September 12, 2017

Repatriation: United States will return Iraqi Jewish Archive to Iraq in 2018.

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Books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish Archive prior to conservation On May 6, 2003, in the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s Mu...
September 5, 2017

Iraqi pawns and an American chess player

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Image Credit: U.S. Embassy Baghdad The United States has returned dictator Saddam Hussein’s chess set to the Iraqi government in Bagh...
September 4, 2017

Egyptian Mummy Cartonnage on Pawn Stars

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On this blog we spend a lot of time stressing provenance, provenance, provenance, and the need for antiquities collectors and dealers t...
August 31, 2017

UK Art dealer arrested in Los Palacios, Spain for stealing antiques and on an order of extradition to Italy

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Objects seized.  Image Credit: Guardia Civil / DGGC Identified during a routine inspection of guest lists for lodgings in Los Palacios ...
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Updates on Turkey’s lawsuit over the multimillion-dollar, 5,000-year-old antiquity known as the Guennol Stargazer.

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On August 28, 2017 attorneys for Michael Steinhardt and Christie's filed a lengthy, contentious  Motion to Dismiss  in the US Distri...
August 27, 2017

While London's Art and Antiques is suspended, Mexico creates new federal police division to protect cultural heritage

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Course Opening Ceremony Image Credit: INAH While a lot of the art crime news recently has been about the (hopefully temporary) shutteri...

Conference - Authenticity, forgery, provenance, and ethics at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting

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The 2017 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting , will be held in Boston on November 18–21, 2017 and will feature an interesting ...
August 26, 2017

Yes Virginia, there really are honest dealers in the world.

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University of Arizona Museum of Art Curator Olivia Miller authenticating Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017....
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August 24, 2017

Theft: The Universitetet i Bergen posts photos of stolen objects to Flickr

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The  Universitetet i Bergen has begun uploading images to Flickr of the approximately 400 objects stolen from the University Museum of Berg...
August 23, 2017

Hedge Hogs and the Art of Wealth: The Curious Background of Michael Steinhardt

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Michael Steinhardt has a long standing record of making astute financial decisions, many of which have led to stellar investment perform...