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Kate Fitz Gibbon
Cleveland Museum of Art Fights Back Against NY DA’s Seizure of Famous Bronze Statue
UK: Reparations and Repatriation at ‘Reckoning with History’
Careful Collector No. 32 – What the Heck is It?
Museum of the Bible Exhibition Unveils Afghan Liturgical Quire
Brazil Opens Two Indigenous Museums
Tens of thousands of artifacts looted from Sudan National Museum
Ukraine – Russians steal ancient statues from Mariupol, looted artwork spotted in Crimea, Customs seizes medieval sabers.
Netherlands to Indonesia – Objects Taken in Puputan Badung War Returned
Afghanistan: Taliban Ban Images of ‘Living Things’ & Promise to Preserve Ancient Buddhist Site By Digging Copper Mine Under It
Off-Road Racing Destroys Chilean Geoglyphs While AI Enables Hundreds of New Finds in Peru
UK’s National Museum Directors’ Council Issues Open Letter on Museum Protests
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Hearing to Restitution Study Group on Benin Bronzes
Careful Collector No. 31 – It’s the Political Season So Why Not Collect Political Memorabilia?
CPAC Hearing Ignores Realities in Lebanon, Mongolia, and El Salvador
El Salvador Seeks MOU Renewal Despite 37 Year History of Import Restrictions, Corruption, and Government Neglect
Lebanon in Chaos: Will US Sign Heritage Agreement?
The Internet’s Favorite Sumerian
China 2024: The Smothered Screams of Muslim Genocide
Elizabeth Weiss & the New Archaeology Wars
Careful Collector #30: Sending Art and Antiquities to Failed States No Recipe for Preservation
ATADA Award Goes to Robert Gallegos, Founder of Voluntary Returns Program
Neolithic News: Stonehenge Tunnel Plan Terminated
Moundbuilders Golf Course Now Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
UK’s Horniman Museum Benin Repatriation Re-examined
Careful Collector No. 29 – Importing Antiquities, Art and Collectibles into the EU Becoming Far More Challenging
Italy: Excess Art to Colossal Naples Museum – Carabinieri Revel in Seizure of 105,000 Artifacts
A Closer Look at the Portable Antiquities Scheme
World’s Oldest Shipwreck Discovered in Mediterranean
Berlin’s Altes Museum Returns Collection of Apulian Vases
Careful Collector No. 28 – Liberated Art Returns Home
Ukraine Requests 1.4 Million Years’ Import Restrictions on Art
Commentary: Problems of Universal Art
Ecuador: Turmoil, Neglect, and a History of Legal Looting
Careful Collector #27 – It Came from Outer Space
Dirty Details: British Museum Presses Case Against Former Curator Peter Higgs
A Fungus Among Us at Persepolis & Pyramid Cladding at Menkaure Abandoned
WMF Turns Over Angkor Wat to APSARA Despite Human Rights Concerns Over Government Control
Greek Ceramics Pulled from Auction Show That Archives Should Be Made Public
Met Museum Aims at Cultural Reconciliation in Returning Treasures to Thailand
Careful Collector #26 – The Benefits of Dealing with Established Trade Associations
Betrayal of Tibet: DA’s Controversial Returns to China
Congressman Joe Wilson Demands Investigation into State Department’s Cultural Policy Missteps
In and Out Artworks – Sculptures from America’s Greatest Collections in Flux
Careful Collector No. 25 – Third Party Grading Services and Slabs: Good for Collecting or Not?
Afghanistan Sites Demolished by Bulldozers
NY’s Rubin Museum Transitions to ‘Museum Without Walls’
Europe: Alarming Future of the Art, Antiquity and Archaeology Market
Ethiopian Shield from 1868 Battle of Maqdala Withdrawn from Auction
Souvenir Costs French Tourist 8 Days in Luxor Jail
2024 India Report: U.S. Art Blockade Inevitable Despite Destruction and Neglect
Careful Collector No. 24 – William Penn Still Stands Tall in Philadelphia
Commentary: Renewal of Algerian MOU
The New NAGPRA: ‘traditional knowledge’ in, artifacts out.
Careful Collector No. 23 – Are Warranties Worth Anything?
China Doubles Down to Crush Islamic Culture and Identity
At Great Expense, Manhattan DA Returns Fakes to Lebanon
Did NY Asst. DA Bogdanos Return a Legally Owned Object to Greece?
Careful Collector No. 22 – Your Tax Dollars at Work
Law? What law? CPAC Ignores Statute in New ‘Evidence Free’ MOU with India
Why Is The Manhattan D.A.’S Office Publishing Data It Knows To Be Untrue?
Careful Collector No. 21 – Ancient Coins as Teaching Tools for Kids
Oct-Sept 2023 Short Reads: Met Museum Returns, China Goes Digital, Michael Ward Accepts Plea, and Spurious Scythians Seized in Spain
UNESCO Update: Stamping Out Cat Juggling Again?
The British Museum is still the greatest museum in the world.
Korea’s Supreme Court Resolves Decade-long Dispute Over Stolen Buddhist Statue
Cleveland Museum of Art Fights Back Against NY DA’s Seizure of Famous Bronze Statue
Legal Head of Italian Culture Ministry: ‘Fiendishly extensive’ proofs bar imports.
Careful Collector No. 20 – Why Is Our Government Recognizing the Rights of Authoritarian Governments to Cultural Heritage of Displaced Religious and Ethnic Minorities?
Armenians Racing to Save Heritage in Karabakh
Careful Collector No. 19 – The Life and Times of Trail-Blazing Antiquities Dealer Leo Patterson
Misuse of U.S. Heritage Law: State Department Seeks Blockade on Nepalese Art
U.S. Signs MOU with Yemen. This Time, No Testimony Allowed.
Egypt’s Jewish Restoration Projects: Seized Geniza Still Missing
Return of Benin Bronzes: Why are the victims of slavery hushed up?
Cairo’s Historic Cemeteries: Erasing the Dead Past
Honduras Wants Import Restrictions After 20 Years Noncompliance With U.S. Law
Alice Kandell Gives Major Collection of Tibetan Art to Minneapolis
Careful Collector No. 18 – Resetting the Collecting Narrative
The Myth of the “recovery” of Argentina’s Act of the Declaration of Independence
Careful Collector No. 17 – ATADA Voluntary Returns Program for Native American Artifacts
Benin Bronzes Lawsuit Against Smithsonian: Deadria Farmer-Paellmann & Bruce Afran Interview
Careful Collector No. 16 – Let it Snow in a Globe – Paige’s Accumulation Becomes a Collection
Israel Asks Citizens to Turn In Antiquities – Archaeologists Ask to Stop Excavations
Hong Kong: Laws Imperil Culture From Art to Anthems
Pop Music Against Oppression
Controversy Roils “Disturbingly Informative” Mütter Museum
China Seeks Cultural Protection But Nixes US UNESCO Membership
EU Action Plan Replays Bogus Claims About Art Market
Law Note: UK Ivory Act Expanded
Art Moves: Kogi Sacred Masks Go from Germany to Colombia
Art Moves: Three Vatican Parthenon Fragments go to Greek Archbishopric, then Acropolis Museum
Law Note: Netherlands Court Rules Crimean Gold Must Go To Ukraine
Voices Pro & Con at CPAC on China and Bulgaria MOUs
Careful Collector No. 15 – World Culture Cop
Is the EU sleepwalking into an art market nightmare?
SPECIAL REPORT: 2023 CHINA MOU – Building China’s Art Monopoly and Destroying Minority Culture and Identity
Careful Collector No. 14: A Collecting Bubble That Burst
Repatriation of Brutus Aureus Highlights Dangers of Overzealous NY DA’s Office to Ancient Coin Collecting
Nigeria Gives Benin Ruler Exclusive Ownership of Bronzes
Can Taliban be Trusted to Preserve Afghan Heritage?
In Defense of David
Careful Collector No. 13: New Collectors from Abroad
Young historian finds medieval gold treasure in the Netherlands
Turkey Loses Guennol Stargazer Appeal. Statue Will Go to Christie’s and Steinhardt.
EU: Death Comes to the Vatican Canon, Rome Archeological Exhibit, Ali Aboutaam Fined after 6 Year Investigation
US Museum News: Brauer Controversial Deaccession & Frankenthaler Grants for Clean Energy
Careful Collector No.12: NFTs- Flash in the Pan or Here to Stay?
State Dept Renews Blockade on Libyan Art, Ignoring Law and Facts
Will U.S. Sign Uzbekistan Art Embargo 50,000 BC to 1917?
Careful Collector No. 11: Orders and Decorations: Can Symbols of Valor be Bought and Sold?
CPAC Report: Coin Collectors Face More Collateral Damage
Cambodia and “Stone Temple Nationalism”
NAGPRA: Major Changes Proposed for 2023 to Native American Repatriation Law
Careful Collector No. 10: The Lifecycle of Collectibles: Different Generations Often Value Different Things
Committee for Cultural Policy 2022 Annual Report
168 Nazca Lines, 35K Syrian Antiquities, No More Golf at Moundbuilder Site and Pompeii’s Sheep are Baaaaack
US Plans Agreements to Block Art from Uzbekistan, Cambodia and North Macedonia
Careful Collector No. 9: Will my African Art be repatriated as reparations for the Colonialist past?
STOP Act Passes: First law restricting export of American art
Comments on UNESCO’s Draft Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property
UNESCO Model Provisions Could End Most Global Trade
Putin Using Martial Law to Legitimate Ukraine Art Looting
Moai on Easter Island Damaged in Arson Fire
The Llullaillaco Mummies
The Careful Collector: What to Do with Your Ivory Keyed Piano?
Restitution Study Group Unable to Stop Smithsonian’s Benin Returns
Where will Benin bronzes go? Nigerian government, Edo Museum or Oba?
Caucasus Heritage Watch: Azerbaijan is Destroying Armenian Heritage
ICOM Condemns Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Heritage
Repatriations: Getty Sirens, Cambodian Sculptures, Jewish Coin, Nepal Stele
The Careful Collector – Why does a French auction house want to know so much about me?
UK Charity Act Opens Door to Restitutions
J’accuse! Georges Lotfi’s Dramatic Open Letter to Bogdanos’ Antiquities Trafficking Unit
Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Masterpieces
The Careful Collector: What’s it Worth? Friends Find Value in Family Heirlooms
Russia’s War Against Ukrainian Culture
The Careful Collector- Fakes and Alterations: Hana Hunts for Vintage Uke with Few Strings Attached
Shorts: Briton in Iraq Released – Yale Gives Up Indian Artifacts – Jewish Manuscript Rescued – Gentileschi Seized
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche
Libyan Jewish Community Fights for Rights to Heritage
Will US Renew Libyan Art Embargo During Civil War?
The Careful Collector: Great Catsby is Life of the Party
Turkey – Hagia Sophia Suffers Serious Damage: Walls Peeled and Marble Tiles Shattered
5 Native Nations Will Manage Bears Ears with Feds
The Careful Collector: Not as Rare as You Might Think!
Only in New Mexico: The Hermit of Hermit’s Peak and a Jewish Tribal Chief
Belgian Blunder: Government Sells Stolen Ife Head for €240
Sacre bleu! Former Louvre president charged in antiquities trafficking case.
Commentary: Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq – The sectarian appropriation of Iraq’s past
Losing the Parthenon Marbles: History, Passion, and Possession
U.S. Weighs Questionable Cultural Property Agreement with Pakistan
The Careful Collector: The Riddle of the Native American Eagle Headdress
Mes Aynak: Dark Days for Afghanistan’s Buddhist Heritage
The Careful Collector: Don’t Import Buyer’s Remorse
“Who ordered the borscht?” When a State Steals Culture, Others Pay the Bill.
Egypt’s Antiquities Authority Seizes Geniza from Jewish Cemetery
EU Parliament Resolution Condemns Azerbaijan’s Erasure of Armenian History
CINOA-Art Market Demands Fundamental Review of Law Making
Mali Government Wants U.S. Blockade on Art as Russian Mercenaries Secure Regime
Bamiyan: What Lasted for 1500 Years Will be Gone in Ten
U.S. Treasury Report: Key Findings on Money Laundering and Terror Finance in Art Trade
Citizen Activists Want Nepalese Art Back
Vance Caps Career: Steinhardt Gives Up $70 Million in Antiquities
2021 Cultural Agreements Deny Access to Art
The Lost World of Eastern Turkestan: A Photographic Journey to the Past
Whistleblower Fired: UN Human Rights Council Gave Dissidents’ Names to China
Uyghur Human and Cultural Rights: Forced Labor Prevention Act and Shocking Holocaust Museum Report
Gold Ewer with Hollywood History Delivered to Turkey
Roman Busts Found & 45,000 Skeletons Reburied in UK Rail Project
‘Picture Cave’ Site of Ancient Native Pictographs Auctioned
Mexico Establishes Agency to Seek Antiquities on Carabinieri Model
Nation-Building with Archaeology: Iraq, Syria and Libya
CENSORED: Cartoons and Ancient Conquerors in China
Dutch Court: Scythian Gold from Crimea Should Go to Ukraine
Trade Delivers Reality Check to Money Laundering Regulators
Germany Funds €600,000 NEXUD AI App for Antiquities
Lebanon, Abomey, Bishop Aukland, and Afghanistan
Peru Asks to Extend 25 Year Long Art Blockade
Art Market Organizations Stand Together Against Illicit Trade
The Real Looting of Afghanistan: Pit Mining vs Heritage
Afghanistan’s 4000 Years of Cross-Border Empires and Trade
The Evolution and Deconstruction of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage Laws
Afghanistan’s Heritage: A Former Government, the Taliban, and a Questionable Blockade
Afghanistan Ethnographic Art: Turkoman Embroidery
Coins of Afghanistan – Documenting History and Trade
Pashtunwali: Pashtun Traditional Tribal Law in Afghanistan
International Criminal Court: Cultural Heritage & Genocide
UNESCO Threatens Stonehenge with At-Risk Status
Future UK Ban on Hippo, Narwhal, Whale, and Walrus Ivories?
The Strange History of the Torlonia Marbles
A Tale of Two Seizures: The Carabinieri TPC
Around the Mediterranean: discoveries, ancient economies and national politics
Turkish MoU Will Devastate Minorities, Bolster Erdoğan Regime
Archaeological Discovery Points to Long-lost Settlement of Sarabay in Florida
Bulldozing Culture: China’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Heritage Reveals Genocidal Intent
Interview: Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on Preserving the Bakor Monoliths
Golf vs Ancient Earthworks: Moundbuilders Country Club Case Comes to the ‘Fore’
Thefts, Fakes, and Facsimiles: Preserving the Bakor Monoliths of Eastern Nigeria
Sisi’s Parade of Absolute Rulers – Celebration of Autocracy Opens Egyptian Museum
CircArt and the British Museum – A great opportunity wasted.
Controversial Bill on Export of Native American Art Before Congress
April May 2021 Repatriation Digest
Setback for Planned Mega-Resort and Amusement Park at Angkor Wat
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 1
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 2
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 3
Critical Comments Rain Down on Draft EU Regulations
MOU Backstory: How Cultural Property Agreements with Authoritarian Middle Eastern Governments are Made
Brucemore: Directing Crisis Recovery of an Historic Home and Landscape
Is ICE Writing Its Own Laws? The Curious Case of the Chandler Museum
Old Salem Museums & Gardens: How a Living Museum in the South Addresses the History of Slavery
NETCHER Project: 194 Recommendations Locked in Unreality
CINOA Report Blasts False Information on Art Trade
Argam Ayvazyan: Spy–Researcher For Nakhichevan Armenian Culture
Albania Wants US Art Embargo But Where is the Art?
Egypt’s Brutal Regime Wants to Renew US Blockade on Art; Claims to Protect Heritage & Culture
Art and Abolition: Art Objects and the Rejection of Slavery
Turkish MOU: Last Minute State Department Deal Sparks Outrage
US Renews Italy’s Quarter-Century Art Embargo – New Morocco MOU Blocks Ancient and Ethnographic Art
UK Not Adopting EU Art and Antiquities Import Rules
The Museum of the Bible: Repatriations, investigations, thefts, and fakes dog DC institution.
Armenian Monuments Threatened After Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh War
Nigeria Welcomes Future Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)
UNESCO Appoints Syria Trust for Development to Heritage Post
Bungling Smugglers: Egypt Seeks Extradition after Trial in Absentia of Former Consul
Anti-Money Laundering Law Goes After Antiquities Trade
Our World Heritage’s Full Year of Events: Rethinking the World Heritage Convention
Bad DIY Idea: Egyptians Digging for Antiquities in Own Homes
CCP/CPN 2020 Year End Report
Major Lilly Endowment Grants to U.S. Museums Center on Religion and Art
UNESCO Marks Convention’s 50th Anniversary with Doctored Photos and Disinformation
Humboldt Forum Collaboration with Tanzania
‘Cute Repatriation’ Prank Brings Fake Beuys Sculpture to Tanzania
Forget history. There is no Genghis Khan.
Berlin’s Museuminsel in the Wake of Vandalism
Hypothetical Hopes for Healing Through Art
Turkey Seizes Ancient Seed Collection in Nationalist Move
Nigeria: Support Cultural Expansion, Not Art Blockade
Gary Vikan: The Holy Shroud, A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
Elias Gerasoulis: A geo-political perspective on the Turkish MoU
August & September: Six Short Stories on Museums, Art and Culture
WCO Reports: Heritage Trafficking Tiny Percentage of Illegal Trade
Cowan’s Auctions Returns Zuni War God to Tribe
Istanbul’s Last Church-Mosque-Museum
Interview with Robert G. Ousterhout: The Preservation and Reconversion of Kariye Camii
Cranach to Corot: AAMD Moratorium Lets Brooklyn Sell Art
State Department to Hear Requests for Import Restrictions on Nigerian, Greek, and Bolivian Art
Rio Tinto: How Australian Law Tolerates Heritage Destruction
China Tariffs Come Back for Real in 2020
Coalition Opposes Cultural Property Requests by Repressive Governments
Smashing Buddhas in Pakistan: Rural Ignorance and Museum Indifference
RAND Corp Report Demolishes Assumptions on Antiquities and Terror
Senate Committee Approves Bill that will Block Native Art Exports
RAND Corporation Report Debunks Facebook & Dark Web Ties to Illegal Antiquities
Reclaiming Tibetan Culture in the Digital Age
New Publication: Ivory 2020 Art and Heritage Law
Hagia Sophia No Longer a Museum: US Should Deny Turkey’s Request for Blockade on Art
Italy Wants 20 Year Art Blockade Expanded to 2025
Turkish Court Decides Hagia Sophia’s Conversion to Mosque
Apsáalooke Women and Warriors in Chicago
Ancient and Ethnographic Art from Colombia Faces Another 5-Year Ban
Rediscovering Old Provenances for Ancient Coins
Citizenship Project – How NY Historical Society Museum Helps Immigrants
St John Simpson Interview: Afghanistan repatriation, Daesh, remote-archaeology and the ILLICID report
Brent Huffman: Mes Aynak Update
Afghanistan 1975 – Before War – Photographs by Françoise Foliot
Arts Council England: Guidelines for Museum Repatriation
Chaco Cultural Region: Public Comment on Management Plan
Virtual Coin Experience: Numismatic Museums and Discovery Databases
The Interview: Adam Lowe of Factum Arte
Hartwig Fischer: Collections entail responsibilities. Notes on a global institution.
Visit Sacred Spaces through Virtual Travel
Costa Rica Seeks U.S. Import Restrictions on Art
Elizabeth S. Bolman: Images from the Red Monastery Church
CCP/CPN 2019 End of Year Report
Tohono O’odham Nation: U.S. Blasts a Monument to Build a Wall
Scholar Identifies Missing Indian Statue in Ashmolean Collection
Elizabeth Bolman Interview: The Red Monastery Church
US Customs Delivers 7 “National Treasure” Coins Worth $200 to Cyprus
Hong Kong Artists’ Political Protests Continue
How Jordanian Import Restrictions Really Happened
Collaborative Exhibit at LACMA – Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific
Five Reasons NOT to Sign Cultural Property Deals with Turkey and Tunisia
Iran or China – Cultural Rights are Human Rights
CINOA: Trump’s Threat to Attack Cultural Sites Raises Broader Questions
Turkey Claims all Art and Artifacts: Centuries of Multicultural History and Trade Denied
CCP & GHA Testify on Blockade on All Art from Tunisia
Turkish Request Alarms Armenians, Greeks, Turkish Jews, Orthodox and Syriac Christians in Diaspora
Controversy: How US Recognizes Middle East Government Ownership of Jewish & Minority Heritage
What’s Next for 2020? Art Blockades, Money Laundering Rules, OFAC Sanctions
What Remains – Ancient Artworks Travel, Inspire, and Survive
End of Year: Federal Management Plans Threaten Bears Ears/Chaco
Safani Gallery of NY Files Lawsuit to Recover “Head of Alexander”
Successful Repatriation: The Utimut Process in Denmark & Greenland
Scandiknavery! Fakes, Fantasy, the Cold War and Cultural Histories
Bill Requiring Antiquities Dealers to Report Transactions Passes House – Expansion to All Art Trade Urged
CCP & GHA Testimony on Yemen’s Request for Cultural Property Restrictions
Morocco Seeks US Import Restrictions on Ancient & Ethnic Art
Jewish community issues urgent call on proposal to Block Yemeni and Moroccan heritage
Uzbekistan Leads the Way in International Collaboration on Cultural Heritage
John Gilmore Ford: Portrait of a Collector
Notorious: Indian Prosecutions and Foreign Repatriation
Never Seen Again? Indian Artifacts in Icon Centers Left to Rot
Turkey: Ilisu Dam Inundates 12,000 Year Old Town in Kurdish Region
The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 1
The international art market as cultural bogeyman, Part 2
US State Department Imposes Embargo on Algerian Cultural Artifacts, Including Rope!
Leonard Cohen, Anyone? Reporting on Illicit ‘Cultural Objects’ is Deceptive
UK Gov’t Query: Is Ban on Warthog, Hippo, Walrus, Whale and Narwhal Necessary?
Chaco Canyon, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears Roundup
2019 STOP Act: Fixing a Flawed Indian Art Bill
Was ILLICID Report ‘Buried’ For Failing to Show Illegal Trade?
Click Here to Enter Nirvana
The Wondrous Cosmos in Medieval Manuscripts
EU Regulation Curtailing Import of Art & Antiquities Now Law
Turkey’s President Wants to Turn Hagia Sophia into a Mosque
African Voices: Muhigirwa Kinyunyi Claude of LUCHA Movement for Change
The Security State and Destruction of Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang
Montana Bill on Indian Cultural Patrimony Fails
Exhibitions and Demonstrations: How Art Museums Connect to the Community
Not Again! 25% Tariff on Chinese Antiques Pending
Expanding the Protecting U.S. Heritage Abroad Act
NAGPRA in Hawaii: Museum and Native Hawaiian Conflicts
Chile’s Application for Import Restrictions to CPAC – Testimony
Testimony to CPAC on Jordan’s Application for Import Restrictions
Asian Studies Association Condemns China’s Incarceration of Turkic Muslims
UNESCO Exposed!
EU 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive Program Notes
Germany Offers $2.17 Million for Ethnographic Provenance Research
Egypt Rejects Accessible Database of Art in Circulation
Discovery at Abydos Shines Light on 19th-20th C Egyptology
EU Parliament Holocaust Restitution Proposal Threatens Circulation of Ancient Art
A Central Asian Cinderella – The Tale of Bibi Seshambe
Bodleian Libraries Oxford Exhibition on Translation Highlights Cross-Cultural Communication
Brazil:: A New President Persecutes the Arts
Superb Rubin Museum Exhibition “Faith and Empire-Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism”
Chaco Canyon Update: One Year Later
Saudis Bomb Heritage Sites-Art Trade Blamed
UK to Change Treasure Act – New Restrictions Proposed
Savoy-Sarr Report on African Art Restitution: A Summary
Crow Museum of Asian Art Collection Donated to University of Texas
Polyresin Indian Gods Made-in-China
Australia Liberalizes Export Laws for Indigenous Art & Antiques
Committee for Cultural Policy 2018 Year-End Report
Italian Court Orders Getty to Return Bronze ‘Victorious Youth’ After Over 40 years
Art Imports to EU Threatened by Draconian Regulation
French Proposal for Restitution of African Art
18 Jewish Organizations Protest MENA Nationalization of Heritage to State Department
Is NAGPRA Irretrievably Broken?
ACCG Seeks Supreme Court Review in Coin Case
A Primer: NAGPRA, ARPA, and the Antiquities Act
2018 RECAP: Dumping Bears Ears Trumps Tribal Consensus
Uncertain Future for Golden Statue Holding Buddhist Mummy
AAIA Challenges Private Ownership of Native American Art
Egypt Demands Review of TEFAF Artworks
National Stolen Property Act: Primary US Cultural Property Law
Mwatana for Human Rights: Destruction of Yemen’s History
Benin Dialog Group: Building and Filling a New Museum in Benin
Are We in for a Flood of “Sleeper” Claims?
Anti-Money Laundering Campaign Trips… over the Truth
Nabu Museum Opens in Lebanon
Bill Introduced to Regulate Export of U.S. Tribal Art
Devotion and Decadence: at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Rockefeller Gifts Bring Indian Art Home to Southwest
An Epic Battle: U.S. v. 3 Knife-Shaped Coins
“Plundered” Artifacts from Aged Missionary’s Collection Go to Colombia
Culture and Fashion: Betrayal is the New Black
UK Law Would Deputize “Ivory Hunters” to Search and Seize
Chinese Art Heists: Purloined Treasures
Rapa Nui Claims British Museum’s Moai Sculpture
Chinese Art and Antiques Dropped from US Tariff List
A Culture Destroyed: China Expunges Uyghur Identity
Mes Aynak: Corruption, Copper and a Nation’s Heritage
No Country for Old Achaemenids
Will Iraqi Jewish Heritage Stay in US?
Nigeria: Kano’s Walls Will Disappear
Update: Up to 25% Tariffs on Chinese Art Will Expand China’s Monopoly
We Don’t Need No Algerian Blockade
Bulgaria and Honduras Import Restrictions Coming Before CPAC
New Import Requirements for Ancient & Ethnographic Art
Mexico: Art in the Time of Restrictive Export Laws
Westminster Abbey Repatriation Claim From Ethiopia
‘Traffic’ Says UK Ivory Antiques Trade Won’t Harm Elephants
CPAC – Building A Wall Against Art
Heritage Responders and Caribbean Museums in Crisis
Maori Mokomokai to Return to New Zealand
Update: Art Trade Reacts to Threatened Bank Secrecy Act
A Forgotten Connection: Rembrandt and the Art of Mughal India
EU Adds Art Dealers to Money Laundering Rules
AAMD Sanctions Museums for Selling Artworks
US Monuments and the Southwestern Cultural Landscape
Whose Truth? NYT Journalist Accused of Stealing Cultural Property
Chilkat Blanket Return: Myths, Legends and Facts
Ethiopia: We Want Our Art Back, Not Long Term Loans
CPAC Testimony: Will US Extend China’s Cultural Monopoly?
Greater Chaco Leases OK’d: Natives, Environmentalists Stunned
A Textile Collector Changes the World
Proposed EU Rules on Asian, Islamic and Antiquities Trade
UK Imposes Strict Ivory Sales Ban
To Repatriate or Not to Repatriate: That is the Question
BLM Failed to Comply with National Historic Preservation Act
Returning African Heritage From Global Museums
Will US Embargo on Art of China & Tibet Be Renewed?
Cultural Property: Rights of Jewish and Christian Minorities
Snow and Ice Archaeology in a Changing World Climate
Visual Politics – Protests and the Art Museum
Thailand Wants Major Statues Collected in 1960s Back from US Museums
Frida Kahlo Barbie Sparks Protests
Art in the Time of Facebook: Prehistoric Sculpture Censored By Social Media
American Jewish Groups Outraged by US Agreement with Libya
Art Dealer Program Brings Over 100 Artifacts Back to Tribes
China & US: Human Rights Versus Cultural Property Claims
Re-Discovering the Classics
Chaco Canyon Update: BLM Delays Leases Affecting Industry, Indians, Archaeologists
Indian and Pacific Island Heritage Disappears Beneath the Waves
Yemen Claims Jewish Religious Artifacts
New York District Attorney Goes After Art Collections
Turkey Bombs 3,000 Year Old Syro-Hittite Site to Rubble
Classical Film-making: Muscles, Gore and Mythical Monsters
EMTs for US Heritage: National Heritage Responders
Salmonella May Have Caused Millions of Aztec Deaths
Museums Can Help to Save the World
‘Historic Environment Scotland’ Tackles Climate Change
Native Visions – Photographs by Don Kirby
Chaco Canyon Exhibit on Indefinite Hold
French Town Seeks Bust Sold By Parish Priest 100+ Years Ago
Getty Paper Challenges Nationalist Cultural Heritage Policies
“I Must Have It!” Art, Crime and Value in Film
Longstanding Federal Policy Threatened by Indian Art Law
Catalonia Seeks Independence: Spain Orders Art Returned
Düsseldorf Mayor Cancels Stern Exhibition – Then Reverses Decision
US Blocks Import of Art and Artifacts from Libya
Germany Denies Immunity for Dead Sea Scrolls
Britain’s Treasure Act Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary
Museums Around the World Display Global Heritage
Bearing False Witness: The Media, ISIS and Antiquities
Mobile Herders or Teenage Warriors from the Steppe?
Puma Graffitis Indian Monuments
Egyptian Coptic Museum Overlooked
Ritual Experience in New London Mithraeum
Bible Museum Opens in US Capitol
Ancestors Return to Indigenous Peoples
Two Sides to Louvre Abu Dhabi Opening
Colorful Classical Statues Still Surprise Us
Pakistan Museum Trashes Ancient Statues
100 Year Negotiation Won’t Bring Books Home
US Gives China License to Loot
CCP Testimony on 2017 STOP Act
Terrorism, Cultural Heritage and the Threat to Museums’ Public Missions
Second opinion: Bad Data on US Cambodia MOU
Economic Policy Not Opium Caused China Collapse
NY Cops Seize Panel with 70 Years Provenance
Tsirogiannis: Master of the Blame-Game Goes After Frieze Masters
New Art Law for India?
Peabody-Essex Artifacts Go Back to Tribes
US Leaves UNESCO
U.S. Withdraws from UNESCO
Antiques & Elephants: Changes to UK Ivory Law
CCP Statement to CPAC on Cambodian MOU
Land Grab at 3rd Millennium Site in Gaza – Hamas versus Heritage
Pompeii’s Director Breaks Archaeological Traditions
Theft of Viking Treasure Devastates Norwegian Museum
US Rescue of Iraqi Jewish Archives Imperiled
Zero, what a Concept!
Corrupt Cambodian Regime Fails MOU Criteria
Major Case on Chinese and Cypriot Coins Should Be Heard
Commentary: Public Monuments – Beyond Charlottesville
US Renews Mali MOU, Blocks 19-20th C Imports
Egypt Policies: Finders Keepers to Death Penalty
No EU problem with terrorist antiquities, so let’s legislate for it
Syrian Museum Wants Art Looted By Syrian Soldiers Back
Viking Warrior Women – Myth or Reality?
Preservation Pioneer: Nancy Hatch Dupree
Update: Stonehenge Tunnel Gets Official Green Light
Rome’s “Ketchup City” Found Beneath the Waves
Hobby Lobby, the Antiquities Mess and Need for Reform
EU Regulations Use Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
Key Issues in Return of Benin Artifacts
Facts on Terrorism and the Art Trade
Teaching Racial Diversity in the Ancient World
Art Dealer Foundation Supports Native ‘Soul of Nations’
Texan Puts Up a Fight for Tyrannosaur Head
French Scientists Reveal “True Colors” of Sainte-Chapelle Apostles
Restrictive German Cultural Property Law Now In English
Qatar Works to Preserve Sudan’s Monuments
Neglect of Egypt’s Antiquities Bigger Issue Than Theft
Ancient Roots of Wine-making at Cite du Vin
Archaeology Proxy for Politics in Turkey
“Little Pompeii” Found Outside Vienne, France
Philippine’s Duterte Demands Bells Back
Seizure at Met Interrupts Repatriation
Congress Holds CPAC Accountable
Indian Monuments Threatened By Removal of Legal Protections
Hobby Lobby Breaks the Rules
UNESCO Declares Tomb of Patriarchs to be Palestinian World Heritage Site
Colombia Seeks Bids for Salvage of $1 Billion Shipwreck
American-Libyan Jews Seek Rights to Heritage
Tuareg Art and Crafts May Be Next on US Embargo List
Due Diligence: Access Denied to Data on Stolen Art
Broken Promises, Dirty Dealings by Tongan Government
Norwegian Library to Bring African Literature to a World Audience
Doggie Boondoggle
Paradigm Shift as Dealers Partner With Tribes
Now That Jews Are Gone, Egypt Says It Will Restore Sites
Cleveland Museum Deserves Full Credit for Researching and Returning Head of Drusus to Italy
Nations Meet in Alternative Universe in Which They Support Cultural Tolerance
Dikers’ Native American Art at the Met
Making Life Miserable for Museums, Again?
Innovative Antiquities Sale by Toledo Museum
A Journey with Ceremonial Objects
Benin Repatriation Request Raises Tough Questions
Vikan: New Culture of Antiquities Collecting
Exhibition: Native Fashion Now!
Industry Behemoths Set Voluntary Rules for Art Business
Antiquities Coalition Proposes “Pollution Tax” on Art Trade
Pandora’s Big Disappointment
Court Says Statue 600 years in Japan Should Go to to Korean Temple
Stunning Bronze Age Golden Torc and Roman Villa Highlight 2015 PAS Reports
Native Alaskan Craftsmen Suffer from Ivory Laws
India on Kapoor Repatriation: “We brought back what was genuine, and left the rest there.”
North Dakota Pipeline Destroys Native Burials
News from Turkey: Finding an Ancient Statue, Flooding an Antique Town, and Cancelling a Modern Art Biennal
Michael Jackson Lived Again
After Pressure, Germany Announces Reform of Limbach Commission
Collecting ancient art, an old tradition under attack.
Mica Ertegun Gift to Restore Edicule in Church of Holy Sepulchre
History-Changing Discoveries in London Construction Site
Celebrating 15 Years of Import Restrictions?
Satellite Dishes on Ancient Tombs
German Cultural Assets Protection Law Moves Inexorably Forward
The Dolorous Case of Pakistan’s Museums
Bad Policy: Antiquities Coalition Draft “#CultureUnderThreat Task Force Report”
Instant Conviction of Japanese Dealer
Commentary: Sarah Parcak’s TED Prize – Can International Crowdsourcing Replace Source Country Commitment?
Two 7500 BC Skeletons Go to Tribal Organization
Naman Ahuja on the People’s Museum
Archaeologists Argue Over Source of Stonehenge’s Ancient ‘Bluestones’
Battle over Rights to Richest Shipwrecked Treasure
French Government Reverses Donation to Guimet of Chinese Gold Ornaments
Turkey’s AK Party Nails Giant Election Poster to Valens Aqueduct
From THE HINDU: A Stunning Opinion by Dr. Vishakha N. Desai
Heads Roll at Indian Museums
Tomb of Turkish Founding Grandfather Relocated
Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy: Accountability, Transparency, and Legal Certainty
Mark B. Feldman: Reform of U.S. Cultural Property Policy
No More “Good Provenance”
October 26, 2024
UK: Reparations and Repatriation at ‘Reckoning with History’
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October 25, 2024
Careful Collector No. 32 – What the Heck is It?
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October 19, 2024
Museum of the Bible Exhibition Unveils Afghan Liturgical Quire
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October 18, 2024
Brazil Opens Two Indigenous Museums
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October 18, 2024
Tens of thousands of artifacts looted from Sudan National Museum
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October 18, 2024
Ukraine – Russians steal ancient statues from Mariupol, looted artwork spotted in Crimea, Customs seizes medieval sabers.
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October 17, 2024
Netherlands to Indonesia – Objects Taken in Puputan Badung War Returned
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October 17, 2024
Afghanistan: Taliban Ban Images of ‘Living Things’ & Promise to Preserve Ancient Buddhist Site By Digging Copper Mine Under It
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October 15, 2024
Off-Road Racing Destroys Chilean Geoglyphs While AI Enables Hundreds of New Finds in Peru
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October 15, 2024
UK’s National Museum Directors’ Council Issues Open Letter on Museum Protests
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October 14, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Hearing to Restitution Study Group on Benin Bronzes
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September 30, 2024
Careful Collector No. 31 – It’s the Political Season So Why Not Collect Political Memorabilia?
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September 30, 2024
CPAC Hearing Ignores Realities in Lebanon, Mongolia, and El Salvador
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September 23, 2024
El Salvador Seeks MOU Renewal Despite 37 Year History of Import Restrictions, Corruption, and Government Neglect
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September 8, 2024
Lebanon in Chaos: Will US Sign Heritage Agreement?
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September 1, 2024
The Internet’s Favorite Sumerian
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August 31, 2024
China 2024: The Smothered Screams of Muslim Genocide
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August 30, 2024
Elizabeth Weiss & the New Archaeology Wars
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August 26, 2024
Careful Collector #30: Sending Art and Antiquities to Failed States No Recipe for Preservation
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August 22, 2024
ATADA Award Goes to Robert Gallegos, Founder of Voluntary Returns Program
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August 11, 2024
Neolithic News: Stonehenge Tunnel Plan Terminated
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August 5, 2024
Moundbuilders Golf Course Now Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
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August 1, 2024
UK’s Horniman Museum Benin Repatriation Re-examined
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July 29, 2024
Careful Collector No. 29 – Importing Antiquities, Art and Collectibles into the EU Becoming Far More Challenging
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June 30, 2024
Italy: Excess Art to Colossal Naples Museum – Carabinieri Revel in Seizure of 105,000 Artifacts
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June 24, 2024
A Closer Look at the Portable Antiquities Scheme
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June 21, 2024
World’s Oldest Shipwreck Discovered in Mediterranean
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June 21, 2024
Berlin’s Altes Museum Returns Collection of Apulian Vases
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June 20, 2024
Careful Collector No. 28 – Liberated Art Returns Home
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June 20, 2024
Ukraine Requests 1.4 Million Years’ Import Restrictions on Art
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June 18, 2024
Commentary: Problems of Universal Art
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June 10, 2024
Ecuador: Turmoil, Neglect, and a History of Legal Looting
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June 3, 2024
Careful Collector #27 – It Came from Outer Space
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April 30, 2024
Dirty Details: British Museum Presses Case Against Former Curator Peter Higgs
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April 28, 2024
A Fungus Among Us at Persepolis & Pyramid Cladding at Menkaure Abandoned
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April 28, 2024
WMF Turns Over Angkor Wat to APSARA Despite Human Rights Concerns Over Government Control
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April 28, 2024
Greek Ceramics Pulled from Auction Show That Archives Should Be Made Public
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April 27, 2024
Met Museum Aims at Cultural Reconciliation in Returning Treasures to Thailand
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April 27, 2024
Careful Collector #26 – The Benefits of Dealing with Established Trade Associations
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April 26, 2024
Betrayal of Tibet: DA’s Controversial Returns to China
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April 25, 2024
Congressman Joe Wilson Demands Investigation into State Department’s Cultural Policy Missteps
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April 25, 2024
In and Out Artworks – Sculptures from America’s Greatest Collections in Flux
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March 31, 2024
Careful Collector No. 25 – Third Party Grading Services and Slabs: Good for Collecting or Not?
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March 30, 2024
Afghanistan Sites Demolished by Bulldozers
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March 5, 2024
NY’s Rubin Museum Transitions to ‘Museum Without Walls’
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March 2, 2024
Europe: Alarming Future of the Art, Antiquity and Archaeology Market
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February 29, 2024
Ethiopian Shield from 1868 Battle of Maqdala Withdrawn from Auction
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February 25, 2024
Souvenir Costs French Tourist 8 Days in Luxor Jail
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February 20, 2024
2024 India Report: U.S. Art Blockade Inevitable Despite Destruction and Neglect
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February 20, 2024
Careful Collector No. 24 – William Penn Still Stands Tall in Philadelphia
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February 17, 2024
Commentary: Renewal of Algerian MOU
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February 12, 2024
The New NAGPRA: ‘traditional knowledge’ in, artifacts out.
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January 31, 2024
Careful Collector No. 23 – Are Warranties Worth Anything?
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January 10, 2024
China Doubles Down to Crush Islamic Culture and Identity
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January 5, 2024
At Great Expense, Manhattan DA Returns Fakes to Lebanon
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December 31, 2023
Did NY Asst. DA Bogdanos Return a Legally Owned Object to Greece?
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December 28, 2023
Careful Collector No. 22 – Your Tax Dollars at Work
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December 16, 2023
Law? What law? CPAC Ignores Statute in New ‘Evidence Free’ MOU with India
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December 6, 2023
Why Is The Manhattan D.A.’S Office Publishing Data It Knows To Be Untrue?
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December 5, 2023
Careful Collector No. 21 – Ancient Coins as Teaching Tools for Kids
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November 1, 2023
Oct-Sept 2023 Short Reads: Met Museum Returns, China Goes Digital, Michael Ward Accepts Plea, and Spurious Scythians Seized in Spain
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November 1, 2023
UNESCO Update: Stamping Out Cat Juggling Again?
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October 31, 2023
The British Museum is still the greatest museum in the world.
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October 27, 2023
Korea’s Supreme Court Resolves Decade-long Dispute Over Stolen Buddhist Statue
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October 26, 2023
Cleveland Museum of Art Fights Back Against NY DA’s Seizure of Famous Bronze Statue
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October 23, 2023
Legal Head of Italian Culture Ministry: ‘Fiendishly extensive’ proofs bar imports.
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October 17, 2023
Careful Collector No. 20 – Why Is Our Government Recognizing the Rights of Authoritarian Governments to Cultural Heritage of Displaced Religious and Ethnic Minorities?
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October 3, 2023
Armenians Racing to Save Heritage in Karabakh
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September 27, 2023
Careful Collector No. 19 – The Life and Times of Trail-Blazing Antiquities Dealer Leo Patterson
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September 17, 2023
Misuse of U.S. Heritage Law: State Department Seeks Blockade on Nepalese Art
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September 7, 2023
U.S. Signs MOU with Yemen. This Time, No Testimony Allowed.
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September 2, 2023
Egypt’s Jewish Restoration Projects: Seized Geniza Still Missing
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September 1, 2023
Return of Benin Bronzes: Why are the victims of slavery hushed up?
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August 31, 2023
Cairo’s Historic Cemeteries: Erasing the Dead Past
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August 29, 2023
Honduras Wants Import Restrictions After 20 Years Noncompliance With U.S. Law
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August 25, 2023
Alice Kandell Gives Major Collection of Tibetan Art to Minneapolis
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August 12, 2023
Careful Collector No. 18 – Resetting the Collecting Narrative
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July 24, 2023
The Myth of the “recovery” of Argentina’s Act of the Declaration of Independence
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July 19, 2023
Careful Collector No. 17 – ATADA Voluntary Returns Program for Native American Artifacts
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July 4, 2023
Benin Bronzes Lawsuit Against Smithsonian: Deadria Farmer-Paellmann & Bruce Afran Interview
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July 2, 2023
Careful Collector No. 16 – Let it Snow in a Globe – Paige’s Accumulation Becomes a Collection
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June 30, 2023
Israel Asks Citizens to Turn In Antiquities – Archaeologists Ask to Stop Excavations
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June 21, 2023
Hong Kong: Laws Imperil Culture From Art to Anthems
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June 20, 2023
Pop Music Against Oppression
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June 18, 2023
Controversy Roils “Disturbingly Informative” Mütter Museum
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June 18, 2023
China Seeks Cultural Protection But Nixes US UNESCO Membership
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June 18, 2023
EU Action Plan Replays Bogus Claims About Art Market
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June 18, 2023
Law Note: UK Ivory Act Expanded
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June 17, 2023
Art Moves: Kogi Sacred Masks Go from Germany to Colombia
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June 17, 2023
Art Moves: Three Vatican Parthenon Fragments go to Greek Archbishopric, then Acropolis Museum
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June 17, 2023
Law Note: Netherlands Court Rules Crimean Gold Must Go To Ukraine
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June 10, 2023
Voices Pro & Con at CPAC on China and Bulgaria MOUs
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June 5, 2023
Careful Collector No. 15 – World Culture Cop
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May 27, 2023
Is the EU sleepwalking into an art market nightmare?
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May 26, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: 2023 CHINA MOU – Building China’s Art Monopoly and Destroying Minority Culture and Identity
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April 29, 2023
Careful Collector No. 14: A Collecting Bubble That Burst
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April 28, 2023
Repatriation of Brutus Aureus Highlights Dangers of Overzealous NY DA’s Office to Ancient Coin Collecting
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April 26, 2023
Nigeria Gives Benin Ruler Exclusive Ownership of Bronzes
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April 21, 2023
Can Taliban be Trusted to Preserve Afghan Heritage?
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April 19, 2023
In Defense of David
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April 17, 2023
Careful Collector No. 13: New Collectors from Abroad
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April 16, 2023
Young historian finds medieval gold treasure in the Netherlands
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March 11, 2023
Turkey Loses Guennol Stargazer Appeal. Statue Will Go to Christie’s and Steinhardt.
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March 9, 2023
EU: Death Comes to the Vatican Canon, Rome Archeological Exhibit, Ali Aboutaam Fined after 6 Year Investigation
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March 4, 2023
US Museum News: Brauer Controversial Deaccession & Frankenthaler Grants for Clean Energy
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March 1, 2023
Careful Collector No.12: NFTs- Flash in the Pan or Here to Stay?
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February 24, 2023
State Dept Renews Blockade on Libyan Art, Ignoring Law and Facts
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February 4, 2023
Will U.S. Sign Uzbekistan Art Embargo 50,000 BC to 1917?
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February 3, 2023
Careful Collector No. 11: Orders and Decorations: Can Symbols of Valor be Bought and Sold?
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February 3, 2023
CPAC Report: Coin Collectors Face More Collateral Damage
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January 9, 2023
Cambodia and “Stone Temple Nationalism”
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January 8, 2023
NAGPRA: Major Changes Proposed for 2023 to Native American Repatriation Law
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January 5, 2023
Careful Collector No. 10: The Lifecycle of Collectibles: Different Generations Often Value Different Things
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January 3, 2023
Committee for Cultural Policy 2022 Annual Report
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January 3, 2023
168 Nazca Lines, 35K Syrian Antiquities, No More Golf at Moundbuilder Site and Pompeii’s Sheep are Baaaaack
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January 1, 2023
US Plans Agreements to Block Art from Uzbekistan, Cambodia and North Macedonia
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December 7, 2022
Careful Collector No. 9: Will my African Art be repatriated as reparations for the Colonialist past?
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December 1, 2022
STOP Act Passes: First law restricting export of American art
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November 11, 2022
Comments on UNESCO’s Draft Model Provisions on the Prevention and Fight against the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property
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November 2, 2022
UNESCO Model Provisions Could End Most Global Trade
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October 30, 2022
Putin Using Martial Law to Legitimate Ukraine Art Looting
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October 29, 2022
Moai on Easter Island Damaged in Arson Fire
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October 20, 2022
The Llullaillaco Mummies
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October 20, 2022
The Careful Collector: What to Do with Your Ivory Keyed Piano?
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October 10, 2022
Restitution Study Group Unable to Stop Smithsonian’s Benin Returns
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October 4, 2022
Where will Benin bronzes go? Nigerian government, Edo Museum or Oba?
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September 29, 2022
Caucasus Heritage Watch: Azerbaijan is Destroying Armenian Heritage
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September 27, 2022
ICOM Condemns Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Heritage
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September 27, 2022
Repatriations: Getty Sirens, Cambodian Sculptures, Jewish Coin, Nepal Stele
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September 26, 2022
The Careful Collector – Why does a French auction house want to know so much about me?
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September 26, 2022
UK Charity Act Opens Door to Restitutions
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September 19, 2022
J’accuse! Georges Lotfi’s Dramatic Open Letter to Bogdanos’ Antiquities Trafficking Unit
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August 31, 2022
Climate Activists Glue Themselves to Masterpieces
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August 28, 2022
The Careful Collector: What’s it Worth? Friends Find Value in Family Heirlooms
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August 2, 2022
Russia’s War Against Ukrainian Culture
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August 1, 2022
The Careful Collector- Fakes and Alterations: Hana Hunts for Vintage Uke with Few Strings Attached
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August 1, 2022
Shorts: Briton in Iraq Released – Yale Gives Up Indian Artifacts – Jewish Manuscript Rescued – Gentileschi Seized
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August 1, 2022
Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche
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July 28, 2022
Libyan Jewish Community Fights for Rights to Heritage
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July 28, 2022
Will US Renew Libyan Art Embargo During Civil War?
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July 1, 2022
The Careful Collector: Great Catsby is Life of the Party
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July 1, 2022
Turkey – Hagia Sophia Suffers Serious Damage: Walls Peeled and Marble Tiles Shattered
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June 30, 2022
5 Native Nations Will Manage Bears Ears with Feds
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June 1, 2022
The Careful Collector: Not as Rare as You Might Think!
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May 31, 2022
Only in New Mexico: The Hermit of Hermit’s Peak and a Jewish Tribal Chief
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May 30, 2022
Belgian Blunder: Government Sells Stolen Ife Head for €240
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May 28, 2022
Sacre bleu! Former Louvre president charged in antiquities trafficking case.
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May 21, 2022
Commentary: Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq – The sectarian appropriation of Iraq’s past
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May 15, 2022
Losing the Parthenon Marbles: History, Passion, and Possession
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May 5, 2022
U.S. Weighs Questionable Cultural Property Agreement with Pakistan
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April 22, 2022
The Careful Collector: The Riddle of the Native American Eagle Headdress
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April 4, 2022
Mes Aynak: Dark Days for Afghanistan’s Buddhist Heritage
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April 3, 2022
The Careful Collector: Don’t Import Buyer’s Remorse
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March 31, 2022
“Who ordered the borscht?” When a State Steals Culture, Others Pay the Bill.
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March 31, 2022
Egypt’s Antiquities Authority Seizes Geniza from Jewish Cemetery
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March 31, 2022
EU Parliament Resolution Condemns Azerbaijan’s Erasure of Armenian History
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March 18, 2022
CINOA-Art Market Demands Fundamental Review of Law Making
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March 17, 2022
Mali Government Wants U.S. Blockade on Art as Russian Mercenaries Secure Regime
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March 11, 2022
Bamiyan: What Lasted for 1500 Years Will be Gone in Ten
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March 7, 2022
U.S. Treasury Report: Key Findings on Money Laundering and Terror Finance in Art Trade
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February 3, 2022
Citizen Activists Want Nepalese Art Back
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January 19, 2022
Vance Caps Career: Steinhardt Gives Up $70 Million in Antiquities
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January 6, 2022
2021 Cultural Agreements Deny Access to Art
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December 30, 2021
The Lost World of Eastern Turkestan: A Photographic Journey to the Past
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December 26, 2021
Whistleblower Fired: UN Human Rights Council Gave Dissidents’ Names to China
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December 24, 2021
Uyghur Human and Cultural Rights: Forced Labor Prevention Act and Shocking Holocaust Museum Report
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December 14, 2021
Gold Ewer with Hollywood History Delivered to Turkey
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December 12, 2021
Roman Busts Found & 45,000 Skeletons Reburied in UK Rail Project
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November 30, 2021
‘Picture Cave’ Site of Ancient Native Pictographs Auctioned
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November 2, 2021
Mexico Establishes Agency to Seek Antiquities on Carabinieri Model
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October 31, 2021
Nation-Building with Archaeology: Iraq, Syria and Libya
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October 31, 2021
CENSORED: Cartoons and Ancient Conquerors in China
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October 31, 2021
Dutch Court: Scythian Gold from Crimea Should Go to Ukraine
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October 30, 2021
Trade Delivers Reality Check to Money Laundering Regulators
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October 29, 2021
Germany Funds €600,000 NEXUD AI App for Antiquities
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October 28, 2021
Lebanon, Abomey, Bishop Aukland, and Afghanistan
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October 15, 2021
Peru Asks to Extend 25 Year Long Art Blockade
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October 12, 2021
Art Market Organizations Stand Together Against Illicit Trade
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October 5, 2021
The Real Looting of Afghanistan: Pit Mining vs Heritage
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October 2, 2021
Afghanistan’s 4000 Years of Cross-Border Empires and Trade
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October 2, 2021
The Evolution and Deconstruction of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage Laws
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October 2, 2021
Afghanistan’s Heritage: A Former Government, the Taliban, and a Questionable Blockade
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September 5, 2021
Afghanistan Ethnographic Art: Turkoman Embroidery
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September 5, 2021
Coins of Afghanistan – Documenting History and Trade
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August 28, 2021
Pashtunwali: Pashtun Traditional Tribal Law in Afghanistan
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August 1, 2021
International Criminal Court: Cultural Heritage & Genocide
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July 31, 2021
UNESCO Threatens Stonehenge with At-Risk Status
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July 31, 2021
Future UK Ban on Hippo, Narwhal, Whale, and Walrus Ivories?
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July 24, 2021
The Strange History of the Torlonia Marbles
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July 20, 2021
A Tale of Two Seizures: The Carabinieri TPC
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July 16, 2021
Around the Mediterranean: discoveries, ancient economies and national politics
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July 11, 2021
Turkish MoU Will Devastate Minorities, Bolster Erdoğan Regime
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July 10, 2021
Archaeological Discovery Points to Long-lost Settlement of Sarabay in Florida
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June 23, 2021
Bulldozing Culture: China’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Heritage Reveals Genocidal Intent
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May 31, 2021
Interview: Factum Foundation’s Ferdinand Saumarez Smith on Preserving the Bakor Monoliths
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May 30, 2021
Golf vs Ancient Earthworks: Moundbuilders Country Club Case Comes to the ‘Fore’
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May 30, 2021
Thefts, Fakes, and Facsimiles: Preserving the Bakor Monoliths of Eastern Nigeria
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May 30, 2021
Sisi’s Parade of Absolute Rulers – Celebration of Autocracy Opens Egyptian Museum
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May 29, 2021
CircArt and the British Museum – A great opportunity wasted.
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May 27, 2021
Controversial Bill on Export of Native American Art Before Congress
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May 25, 2021
April May 2021 Repatriation Digest
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May 20, 2021
Setback for Planned Mega-Resort and Amusement Park at Angkor Wat
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May 17, 2021
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 1
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May 17, 2021
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 2
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May 17, 2021
The Antiquities Trade: A reflection on the past 25 years, Part 3
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April 21, 2021
Critical Comments Rain Down on Draft EU Regulations
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April 15, 2021
MOU Backstory: How Cultural Property Agreements with Authoritarian Middle Eastern Governments are Made
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April 5, 2021
Brucemore: Directing Crisis Recovery of an Historic Home and Landscape
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April 4, 2021
Is ICE Writing Its Own Laws? The Curious Case of the Chandler Museum
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April 2, 2021
Old Salem Museums & Gardens: How a Living Museum in the South Addresses the History of Slavery
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April 2, 2021
NETCHER Project: 194 Recommendations Locked in Unreality
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March 31, 2021
CINOA Report Blasts False Information on Art Trade
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March 27, 2021
Argam Ayvazyan: Spy–Researcher For Nakhichevan Armenian Culture
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March 13, 2021
Albania Wants US Art Embargo But Where is the Art?
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March 10, 2021
Egypt’s Brutal Regime Wants to Renew US Blockade on Art; Claims to Protect Heritage & Culture
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February 27, 2021
Art and Abolition: Art Objects and the Rejection of Slavery
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February 2, 2021
Turkish MOU: Last Minute State Department Deal Sparks Outrage
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February 1, 2021
US Renews Italy’s Quarter-Century Art Embargo – New Morocco MOU Blocks Ancient and Ethnographic Art
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January 29, 2021
UK Not Adopting EU Art and Antiquities Import Rules
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January 28, 2021
The Museum of the Bible: Repatriations, investigations, thefts, and fakes dog DC institution.
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January 27, 2021
Armenian Monuments Threatened After Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh War
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January 20, 2021
Nigeria Welcomes Future Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)
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January 18, 2021
UNESCO Appoints Syria Trust for Development to Heritage Post
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January 16, 2021
Bungling Smugglers: Egypt Seeks Extradition after Trial in Absentia of Former Consul
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January 10, 2021
Anti-Money Laundering Law Goes After Antiquities Trade
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January 9, 2021
Our World Heritage’s Full Year of Events: Rethinking the World Heritage Convention
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December 31, 2020
Bad DIY Idea: Egyptians Digging for Antiquities in Own Homes
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December 29, 2020
CCP/CPN 2020 Year End Report
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December 24, 2020
Major Lilly Endowment Grants to U.S. Museums Center on Religion and Art
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November 23, 2020
UNESCO Marks Convention’s 50th Anniversary with Doctored Photos and Disinformation
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November 22, 2020
Humboldt Forum Collaboration with Tanzania
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November 22, 2020
‘Cute Repatriation’ Prank Brings Fake Beuys Sculpture to Tanzania
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November 19, 2020
Forget history. There is no Genghis Khan.
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November 19, 2020
Berlin’s Museuminsel in the Wake of Vandalism
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November 17, 2020
Hypothetical Hopes for Healing Through Art
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October 17, 2020
Turkey Seizes Ancient Seed Collection in Nationalist Move
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October 13, 2020
Nigeria: Support Cultural Expansion, Not Art Blockade
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October 10, 2020
Gary Vikan: The Holy Shroud, A Brilliant Hoax in the Time of the Black Death
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September 30, 2020
Elias Gerasoulis: A geo-political perspective on the Turkish MoU
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September 30, 2020
August & September: Six Short Stories on Museums, Art and Culture
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September 29, 2020
WCO Reports: Heritage Trafficking Tiny Percentage of Illegal Trade
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September 28, 2020
Cowan’s Auctions Returns Zuni War God to Tribe
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September 27, 2020
Istanbul’s Last Church-Mosque-Museum
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September 27, 2020
Interview with Robert G. Ousterhout: The Preservation and Reconversion of Kariye Camii
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September 20, 2020
Cranach to Corot: AAMD Moratorium Lets Brooklyn Sell Art
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September 20, 2020
State Department to Hear Requests for Import Restrictions on Nigerian, Greek, and Bolivian Art
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September 14, 2020
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CCP & GHA Testify on Blockade on All Art from Tunisia
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Morocco Seeks US Import Restrictions on Ancient & Ethnic Art
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October 3, 2019
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July 28, 2019
UK Gov’t Query: Is Ban on Warthog, Hippo, Walrus, Whale and Narwhal Necessary?
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July 24, 2019
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June 16, 2019
EU Regulation Curtailing Import of Art & Antiquities Now Law
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June 10, 2019
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May 30, 2019
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May 29, 2019
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May 28, 2019
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May 25, 2019
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Not Again! 25% Tariff on Chinese Antiques Pending
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May 7, 2019
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March 31, 2019
Asian Studies Association Condemns China’s Incarceration of Turkic Muslims
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March 19, 2019
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March 19, 2019
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March 17, 2019
Germany Offers $2.17 Million for Ethnographic Provenance Research
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March 12, 2019
Egypt Rejects Accessible Database of Art in Circulation
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EU Parliament Holocaust Restitution Proposal Threatens Circulation of Ancient Art
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January 29, 2019
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Australia Liberalizes Export Laws for Indigenous Art & Antiques
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December 30, 2018
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French Proposal for Restitution of African Art
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Chinese Art and Antiques Dropped from US Tariff List
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August 27, 2018
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August 23, 2018
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August 10, 2018
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July 19, 2018
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New Import Requirements for Ancient & Ethnographic Art
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June 25, 2018
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June 18, 2018
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May 28, 2018
EU Adds Art Dealers to Money Laundering Rules
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AAMD Sanctions Museums for Selling Artworks
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May 22, 2018
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May 21, 2018
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April 22, 2018
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April 9, 2018
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Art Dealer Program Brings Over 100 Artifacts Back to Tribes
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March 7, 2018
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March 7, 2018
Chaco Canyon Update: BLM Delays Leases Affecting Industry, Indians, Archaeologists
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Yemen Claims Jewish Religious Artifacts
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New York District Attorney Goes After Art Collections
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Chaco Canyon Exhibit on Indefinite Hold
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January 8, 2018
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January 4, 2018
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December 29, 2017
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US Blocks Import of Art and Artifacts from Libya
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November 29, 2017
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November 25, 2017
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November 25, 2017
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Pakistan Museum Trashes Ancient Statues
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US Gives China License to Loot
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October 31, 2017
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October 31, 2017
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U.S. Withdraws from UNESCO
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October 2, 2017
US Rescue of Iraqi Jewish Archives Imperiled
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September 30, 2017
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September 28, 2017
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September 25, 2017
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September 22, 2017
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September 21, 2017
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September 20, 2017
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September 14, 2017
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September 12, 2017
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September 8, 2017
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August 30, 2017
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August 27, 2017
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August 18, 2017
Restrictive German Cultural Property Law Now In English
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August 1, 2017
Philippine’s Duterte Demands Bells Back
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July 31, 2017
Seizure at Met Interrupts Repatriation
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July 25, 2017
Congress Holds CPAC Accountable
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July 24, 2017
Indian Monuments Threatened By Removal of Legal Protections
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July 20, 2017
Hobby Lobby Breaks the Rules
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July 18, 2017
UNESCO Declares Tomb of Patriarchs to be Palestinian World Heritage Site
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July 14, 2017
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American-Libyan Jews Seek Rights to Heritage
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June 30, 2017
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June 14, 2017
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May 27, 2017
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May 24, 2017
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May 22, 2017
Now That Jews Are Gone, Egypt Says It Will Restore Sites
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April 27, 2017
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April 24, 2017
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April 14, 2017
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April 11, 2017
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March 31, 2017
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March 29, 2017
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March 25, 2017
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Industry Behemoths Set Voluntary Rules for Art Business
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January 31, 2017
Antiquities Coalition Proposes “Pollution Tax” on Art Trade
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January 29, 2017
Court Says Statue 600 years in Japan Should Go to to Korean Temple
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September 15, 2016
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September 14, 2016
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April 20, 2016
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April 14, 2016
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December 15, 2015
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July 27, 2015
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May 28, 2015
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May 11, 2015
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May 10, 2015
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February 25, 2015
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April 18, 2014
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March 29, 2013
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