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…
Several paintings were discovered stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art during the morning of May 20, 2010. They are of inestimable cultural and monetary value. When a major…
Ukrainian and German police recovered a Caravaggio that had been stolen from a museum in Odessa in 2008. “The Taking of Christ” was found in the hands of a criminal…
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee will be holding public sessions on October 12 and October 14, 2010 to consider renewing the cultural property protection agreement with Colombia and to consider…
Theft, Fraud, and Forgery: Cultural Property Crime in the U.S. and the FBI Art Theft Program When: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010, 2:00 – 5:00 pm Where: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen &…
Tricia Bishop of the Baltimore Sun has a worthwhile piece titled Art investigators: Saving the country’s cultural heritage, one recovered work at a time. Passion drives the overworked and underappreciated. …