Blog Profile / Illicit Cultural Property
| URL : | http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts | |
| Posts on Regator: | 681 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3 | |
| Archived Since: | January 18, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Yes, antiquities with good history are worth more
More anecdotal evidence this week that the prices paid for antiquities continues to reflect not only the intrinsic value of the object, but the quality of its history as well. Unprovenanced objects are not selling. Souren Melikian reports...Show More Summary
Will the Statute of Frauds Crack the Art Market’s Shield of Anonymity in New York?
The Jenack Auction house, outside Chester, NY
In his seminal 1982 article, Harvard Law
Professor Paul Bator noted that the art trade is shrouded in mystery. In the
hirty years since Bator examined the international art market, little...Show More Summary
Federal agents have seized $100m from Subhash Kapoor
Jason Felch reports that Federal agents have seized a whopping $100 million in art in the past couple years from Subhash Kapoor. Kapoor, an American citizen, is subject to potential criminal charges for dealing in looted and stolen art:...Show More Summary
ARCA's Fifth Annual Conference, June 21-23, Amelia
After the jump, a list of the speakers and award winners, the full conference schedule is available here.
Toby bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force, "Property of a Hong Kong Gentleman, Art Crime in Hong Kong - Buyer Beware";
Ruth...Show More Summary
That Picasso Vandal was Sentenced to two years in prison
In the informal straw poll I've taken with Houston artists, art student and all-around jerk Uriel Landeros is universally reviled.
In June last year he spray painted a work by Picasso, woman in a Red Armchair, at the Menil here in Montrose. Show More Summary
Jason Felch Updates the Southland Antiquities Investigation
In Sunday's LA Times, Jason Felch reports on a languishing federal antiquities investigation. In 2008 there was a loud showy raid on five museums in Southern California, including: the Bowers Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, the Mingei Museum, and the LA County Museum of Art. Show More Summary
Cambodia Presses Other Museums
Tom Mashberg reports that Cambodia now has requested objects from others, including: Denver Art Museum Cleveland Museum of Art The Norton Simon, And of course Sotheby's which is challenging a federal forfeiture New York's Metropolitan Museum announced it would return two other statues. Show More Summary
The Met Announces the Return of two statues to Cambodia
Today, Ralph Blumenthal reports that the Met has agreed to return two 10th century statues to Cambodia. The Met's director Thomas Campbell is quoted as saying:
This is a case in which additional information regarding the 'Kneeling Attendants'...Show More Summary
Conference Schedule, Vulnerability & Cultural Heritage, Leicester 9-10 of May
Next week I'll be attending and presenting at a conference at the University of Leicester titled "Vulnerability and Cultural Heritage". It looks to be a great group of speakers, and I'm looking forward to catching up with and meeting many of these folks. Show More Summary
Auctions and Civil Disobedience (UPDATE)
The Christie's Auction catalog with a bronze rabbit head
Earlier this week I was able to watch a screening on Earth Day of 'Bidder 70' a new documentary which examines the story of Tim DeChristopher. He was sentenced to two years in prison, and a $10,000 fine. Show More Summary
Student note on restituting Nazi-Looted art
Katherine N. Skinner has a student note titled "Restituting Nazi-Looted Art: Domestic, Legislative, and Binding Intervention to Balance the Interests of Victims and Museums", 15 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. 673. From the abstract: The Nazis...Show More Summary
Looting at Ebla in Syria
On Saturday CJ Chivers reported on looting in Syria, in particular at the ancient site of Ebla: For decades Ebla has been celebrated for the insights it offers into early Syrian civilization. The scenes here today offer something else:...Show More Summary
Can the Hopi Thwart the Sale of Sacred Objects in Paris Next Week?
A Hopi helmet representing the Crow Mother (more slides via NYT)
Next week the Néret-Minet auction house in Paris will auction a number of Hopi objects, many of which are more than 100 years old, and many of which are considered sacred. Show More Summary
Theft at the Villa Giulia
A view of the Villa Giulia, Italy's Etruscan Museum
Over the Easter holiday weekend, thieves have broken into the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, home to thousands of Etruscan artifacts, including the Euphronios/Sarpedon Krater. La Reppubblica...Show More Summary
CNN Report on the Gardner Theft
“Thieves Took $500M in Art in 81 Minutes.” Accessed March 26, 2013. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/22/thieves-took-500m-in-art-in-81-minutes/. Questions or Comments? Email me at derek.fincham@gmail.com
A Hollow Victory for Mexico in the Barbier-Mueller Sale
Lot 137, which did sell, for 2,001,500 Euro
On Friday and Saturday in Paris Sotheby's auctioned a number of allegedly Pre-Columbian objects from the Barbier-Mueller collection.
Nord Wennerstrom reports that many of the lots sold for less than the low estimate, and 79 of 151 lots failed to sell. Show More Summary
My Piece on the Cultural Heritage Movement and Environmental Justice
A typical row house in Houston's 4th Ward, from 1984. Via FPH.
I've just received the final proof of an article I've written where I try to trace the connections between material culture and the environment: Justice and the Cultural Heritage Movement: Using Environmental Justice to Appraise Art and Antiquities Disputes, 20 Va. Show More Summary
Trafficking Culture are Guest-Editing the EJCPR
The folks at Trafficking Culture are guest-Editing an upcoming edition of the EJCPR. Here are the details: The European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research is a peer-reviewed international criminology journal with a special interest in transnational organized crime. Show More Summary
Video of the FBI Gardner Press Conference
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The FBI Says it Has Identified Gardner Thieves
Have you seen these works? If so you might be entitled to a $5 million reward...
But the headline makes it seem a recovery is closer at hand than it may be. Every day after St. Patrick's Day, I've come to expect pieces discussing the...Show More Summary