding Buddhist Mummy

November 29, 2018

AAIA Challenges Private Ownership of Native American Art

November 27, 2018

Egypt Demands Review of TEFAF Artworks

November 26, 2018

National Stolen Property Act: Primary US Cultural Property Law

November 26, 2018

Mwatana for Human Rights: Destruction of Yemen’s History

November 23, 2018

Benin Dialog Group: Building and Filling a New Museum in Benin

November 17, 2018

Are We in for a Flood of “Sleeper” Claims?

October 25, 2018

Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Trips… over the Truth

October 24, 2018

Nabu Museum Opens in Lebanon

October 21, 2018

Bill Introduced to Regulate Export of U.S. Tribal Art

October 19, 2018

Devotion and Decadence: at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

October 19, 2018

Rockefeller Gifts Bring Indian Art Home to Southwest

October 15, 2018

An Epic Battle: U.S. v. 3 Knife-Shaped Coins

October 12, 2018

“Plundered” Artifacts from Aged Missionary’s Collection Go to Colombia

October 10, 2018

Culture and Fashion: Betrayal is the New Black

September 25, 2018

UK Law Would Deputize “Ivory Hunters” to Search and Seize

September 22, 2018

Chinese Art Heists: Purloined Treasures

September 19, 2018

Rapa Nui Claims British Museum’s Moai Sculpture

September 18, 2018

Chinese Art and Antiques Dropped from US Tariff List

August 27, 2018

A Culture Destroyed: China Expunges Uyghur Identity

August 23, 2018

Mes Aynak: Corruption, Copper and a Nation’s Heritage

August 19, 2018

No Country for Old Achaemenids

August 10, 2018

Will Iraqi Jewish Heritage Stay in US?

August 10, 2018

Nigeria: Kano’s Walls Will Disappear

July 19, 2018

Update: Up to 25% Tariffs on Chinese Art Will Expand China’s Monopoly

July 12, 2018

We Don’t Need No Algerian Blockade

July 11, 2018

Bulgaria and Honduras Import Restrictions Coming Before CPAC

July 6, 2018

New Import Requirements for Ancient & Ethnographic Art

July 4, 2018

Mexico: Art in the Time of Restrictive Export Laws

July 2, 2018

Westminster Abbey Repatriation Claim From Ethiopia

July 2, 2018

‘Traffic’ Says UK Ivory Antiques Trade Won’t Harm Elephants

June 28, 2018

CPAC – Building A Wall Against Art

June 27, 2018

Heritage Responders and Caribbean Museums in Crisis

June 27, 2018

Maori Mokomokai to Return to New Zealand

June 25, 2018

Update: Art Trade Reacts to Threatened Bank Secrecy Act

June 18, 2018

A Forgotten Connection: Rembrandt and the Art of Mughal India

May 28, 2018

EU Adds Art Dealers to Money Laundering Rules

May 25, 2018

AAMD Sanctions Museums for Selling Artworks

May 25, 2018

US Monuments and the Southwestern Cultural Landscape

May 22, 2018

Whose Truth? NYT Journalist Accused of Stealing Cultural Property

May 21, 2018

Chilkat Blanket Return: Myths, Legends and Facts

May 15, 2018

Ethiopia: We Want Our Art Back, Not Long Term Loans

May 6, 2018

CPAC Testimony: Will US Extend China’s Cultural Monopoly?

April 26, 2018

Greater Chaco Leases OK’d: Natives, Environmentalists Stunned

April 22, 2018

A Textile Collector Changes the World

April 22, 2018

Proposed EU Rules on Asian, Islamic and Antiquities Trade

April 20, 2018

UK Imposes Strict Ivory Sales Ban

April 18, 2018

To Repatriate or Not to Repatriate: That is the Question

April 15, 2018

BLM Failed to Comply with National Historic Preservation Act

April 14, 2018

Returning African Heritage From Global Museums

April 10, 2018

Will US Embargo on Art of China & Tibet Be Renewed?

April 9, 2018

Cultural Property: Rights of Jewish and Christian Minorities

April 5, 2018

Snow and Ice Archaeology in a Changing World Climate

March 30, 2018

Visual Politics – Protests and the Art Museum

March 15, 2018

Thailand Wants Major Statues Collected in 1960s Back from US Museums

March 14, 2018

Frida Kahlo Barbie Sparks Protests

March 14, 2018

Art in the Time of Facebook: Prehistoric Sculpture Censored By Social Media

March 12, 2018

American Jewish Groups Outraged by US Agreement with Libya

March 12, 2018

Art Dealer Program Brings Over 100 Artifacts Back to Tribes

March 10, 2018

China & US: Human Rights Versus Cultural Property Claims

March 7, 2018

Re-Discovering the Classics

March 7, 2018

Chaco Canyon Update: BLM Delays Leases Affecting Industry, Indians, Archaeologists

March 4, 2018

Indian and Pacific Island Heritage Disappears Beneath the Waves

February 13, 2018

Yemen Claims Jewish Religious Artifacts

February 11, 2018

New York District Attorney Goes After Art Collections

February 3, 2018

Turkey Bombs 3,000 Year Old Syro-Hittite Site to Rubble

February 2, 2018

Classical Film-making: Muscles, Gore and Mythical Monsters

February 1, 2018

EMTs for US Heritage: National Heritage Responders

January 26, 2018

Salmonella May Have Caused Millions of Aztec Deaths

January 25, 2018

Museums Can Help to Save the World

January 16, 2018

‘Historic Environment Scotland’ Tackles Climate Change

January 10, 2018

Native Visions – Photographs by Don Kirby

January 10, 2018

Chaco Canyon Exhibit on Indefinite Hold

January 8, 2018

French Town Seeks Bust Sold By Parish Priest 100+ Years Ago

January 4, 2018

Getty Paper Challenges Nationalist Cultural Heritage Policies

January 4, 2018

“I Must Have It!” Art, Crime and Value in Film

January 1, 2018

Longstanding Federal Policy Threatened by Indian Art Law

December 29, 2017

Catalonia Seeks Independence: Spain Orders Art Returned

December 28, 2017

Düsseldorf Mayor Cancels Stern Exhibition – Then Reverses Decision

December 13, 2017

US Blocks Import of Art and Artifacts from Libya

December 12, 2017

Germany Denies Immunity for Dead Sea Scrolls

December 10, 2017

Britain’s Treasure Act Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary

December 1, 2017

Museums Around the World Display Global Heritage

December 1, 2017

Bearing False Witness: The Media, ISIS and Antiquities

December 1, 2017

Mobile Herders or Teenage Warriors from the Steppe?

November 30, 2017

Puma Graffitis Indian Monuments

November 30, 2017

Egyptian Coptic Museum Overlooked

November 30, 2017

Ritual Experience in New London Mithraeum

November 29, 2017

Bible Museum Opens in US Capitol

November 25, 2017

Ancestors Return to Indigenous Peoples

November 25, 2017

Two Sides to Louvre Abu Dhabi Opening

November 19, 2017

Colorful Classical Statues Still Surprise Us

November 18, 2017

Pakistan Museum Trashes Ancient Statues

November 12, 2017

100 Year Negotiation Won’t Bring Books Home

November 11, 2017

US Gives China License to Loot

November 8, 2017

CCP Testimony on 2017 STOP Act

November 1, 2017

Terrorism, Cultural Heritage and the Threat to Museums’ Public Missions

October 31, 2017

Second opinion: Bad Data on US Cambodia MOU

October 31, 2017

Economic Policy Not Opium Caused China Collapse

October 30, 2017

NY Cops Seize Panel with 70 Years Provenance

October 28, 2017

Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game Goes After Frieze Masters

October 27, 2017

New Art Law for India?

October 18, 2017

Peabody-Essex Artifacts Go Back to Tribes

October 17, 2017

US Leaves UNESCO

October 17, 2017

U.S. Withdraws from UNESCO

October 15, 2017

Antiques & Elephants: Changes to UK Ivory Law

October 14, 2017

CCP Statement to CPAC on Cambodian MOU

October 7, 2017

Land Grab at 3rd Millennium Site in Gaza – Hamas versus Heritage

October 5, 2017

Pompeii’s Director Breaks Archaeological Traditions

October 4, 2017

Theft of Viking Treasure Devastates Norwegian Museum

October 2, 2017

US Rescue of Iraqi Jewish Archives Imperiled

September 30, 2017

Zero, what a Concept!

September 30, 2017

Corrupt Cambodian Regime Fails MOU Criteria

September 28, 2017

Major Case on Chinese and Cypriot Coins Should Be Heard

September 25, 2017

Commentary: Public Monuments – Beyond Charlottesville

September 25, 2017

US Renews Mali MOU, Blocks 19-20th C Imports

September 22, 2017

Egypt Policies: Finders Keepers to Death Penalty

September 21, 2017

No EU problem with terrorist antiquities, so let’s legislate for it

September 20, 2017

Syrian Museum Wants Art Looted By Syrian Soldiers Back

September 15, 2017

Viking Warrior Women – Myth or Reality?

September 14, 2017

Preservation Pioneer: Nancy Hatch Dupree

September 12, 2017

Update: Stonehenge Tunnel Gets Official Green Light

September 8, 2017

Rome’s “Ketchup City” Found Beneath the Waves

August 30, 2017

Hobby Lobby, the Antiquities Mess and Need for Reform

August 29, 2017

EU Regulations Use Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut

August 27, 2017

Key Issues in Return of Benin Artifacts

August 24, 2017

Facts on Terrorism and the Art Trade

August 21, 2017

Teaching Racial Diversity in the Ancient World

August 20, 2017

Art Dealer Foundation Supports Native ‘Soul of Nations’

August 20, 2017

Texan Puts Up a Fight for Tyrannosaur Head

August 18, 2017

French Scientists Reveal “True Colors” of Sainte-Chapelle Apostles

August 18, 2017

Restrictive German Cultural Property Law Now In English

August 10, 2017

Qatar Works to Preserve Sudan’s Monuments

August 10, 2017

Neglect of Egypt’s Antiquities Bigger Issue Than Theft

August 10, 2017

Ancient Roots of Wine-making at Cite du Vin

August 6, 2017

Archaeology Proxy for Politics in Turkey

August 4, 2017

“Little Pompeii” Found Outside Vienne, France

August 1, 2017

Philippine’s Duterte Demands Bells Back

July 31, 2017

Seizure at Met Interrupts Repatriation

July 25, 2017

Congress Holds CPAC Accountable

July 24, 2017

Indian Monuments Threatened By Removal of Legal Protections

July 20, 2017

Hobby Lobby Breaks the Rules

July 18, 2017

UNESCO Declares Tomb of Patriarchs to be Palestinian World Heritage Site

July 14, 2017

Colombia Seeks Bids for Salvage of $1 Billion Shipwreck

July 12, 2017

American-Libyan Jews Seek Rights to Heritage

July 11, 2017

Tuareg Art and Crafts May Be Next on US Embargo List

July 10, 2017

Due Diligence: Access Denied to Data on Stolen Art

June 30, 2017

Broken Promises, Dirty Dealings by Tongan Government

June 14, 2017

Norwegian Library to Bring African Literature to a World Audience

May 27, 2017

Doggie Boondoggle

May 24, 2017

Paradigm Shift as Dealers Partner With Tribes

May 22, 2017

Now That Jews Are Gone, Egypt Says It Will Restore Sites

April 27, 2017

Cleveland Museum Deserves Full Credit for Researching and Returning Head of Drusus to Italy

April 24, 2017

Nations Meet in Alternative Universe in Which They Support Cultural Tolerance

April 14, 2017

Dikers’ Native American Art at the Met

April 13, 2017

Making Life Miserable for Museums, Again?

April 11, 2017

Innovative Antiquities Sale by Toledo Museum

March 31, 2017

A Journey with Ceremonial Objects

March 29, 2017

Benin Repatriation Request Raises Tough Questions

March 25, 2017

Vikan: New Culture of Antiquities Collecting

February 18, 2017

Exhibition: Native Fashion Now!

February 7, 2017

Industry Behemoths Set Voluntary Rules for Art Business

January 31, 2017

Antiquities Coalition Proposes “Pollution Tax” on Art Trade

January 30, 2017

Pandora’s Big Disappointment

January 29, 2017

Court Says Statue 600 years in Japan Should Go to to Korean Temple

December 11, 2016

Stunning Bronze Age Golden Torc and Roman Villa Highlight 2015 PAS Reports

November 20, 2016

Native Alaskan Craftsmen Suffer from Ivory Laws

November 15, 2016

India on Kapoor Repatriation: “We brought back what was genuine, and left the rest there.”

September 15, 2016

North Dakota Pipeline Destroys Native Burials

September 14, 2016

News from Turkey: Finding an Ancient Statue, Flooding an Antique Town, and Cancelling a Modern Art Biennal

August 13, 2016

Michael Jackson Lived Again

August 10, 2016

After Pressure, Germany Announces Reform of Limbach Commission

July 30, 2016

Collecting ancient art, an old tradition under attack.

June 21, 2016

Mica Ertegun Gift to Restore Edicule in Church of Holy Sepulchre

June 7, 2016

History-Changing Discoveries in London Construction Site

April 30, 2016

Celebrating 15 Years of Import Restrictions?

April 20, 2016

Satellite Dishes on Ancient Tombs

April 14, 2016

German Cultural Assets Protection Law Moves Inexorably Forward

April 8, 2016

The Dolorous Case of Pakistan’s Museums

March 31, 2016

Bad Policy: Antiquities Coalition Draft “#CultureUnderThreat Task Force Report”

March 30, 2016

Instant Conviction of Japanese Dealer

February 24, 2016

Commentary: Sarah Parcak’s TED Prize – Can International Crowdsourcing Replace Source Country Commitment?

January 31, 2016

Two 7500 BC Skeletons Go to Tribal Organization

January 15, 2016

Naman Ahuja on the People’s Museum

December 17, 2015

Archaeologists Argue Over Source of Stonehenge’s Ancient ‘Bluestones’

December 15, 2015

Battle over Rights to Richest Shipwrecked Treasure

July 27, 2015

French Government Reverses Donation to Guimet of Chinese Gold Ornaments

May 28, 2015

Turkey’s AK Party Nails Giant Election Poster to Valens Aqueduct

May 11, 2015

From THE HINDU: A Stunning Opinion by Dr. Vishakha N. Desai

May 10, 2015

Heads Roll at Indian Museums

February 25, 2015

Tomb of Turkish Founding Grandfather Relocated

April 18, 2014

Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy: Accountability, Transparency, and Legal Certainty

April 10, 2014

Mark B. Feldman: Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy

March 29, 2013

No More “Good Provenance”