Showing posts with label Manhattan District Attorney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manhattan District Attorney. Show all posts
December 6, 2025

Historic Renewal of U.S.–Italy Cultural Property Protections at the Museum of Saved Art

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Yesterday, at the the Museum of Saved Art in Rome, Italy, the Government of the Italian Republic and the Government of the United States of ...
August 8, 2025

From Disappearance to Return: The Long Journey Home of a Stolen 17th-Century Jesuit Manuscript

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In 1675, Jesuit scholar Zacharias Traber published Nervus Opticus Sive Tractatus Theoricus in Tres Libros in Vienna, a richly illustrated t...
July 25, 2025

From Dubai to Zurich: Eugene Alexander faces justice in antiquities trafficking case

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Evgeni Svetoslavov Mutafchiev flew to Switzerland from Dubai on Sunday, July 6th.  His visit to Zurich wasn’t to buy Swiss chocolates. Rathe...
April 25, 2025

A landmark win in the fight for restitution: Egon Schiele’s Russian War Prisoner ordered returned to Grünbaum heirs

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In a resounding decision that reverberates across the international art world, the Supreme Court of New York County ruled on Wednesday (23 A...
February 14, 2025

Investigators win repatriation battle as Cleveland Museum of Art backs down

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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has abandoned its legal fight to prevent the seizure of a prized bronze statue depicting the Roman emperor...
December 17, 2023

Lost Time, Found Art: The Decade-Long Pursuit of Restitution for Antiquities Smuggled by Douglas Latchford at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art restituted two,10th-century, Koh Ker stone statues, known as the “Kneeling Attendants” to Cambodia.  ...
December 6, 2023

New York Authorities return 41 smuggled historical artefacts, dating from the 7th century BCE to the 7th century CE to Turkey

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Yesterday a ceremony was held with officials from the Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in New York, where H.E. Gökhan Yazgı, Depu...
September 20, 2023

Seven World War II-era restitutions originating from the Collection Grünbaum

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A total of seven artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele once owned by Franz Friedrich 'Fritz' Grünbaum wil...