June 27, 2018
…efforts and further endangering museum collections. By US NOAA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In the immediate aftermath of the storms, as people reeled from the loss of life and…
November 3, 2019
…the antiquities business community in the trafficking of looted objects. [1] Author Nikos Passas identifies a popular means of transfer of money through the hawala system as invoicing valueless…
July 2, 2023
…Hollywood movies as plot devices. For example, in the opening scene of Citizen Kane, the protagonist dies while holding a Perzy globe featuring a wintery log cabin, which then drops…
March 12, 2018
…Jewish and Christian communities, they say that their rights over their own communities’ cultural heritage, rescued from a hostile government, surely should be protected, and acknowledged to be their own….
March 19, 2019
…for assessing risks. [Ed. See the RAM Due Diligence Toolkit – Explanatory Notes.] Service industries that perform due diligence are already advertising services [Ed. and also pushing for passage of…
July 29, 2024
[1] English Great Room of the Late Tudor Period, 1550-1603, E-1, Narcissa Niblack Thorne (Designer), 1932-1937, Scale 1 inch = 1 foot, Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, Art Institute…
April 28, 2024
…cladding plan abandoned The January 2024 restoration plan for the Menkaure pyramid, one of the three great pyramids at Giza, has been abandoned completely. Menkaure’s pyramid, unique among the Giza…
February 25, 2024
…prosecutor-general assigned a committee to determine the statue’s authenticity but despite the gallery owner’s testimony, they also were unable to decide this, and transferred the object to the archaeological laboratory…
January 31, 2020
…important exhibitions and research projects in the last decade have focused on Fijian art and culture. The Fijian Art Research Project, a three-year collaboration by the Sainsbury Research Unit (SRU)…
February 27, 2020
…of 1978 (AIRFA). [1] “Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture: The Trump Administration’s Construction of the Border Wall,” February 26, 20202 oversight hearing, https://naturalresources.house.gov/hearings/destroying-sacred-sites-and-erasing-tribal-culture-the-trump-administrations-construction-of-the-border-wall [2] For a video of…