February 23, 2020
…Monastery Church, by Pietro Gasparri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hHopGUnZNs, Courtesy Elizabeth Bolman. I’m currently collaborating with Adam Lowe of Factum Arte. He’s a polymath who is making copies of objects of cultural heritage…
July 19, 2020
…1. [10] Id. at, 54-55, see also Figures 4.3–4.4, 55, 56 [11] Id. at 67. [12] Steve Swann, Facebook bans ‘loot-to-order’ antiquities trade, BBC News, 23 June 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53140615 [13]…
August 1, 2021
…a group.” Past trials involving cultural heritage at the ICC Screenshot from CNN video ‘Pure evil’: Satellite images show destroyed Uyghur graves in China,” report by CNN’s Matt Rivers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSQm1ubstA…
September 27, 2023
…2008), available at https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-colorful-checkered-career-in-antiquities-3190998.php (last visited September 25, 2023). 3 Id. Next Installment: Why Is Our Government Recognizing the Rights of Authoritarian Governments to Cultural Heritage of Displaced Religious and…
January 4, 2018
…communicating an artwork’s value: money. More often than not in ‘heist’ films, a museum employee, security guard, or passing visitor will audibly comment on the artwork’s monetary value early in…
April 21, 2021
…& Hogenberg, 1576. From: Beschreibung und Contrafactur der Vornembster Stät der Welt. Liber Primus. Köln, 1572. Public domain. The Draft Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) and Annexes to Commission Implementing Regulation…
November 23, 2020
…Have an Ethical Obligation to Report Looting? 22:45-25:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nwMxkROgk&feature=emb_logo [6] Modeling the Antiquities Trade in Iraq and Syria (MANTIS), University of Chicago, https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/mantis [7] Fiona Rose-Greenland, Inside ISIS’ looted antiquities…
September 5, 2021
Cultural Property News thanks author Peter K. Tompa for making possible the following abridgment of commentary submitted to Congress in 2004 as commentary on proposed legislation introduced but not passed…
April 28, 2024
…coercion. Residents faced intimidation and were told they risked losing their land or even imprisonment if they resisted. Despite claims that the relocation was voluntary, residents felt compelled to comply…
June 3, 2024
…someone’s home. Kossuth Meteorite, Octahedrite from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rusted edge of a polished and acid-etched slice; private collection. While most meteors come from asteroids, some…