April 22, 2018
This is a great season for textile lovers in Washington D.C. Not one, but two major new textile exhibitions opened recently, one at the Smithsonian’s Freer-Sackler Gallery, the other at…
October 9, 2019
…the Committee for Cultural Policy stems from his desire to preserve artworks from Tibet for both spiritual and scholarly understanding and his commitment to free public access to art. To…
April 10, 2014
…[9] Supra, n. 2. [10] Supra, n. 3. [11] Testimony, Deputy Legal Adviser, Mark B. Feldman, Hearing on H.R. 5643 and S. 2261, Subcomm. Int’l Trade, Senate Finance Comm., 95th…
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
…10, 2017. Catalan independence referendum, 2017, Photo by Robert Bonet [CC BY-SA 3.0 es (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons. After the October vote, Rajoy had invoked Article 155 of Spain’s Constitution…
January 18, 2020
…their greatest partner for helping to retrieve stolen or illegally excavated items. This is common sense. Trump’s statement highlights the plight of cultural heritage in general. Objects are just as…
October 20, 2022
…source of information about our past will be lost forever”. [1] The original Spanish version can be found at https://www.lanacion.com.ar/editoriales/camino-a-un-desastre-cultural-nid26092022/ Ceremonial object found with Llullaillaco mummies, Museo de Arqueologia de…
January 31, 2017
…a fund for cleanup, or cigarette companies pay into a fund for healthcare costs or other compensation to smokers. The policy brief appears to find the art trade intrinsically harmful….
July 18, 2017
…flared at the UNESCO committee meeting, held in Warsaw, Poland. Ordinarily, UNESCO voting is made public, but Poland, Croatia and Jamaica asked this vote to be by secret ballot. Israeli…
August 29, 2017
…goods exported from another signatory member of the 1970 UNESCO Convention may be exported legally from that signatory member into the EU. (An example given by the EU Commission is…