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- UPDATED > Manhattan Dealer Nancy Wiener Arrested: Criminal Complaint Alleges Sweeping Conspiracy to Sell Stolen Asian Art Through Major Auction Houses December 21, 2016
- UPDATED > Inside the ISIS Looting Operation: U.S. Lawsuit Reveals Terror Group’s Brutal Bureaucracy of Plunder December 15, 2016
- The End of the Beginning: NGA Returns Kushan Buddha and Two Kapoor Objects September 18, 2016
- The Missing Link: Subhash Kapoor’s Suppliers in India Are (Finally) Getting Rolled Up July 3, 2016
- The Lessons of Palmyra: Iconoclasm in the era of Clickbait April 7, 2016
- UPDATED > Asia Week Arrest: Japanese Dealer Convicted Of Selling Stolen Art March 19, 2016
- Asia Week Raids: New Details on the Christie’s Seizures March 18, 2016
- Busted: Asia Week Raids Reveal Scope of Illicit Trade in Asian Art March 17, 2016
- The Crennan Report: The NGA’s Ex Post Facto Due Diligence Finds 22 “Questionable” Asian Antiquities February 17, 2016
- Operation Antiquity: Prison for Antiquities Dealer Behind Looting and Tax Fraud Scheme December 15, 2015
- Ball State’s Kapoor Return Reveals New False Provenance November 17, 2015
- The Seated Buddha Goes Home: Nancy Wiener and National Gallery of Australia Will Return Sculpture to India March 5, 2015
- The Kushan Buddhas: Nancy Wiener, Douglas Latchford and New Questions about Ancient Buddhas February 1, 2015
- Danti’s Inference: The Known Unknowns Of ISIS and Antiquities Looting November 18, 2014
- Hecht’s Footprints: Haverford College Opens Up About Source of Their Greek Vases November 4, 2014
- Shiva Goes Home: Australia’s Prime Minister Returns Looted Kapoor Idols to India September 4, 2014
- Twenty Percent: ISIS “Khums” Tax on Archaeological Loot Fuels the Conflicts in Syria and Iraq August 14, 2014
- Boston MFA’s Provenance Research Reveals The Illicit Trade In African Antiquities July 30, 2014
- SCOOP: Bowers Museum will return 500+ Thai antiquities seized during 2008 raids June 10, 2014
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Ton Cremer’s MSN- High Art, Wall Street Money, and Forgery Claims Collide in Quiet Corner of N.H.
- F Is for Forgery: Van Gogh’s Lost Arles Sketchbook :: Visual Arts :: Features :: Paste
- Furti d’arte in Italia: il grande lavoro dei Carabinieri
- Kwame Opoku – Did Egyptians Never Ask For The Restitution Of Nefertiti?
- How Science Uncovered $80 Million of Fine Art Forgeries | WIRED
Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire- President Obama Fills Last CPAC Positions
- President Obama Fills More Cultural Heritage Policy Positions
- Ahead of Term's End, President Makes Several Cultural Heritage Board Appointments
- New Cultural Heritage Laws Enacted
- Felony Charges Against NY Antiquities Dealer Begins Cultural Property Prosecution in State Court
Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
David Gill’s Looting Matters
Conflict Antiquities- a dismembered Buddha from Indonesia sold for 246 per cent more than its estimate at Christie’s Paris auction
- Christie’s Paris auction of sacred images and other antiquities from Asia, 14th December 2016
- conflict antiquities, from Libya to Italy and from Syria to Belgium, and lack of due diligence in the international market
- trigger warnings or content warnings and archaeologies of modern conflict
- ISIS and the missing treasures, the missing treasures and ISIS?
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art- Operation Pandora - When multinational law enforcement agents collaborate, they are a force to be reckoned with.
- Camorra bosses convicted, Van Gogh's can go home to Amsterdam.......shortly.
- Is art crime understudied? Yes, but you can help us change that.
- Auction Alert and Antiquities Seizure: Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
- Seminar: Risk Management in the Art and Antiquities Markets Part II: Criminal and Compliance Risk - 7 February 2017
Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag- U.S. Senators are pushing for Native American Artifact legislation -- but will it do any good?
- Libya: Cultural Racketeering by the Actual Mafia and What it Tells Us about How It Should Be Fought
- Parcak's Peru Project: What about the looters?
- If Florence can lease its piazzas, why can't museums lease antiquities to raise $ to protect sites?
- "Safe haven" self-justifies collector/curator/dealer in smuggling Pakistani artifacts
Elginism — Repatriation Issues- New finds from wreck of Elgin’s ship off Kythera - Lecture at Kings College London by Dimitris Kourkoumelis
- RIP Professor Norman Palmer - A great mind, as a barrister he defended numerous cultural property cases
- Mock Trial : Greece vs UK – The Parthenon Sculptures - A moot court is being held at Monash University in Melbourne to discuss the issue
- Talk by Dr Tom Flynn on the Parthenon Sculptures - Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles: breaking the deadlock?
- Export bans – is Britain a cultural one way street? - Why do we feel other countries should share their culture, but then place bans on the export of our own
Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl- Never-Ending Battle: Mobilizing (once again) to Save the National Endowments for the Arts & Humanities
- Stumped by Trump: MoMA’s Lowry Walks “Fine Line” Between “Asserting Values” & Being Partisan
- “Baseless Claims”: Getty Blasts Phoenix Ancient Art for Megamillion Lawsuit Over Torlonia Collection
- Art Errors: Steve Cohen Evades Not Only the Feds, But Also the New Yorker’s Fact-Checkers
- Good News for the New Year: Reinstallation of the Getty Villa
Law Enforcement
- FBI Art Squad FBI’s Art Detail
- Carabinieri Art Squad The Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, Italy’s Art Squad.
- Interpol Art Detail Interpol has tracked the trade in stolen art since 1947.
- ICE ICE Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Museums
- The Getty The website of the J. Paul Getty Trust
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Greek and Roman Galleries of the Met
- Boston MFA Art of the Ancient World at the Boston MFA
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