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LCCHP to Present Testimony at CPAC Meeting
The Lawyers' Committee has submitted testimony to the U.S. State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee in support of extension of the bilateral agreement between the United States and the Kingdom of Cambodia that restricts the import of undocumented archaeological materials. The public session in connection with CPAC's meeting will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2008.
2008 Writing Competition
The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation announces its 2007-2008 Student Writing Competition in Cultural Heritage Law. Beginning in 2008, the prize amounts to be awarded are $1,000 for first place and $500 for second place. The deadline for 2008 submissions is June 13. This annual Competition is sponsored by Andrews Kurth LLP
Met Says Goodbye to the Euphroniouis Krater
By CAROL VOGEL Published: January 11, 2008 In the coda to a long tug of war, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is bidding goodbye to the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vessel that has been a showpiece of its collection for more than three decades. Sunday is the last viewing day.
Restitution Roulette
THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 5, 2008 It's been a decade since the art world was thrown into a tizzy about Nazi-looted art. It began when an exhibition of artworks by Egon Schiele was just about to close at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Two families claimed that two artworks, on loan from the Leopold Foundation in Vienna, had once belonged to Austrian Nazi victims.
Bob Hecht: Fragments Of An Antiquities Conspiracy?
Hugh Eakin's recent "Treasure Hunt" story in The New Yorker profiling Marion True, the former Getty curator on trial in Rome for conspiracy to traffic in ancient art, devotes a column to True's 1991 paper on the destruction of ancient cultural sites, giving the impression that the Italian government is to blame for looting half of that country's Greek and Roman history because it may have neglected its sites – Eakin doesn't note that the entire country is an ancient site.
eBay Iraq relic auction stopped
eBay Iraq relic auction stopped Swiss authorities have blocked the sale of an ancient clay tablet, thought to have been smuggled from Iraq, on the internet auction site eBay. A German archaeologist spotted the 4,000-tear-old tablet on eBay's Swiss site. It is carved with cuneiform - one of the oldest known types of writing.
Bulgaria - the Ancient Kingdom of Thrace
Bulgaria was once part of the ancient kingdom of Thrace, and every year archaeologists there unearth many artefacts of great age and importance. However, with the rise of organised treasure hunters, there is a darker side to reclaiming the country's buried wealth. Raiders are stealing hundreds of antiquities worth millions of dollars and robbing Bulgarians of an irreplaceable and priceless heritage.
Squandering Our Heritage
Iran's cultural heritage is in danger. This is a warning that, over the years, particularly in the last one or two years, has been issued by admirers of Iran's ancient culture and civilization. However, these warnings seem to be falling on the deaf ears of all three branches of the government: the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary.
Fordham Opens Its Gift: An Antiquities Museum
For some four decades, William D. Walsh browsed auction catalogs in search of the ancient artifacts that would gratify his passion for classical antiquity. A bust of Emperor Augustus at the new Fordham Museum. From Greek terra cotta vases to Roman marble heads to Etruscan urns, he gradually assembled a private gallery of more than 200 pieces of varying shapes, sizes and materials at his home in Menlo Park, Calif.
Reagan Library Can't Fully Account for 80,000 Artifacts
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded.
German Government Returns 8,000-Year-Old Artifacts to Greece
Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Germany returned a total of 94 stolen objects dating back as far 6000 B.C. to the Greek government, ending more than 20 years of legal wrangling. The Neolithic-age items, mostly clay and marble idols, were stolen from a private collection in Larissa, central Greece, in 1985, Culture Minister Mihalis Liapis said in a news conference in Athens today.
The Treasure of the Oceans: Rise of the Salvagers
Captain John Limbrey was a not poor man. When his ship the Merchant Royal put into Cadiz harbour for repairs in January 1637, his personal fortune was estimated at 100,000 gemstones. But in the buccaneering and avaricious spirit of the times, he could not pass up the opportunity to make a little more.
National parks being looted, items ending up for sale
USA Today, Jan. 23, 2008, 04:32 PM. Looting of archaeological artifacts and fossils from national parks is increasing as the demand for such items rises on the Internet and the world market, U.S. National Park Service officials say.
Bowers Museum didn't need this publicity
Santa Ana institution has long sought to be a major player in the art world. Federal raid put it in a harsh spotlight. By Mike Boehm
UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art
UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art
Probe, smuggling allegations mar museum plans
Federal agents are investigating whether a curator, now deceased, knowingly acquired looted artifacts from the Far East
Russians Reveal Hoard of 46,000 Art Treasures Stolen by Nazis
Russia's government has revealed details of 46,000 artworks missing after Nazi looting.
The theft of great treasures of art
THE FOUR paintings by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas, and Monet grabbed by masked gunmen from a small Zurich museum join the hundreds of other masterpieces stolen from private collections and museums over the years as art theft continues to be one of the most lucrative and toughest crimes that police and security specialists must combat.
Balancing art, ethics
The federal raid last month on four California museums, including the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park, has drawn new attention to an unwelcome fact of the art trade: An increasing amount of pillaged property is finding its way into museums and private collections.
chief archivist charged with stealing $160,000 worth of museum property
The former chief archivist for The Mariners' Museum made his first appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges that he stole $160,000 worth of museum property and sold it on eBay.
Protecting the Past: the Fate of Cultural Property in Times of Armed Conflict