Wednesday, August 31, 2011

After the Iraq Museum Was Looted, Senior Bush Administration Officials Told It Still Needed to Be Secured. Three Days Later It Was.

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As cables from the Iraq war continue to ooze out onto the internet, more details are gradually emerging to fill in the small gaps that still...
Friday, August 26, 2011

Libyan Rebels Mobilize Special Brigade to Protect Museum and Sites

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I somehow missed this nugget in a Guardian article on Tuesday: "The opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) said on Tuesday tha...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Did NATO Plans to Help Libyans Topple Ghaddafi Include Inducements to Protect Libyan Archaeological Sites?

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This UNESCO statement warning authorities in and neighboring countries to guard against looting of their archaeological sites raises some i...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

ICE on a roll

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This story is interesting on several counts, including the news that the smuggler was apparently moving artifacts not just from the Dominic...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Antiquities Dealers, Asked for Help from FBI in Identifying Law-Breaking Dealers, Respond with Laughs

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A sobering account here of a meeting between FBI agents and the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association. The attitude of dealers in Native A...

Too Many Antiquities Seizures in Turkey For the Museum to Handle

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According to this article , Turkey's antiquities police have been very busy, confiscating more than 68,000 artifacts from nearly 5,000 s...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Can the London Riots Help Us Understand How to Deter Antiquities Looting?

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Ed Glaeser has a post (at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-12/how-riots-start-and-how-they-can-be-stopped-edward-glaeser.html - I canno...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

A few thoughts on today's Guardian article on "Stamping Out the Illicit Trade"

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No doubt the Arab Spring is generating some opportunities for looting, but the examples given in this article are all of looting that occur...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

Getty Trust CEO James Cuno wraps up debut week

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Getty Trust CEO James Cuno wraps up debut week As expected, and as he has already stated, Jim Cuno intends to continue to have the Getty f...

The Long Tail of Cultural Policy, Cultural Diplomacy Division

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A Pakistani version of Brubeck's "Take Five" here . The album is shooting up the charts in the UK, having gone viral. What is...
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Collector as Looter (and not just by analogy!)

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This story is over a year old but I just ran across it and thought it worth sharing, since it is rare that a wealthy collector even admits ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Felch on KQED: The Conceptual Limits of Focusing on Museum Restitution

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Jason Felch, co-author of Chasing Aphrodite , was interviewed last week on KQED, one more sign of the remarkable publishing success of that...

A Few Thoughts on the Egypt-Abu Dhabi-New York-Michigan-Virginia Smuggling Network

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There is sure to be a lot more to come, but there are already plenty of interesting facts surfacing about the international antiquities smug...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

International Smuggling Ring Operating within US Cracked

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Lots of intriguing information in this story , though the outlines mesh with what we know is the modus operandi by which antiquities make th...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

World Heritage List Inscription for Syrian Villages: A PR Coup for a Murderous Regime

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UNESCO's World Heritage Committee approves inscription of 40 ancient villages in northern Syria on the World Heritage List , along with ...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Arts leaders speak up -- is Rahm listening?

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Lots of good ideas here, and more should come out of the woodwork if the process of generating a cultural plan for Chicago is not hijacked, ...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

An Exchange with Hugh Eakin

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Hugh Eakin has responded to my previous post with a comment that I thought deserved to be shared along with my response to it below. Eaki...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

What Went Wrong With "What Went Wrong at the Getty" by Hugh Eakin | The New York Review of Books

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What Went Wrong at the Getty by Hugh Eakin | The New York Review of Books Hugh Eakin reviews the already-much-reviewed expose of the inn...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

5-10% of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Budget Goes to Site Security

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Iraq Museum to devote special hall to recovered artifacts, honoring Donny George

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It is moving to hear that the Baghdad Museum is going to honor the late Donny George by dedicating a conference hall in his name, and also i...