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Aug 4

Read the latest in our "Careful Collector" series regarding the ATADA Voluntary Returns Program, which has led to the return of over 400 hundred artifacts to tribal communities.

#culturalproperty #tribalculturalresources #culturalpropertynewsletter #tribalproperty #ATADA

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Jul 24

For 300 years, human beings were traded in exchange for copper manillas that were melted down to make the world-famous Benin bronzes. The Restitution Study Group, a non-profit dedicated to securing justice for the transatlantic enslavement of African people, is filing an appeal in its lawsuit against the Smithsonian Institution in the D.C. courts, arguing for the rights of descendants of slaves trafficked by the Benin Kingdom to have access to the bronzes where they live, and to have their true story told. Earlier this summer, Kate Fitz Gibbon interviewed Restitution Study Group founder and director Deadria Farmer-Paellmann and noted civil rights and constitutional law attorney Bruce Afran for the American Bar Association, International Law Section, Art and Cultural Heritage Law Committee. Read the full transcript on our website.

#culturalpropertynewsletter #culturalproperty #beninbronzes #benin #aba #restitution #internationallaw #artlaw

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Jul 21

Cultural Property updates from Israel: the Israel Antiquities Authority has implemented a new campaign to encourage the public to turn over any state-owned antiquities, while archaeologists ask to halt excavations as it is currently difficult to keep up with the flow of antiquities – or to begin to catalog the vast numbers of objects from past excavations. Read more on our website, link in bio!

#israelnationaltreasures #antiquities #culturalpropertynewsletter #culturalpropertylaw #israel

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Jul 16

Follow us at @culturalpolicycommittee for art news and commentary.

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Jul 16

Have you heard of the pop music artist @nameweephoto ? We take a look at the Chinese-Malaysian rapper and his controversial, but powerful art. Read more about Namewee on our website.

#namewee #WeeMengChee #chinesemalaysian #rap #hiphop #culturalpropertynewsletter

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Jul 12

We take a look back at the 2020 national security law passed in Hong Kong as well as other ways art and culture have been under attack. Read our summary on our website.

#culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #hongknog #art #censorship #glorytohongkong

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Jul 11

The People’s Republic of China voted on June 30, 2023 to deny U.S. re-entry to UNESCO membership, Just weeks before, China had pressured the U.S. State Department to renew a bilateral cultural property agreement under a U.S. law implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention, despite China’s blatant destruction of minority heritage and genocidal repression in Xinjiang and Tibet. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.

#PRC #unesco #xinjiang #tibet #culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter

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Jul 10

Former staff and supporters of the outstandingly quirky Mütter Museum in Philadelphia are raising concerns about its future, saying that an overzealous director and CEO are attempting to change its unique character by sanitizing controversial exhibits and removing online videos from public view. Read more on our website.

#müttermuseum #art #culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #philadelphia

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Jul 10

The UK Ivory Act could soon apply to hippo, sperm whale, narwhal, orca and walrus. Read our analysis on our website; link in bio.

#ivory #culturalproperty #ukivoryact #culturalpropertynewsletter #environmentallaw #artlaw #internationallaw

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Jul 7

The Ethnological Museum of Berlin has officially handed back two wooden sacred masks belonging to the Kogi (Cogui or Kágaba, meaning cougar) people, an indigenous community descended from the pre-Columbian Tairona culture who live in the highlands of the Sierra Navada de Santa Marta in present day Colombia. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.

#culturalpropery #culturalpropertynews #kogipeople #ethnologicalmuseum #berlin #art #artlaw #culturalpropertylaw

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Jul 3

Earlier this spring, three symbolically important fragments of the hundreds of scattered sculptures from the Parthenon were gifted by the Vatican in an “ecumenical donation” to the Archbishopric of Athens as a gesture of friendship. Read more about the gift on our website.

#culturalpolicy #culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #vatican #greece #parthenon #artlaw #internationallaw

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Jun 28

Earlier this month, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that over 1000 gold objects from Ukraine that had been on loan to Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum in 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea, should be returned to Ukraine. Read more about the important decision on our site.

#culturalproperty #artlaw #heritage #ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #alliedpiersonmuseum #museumlaw #culturalpropertynews

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Jun 15

Recently, the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) met in a virtual public session to hear testimony regarding the proposed renewals of MOUs with Bulgaria and the People’s Republic of China. Read our summary of the session on our website, which included voices for and against the renewals.

#culturalproperty #culturalpropertynewsletter #culturalpropertyadvisorycommittee #CPAC #PRC #Bulgaria #Uyghurs

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Jun 13

What kinds of strategies does the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit use and what are the dangers of these strategies? Read the full article in the linktree in our bio.

#culturalproperty #antiquities #carefulcollector #collecting #art

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Jun 5

Earlier this spring, the principal of Tallahassee Classical School (TCS) in Florida reluctantly resigned from her role after a small number of parents resented not having been informed in advance that a lesson plan for sixth-grade students contained "controversial" material: a photograph of Michelangelo’s David. Read our defense of David, and stand up, like the young David did, to refuse to let present-day Philistines run our schools. Link in bio!

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