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.
Stag’s Head Rhyton, c. 400 BC from Milas, Turkey, site of illegal excavations. Purchased by Steinhardt for $2.6 mil from the Merrin Gallery in 1991. Loaned to The Met in 1993….
State attorneys general should address the ballooning scam of criminals using the art and antiquities marketplace to sell faked, forged, looted, stolen, and smuggled cultural property. This hijacking of the trade…
A New York criminal court has sentenced Salina Mohamed, one of several individuals implicated in the Subhash Kapoor idol trafficking case. Chasing Aphrodite wrote extensively about Mohamed’s case after Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos charged the defendant…
The importance of Wednesday’s guilty plea by Aaron Freedman in the Kapoor heritage trafficking case must not be overlooked. Freedman, the manager of Subhash Kapoor’s Art of the Past gallery…
In July 2012, CHL wondered whether federal-state cooperation and the use of state criminal law–as opposed to federal criminal law–to prosecute international heritage trafficking may be taking shape in New…