July 7, 2020

Caveat Emptor - if the last name is....

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Caveat Emptor if the name on the collecting history of your Egyptian artifacts are: ⇏ Ashraf Omar Eldarir (see our earlier post today). ...
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Ashraf Omar Eldarir, A US Citizen, indicted for smuggling Egyptian antiquities

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (HSI) - Cultural Property, Arts and Antiquities (CPAA) unit within the U.S. Department o...
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July 6, 2020

Online Conference - Fighting the Trafficking and Illegal Circulation of Documentary Heritage

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Conference Title:  Fighting the Trafficking and Illegal Circulation of Documentary Heritage Date:   7 July 2020 - Virtual Event Tim...
July 4, 2020

Exploring Stolen Memory

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Personal Effects of Antonio Amigo Sanchez. In January 2018, in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day, a traveling exhibition produced by the ...
July 1, 2020

Auction House Seizure: A Roman marble portrait head of the Emperor Septimius Severus, circa 200 CE seized at Christie's

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Image Left:  Christie's Catalogue where the stolen sculpture was identified. Image Right:  Showroom image of the stolen head of Emper...
June 29, 2020

Object Alert: An Illicit antiquity breezes through the windy city

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Hindman Auction Catalogue - 16 June 2020 Lot 157 Most of the time, when one thinks of illicit antiquities one imagines them transiti...
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June 24, 2020

Another looted conflict antiquity from the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon seized. This time at Royal Athena Galleries in New York

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Left Image provided by the NYDA's Office and HSI-ICE Right Image from Royal-Athena Galleries catalog When speaking of the effect...
June 23, 2020

The Cost of Trinkets: France detains five art market actors in relation to a network believed to be trafficking in conflict antiquities

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Between Monday and Tuesday, law enforcement authorities in France have detained five individuals, bringing them in for questioning in r...
June 18, 2020

Survival selfie of Vincent Van Gogh's artnapped painting "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen."

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Art loss detective Arthur Brand has provided two photos, of the front and verso, of the artnapped Vincent Van Gogh painting "The P...
June 14, 2020

On the run high-flying art dealer Inigo Philbrick apprehended

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Image Right: "Humidity", 1982 by Jean-Michel Basquiat acrylic, oilstick, and Xerox collage In a reality that seems like a ...