A lawyer's commentary on cultural property law and its impact on cultural property crime, antiquities trafficking, looted archaeology, illicit trade, art theft, heritage preservation, and museum risk management.
A lawyer's commentary on cultural property law and its impact on cultural property crime, antiquities trafficking, looted archaeology, illicit trade, art theft, heritage preservation, and museum risk management.
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The Concert Who went to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before the notorious theft of over a dozen artworks? Carmen Ortiz, United States Attorney for the District of…
Thieves nabbed seven paintings from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands sometime during the night of October 15/16, 2012. Dutch police, in a press release, are asking the following:…
Prosecutors and police are talking more about cultural heritage crime. Global antiquities trafficking was discussed at the International Association of Prosecutors annual meeting held in Bangkok last month. And this…
Defendant mosaic seized by the FBI that prosecutors say measures18 ft. x 8 ft. and weighs approximately one ton. In a recently filed civil forfeiture case involving cultural property, prosecutors…
Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks today ordered prison time for the pair charged with illegal possession, transportation, and sale of Henri Matisse’s Odalisque in Red Pants. The federal court in the southern district…
Note reportedly written by Neil Armstrong.Source: court papers filed in Cicco v. NASA “To Laura Ann Murray – Best of Luck – Neil Armstrong Apollo 11.” This message accompanied a vial…