April 30, 2016
…banning the importation of ancient art from Italy. Since when are continuing restrictions on the free flow of art into the US regarded as cause for celebration? Congress recognized that…
July 13, 2020
…downloaded for free. The report is issued under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International Public License, which should be read in its entirety. In summary, you are free to share, copy…
April 2, 2021
…retold, accompanied by the stories of how freed Black community members went on to impact history. As Old Salem’s Director of Moravian Research, Martha Hartley explained to the Visit Winston-Salem…
January 3, 2023
THE COMMITTEE FOR CULTURAL POLICY, INC. Post Office Box 4881, Santa Fe, NM 87502 December 2022 Dear Friends, The Committee for Cultural Policy is a small but active think tank…
September 1, 2023
…[3] “Sir Ralph Moor [the first high commissioner of the British Southern Nigeria Protectorate] reported in 1897 that even after the capture of Benin City by the British, so incomprehensible…
July 1, 2020
…Chairman of the Commission stated that “no one should be upset about it… compensation was paid [at the time of Mehmet the Conqueror].” Photo: Mark Ahsman, Dec 2013, Wikimedia Commons…
June 21, 2024
…German collections; there are no paintings of this kind in Berlin museums, according to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The Königliches Museum auf der Spreeinsel, today’s Altes Museum, opened in…
January 16, 2021
…checking to ensure that antiquities are not illegally shipped from Egypt: the Egyptian Postal Authority, customs, and a special committee of inspectors who check parcels for stolen antiquities. The journalists…
September 27, 2022
…known as the “Poet and Sirens” was delivered by the J. Paul Getty Museum to representatives from Italy, including General Roberto Riccardi, Commander of the Carabinieri’s Command for the Protection…
April 18, 2018
…faith” and that it was “virtually impossible to do things backwards.” That is not to say that items that were actually stolen from an institution or from other owners, or…