September 24, 2019
…in 2018, up 6%, Artsy, March 8, 2019: https://bit.ly/2UKBaZA [5] FBI Art Theft Program video with Bonnie Magness-Gardiner, Link includes transcript: https://bit.ly/2ALcxQY [6] See https://bit.ly/2QqaIC0 [7] European Commission – Fact…
September 30, 2020
ICOM President Resigns As Delegates Reject New ‘Definition” of Museums (08-01-2020) Nine members of ICOM’s committee and executive board resigned after what several termed a “rather catastrophic failure of good…
October 17, 2020
…Office said: “We have raised our concerns about this issue with the relevant authorities in the Turkish Government.” [i] See, for example, Miller, Naomi. (1999). Seeds, charcoal and archaeological context:…
January 9, 2021
…inability of UNESCO to actually supervise and protect an ever-growing network of Tank at Hampi, India, ASI monument number N-KA-B49, photo by Jonathan Freundlich, 13 November 2011, Creative Commons Attribution-Share…
October 31, 2021
…research also led her to explore how foreign archaeologists became complicit in the authoritarian rulers’ retelling of history and use of the past riches for diplomatic purposes. She writes: “Ali…
October 28, 2021
…Affairs will communicate with the competent authorities to provide us with the documents of ownership of all Egyptian antiquities, to study them and determine whether they came out of Egypt…
September 27, 2022
…part of ICOM’s revision of its Code of Ethics for Museums. ICOM issued its most forceful statement so far condemning Russia: “ICOM strongly condemns the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian cultural…
March 1, 2023
…the place, and seemingly have little to do with artistic merit or even common sense. For example, on November 23, 2022, “Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT # 232” sold for…
June 18, 2023
…President Donald Trump to exit UNESCO completely amidst allegations of anti-Israel bias. At that time, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley described UNESCO as a “chronic embarrassment” for taking actions such as…
April 28, 2024
…All the objects were withdrawn from the auction for further research. Ancient Greek ceramic from Zimmermann Collection, photo Christie’s. Tsirogiannis says that he found documents in Becchina’s seized archive indicating…