February 27, 2020
…Testimony to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee on the Proposed MOU Between the USA and Jordan Mataveri Airport, Easter Island, By Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org, via Wikimedia Commons. Chile See: Chile’s…
May 27, 2021
…read: item made for commercial purposes. The legislation also grants Tribes’ ability to halt export even of solely commercial items if Tribes challenge this presumption. ATADA urges the Committee to…
July 28, 2022
…[2] Statement by Rabbi Eric Fusfield before Cultural Property Advisory Committee, Public hearing on Libyan MOU renewal, U.S. Department of State, July 26, 2022, also available https://www.regulations.gov/comment/DOS-2022-0015-0030. [3] Statement by…
October 24, 2018
…Unique Architectural Accomplishment Nabu Museum, https://www.nabumuseum.com/home. The Nabu Museum collection is housed in a multistory, weathering steel, rusty-orange patinated, stylized cuboid structure. The building would be heavy and foreboding without…
February 24, 2016
…Age sites from the slight unnatural variations in the landscape below perceptible with the human eye. Image: Dr. Sarah Parcak, author Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/15028192448/…
April 10, 2014
…though, let me congratulate Bill Pearlstein on the comprehensive White Paper he prepared for the Committee for Cultural Policy addressing the current state of affairs. While I do not share…
July 27, 2015
…by a Chinese bidder who then refused to pay. The zodiac heads were from the Yves St. Laurent-Pierre Berge collection. Pinault’s companies have significant business interests in China. Images: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/Gold-ornaments-returned-from-France-go-on-display-in-Gansu/shdaily.shtml…
December 29, 2017
…have continued without delay.) On December 30, Puigdemont demanded that the newly-elected Catalonian government reinstate him and all other elected officials. Photo credit: Rosa Matas, http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/lleida/20171203/433330601164/museu-lleida-7-piezas-expuestas-sijena.html. According to Sebastiaan Faber…
October 5, 2017
…on Pompeii as a place of the contemporary.” Reproduction of a statue of a faun in Pompeii.[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eugeniayjulian/ Eugenia & Julian] Title: Casa del Fauno, Pompei, Italy. Taken on: 2005-06-25. Everything…
August 13, 2016
…public. (Try Googling “Chuck Norris” and “Self-Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh.” It’s not nearly old enough to qualify, but you get the idea.) Images: Heliogabalus, Musei Capitolini, Rome; Eminem, http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/eminem/images/228036/title/eminem-photo;…