seizure – Institute of Museum Ethics

Steinhardt Redux: Feds Seize Fresco Looted from Italian World Heritage Site, Destined for New York Billionaire

December 4, 2013April 10, 2017 Elizabeth Sirhall 0 Comments American, antiquities, event, getty museum, greece, history, iraq, italy, looted antiquities, museums, naples, New York, ownership, provenance, seizure, state department, unesco, war, website, world war II

Crime & Theft News

Tale of Glorious Art and Not So Glorious Thieves

July 6, 2013April 10, 2017 Elizabeth Sirhall 0 Comments antiquities, art theft, conference, crime, event, historical, history, italy, looted art, museums, seizure, theft

News War, Looting and Repatriation

Putin hands over contested books to Moscow’s Jewish Museum

June 25, 2013April 10, 2017 Elizabeth Sirhall 0 Comments American, books, jewish museum, museums, ownership, seizure

News War, Looting and Repatriation

Looted Holocaust-Era Paintings In France Returned To Jewish Families

February 25, 2013April 10, 2017 Kelsey 0 Comments austria, building, france, germany, history, holocaust, looted art, mission, museum of modern art, museums, nazi, paris, seizure, war, world war II

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News: Russia held in contempt in case that sparked its U.S. art-loan ban

January 28, 2013April 10, 2017 Kelsey 0 Comments American, books, boston, exhibitions, germany, getty museum, Metropolitan Museum, museums, New York, ownership, poland, seizure, state department, war

Archaeology, Artifacts & Antiquities News

Museums Studying Dealer’s Artifacts

July 28, 2012April 10, 2017 Kelsey 0 Comments antiquities, germany, Metropolitan Museum, New York, provenance, seizure

Archaeology, Artifacts & Antiquities News

The Curse of the Outcast Artifact

July 15, 2012April 10, 2017 Kelsey 0 Comments American, antiquities, archaeology, asia society, bio, boston, building, cambodia, Chicago, collecting, documents, donors, egypt, future, getty museum, guidelines, history, looted antiquities, looted art, looting, Metropolitan Museum, museums, New York, ownership, press, provenance, seizure, survey, united states of america

News

The Leopold Settles and Deaccessions

June 21, 2011 Tom McGee 0 Comments austria, seizure, theft

“Countess Kuefstein at the Easel” by Anton Romako will stay at the Leopold The Leopold Museum in Vienna has reached

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The French Government Is Launching a Task Force Dedicated to Returning Nazi-Era Loot From Its National Collections https://t.co/AJ2HGdIIfm
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More regarding Sackler support.... https://t.co/0fUVwuuS9p
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South London Gallery returned funding to Sackler Trust last year https://t.co/Qzn2f2vNCa
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Sackler Trust cancels 1m donation to National Portrait Gallery | Museums Association https://t.co/2KbKiLgHus
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It will be interesting to see how other museums respond. https://t.co/dG45wBw55e
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After Breaking Thumb off Terracotta Warrior, Man Points Finger at Museum https://t.co/UMtgcOUm0A
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An Exhibition About a Book That Rejuvenated an Indigenous Culture https://t.co/p2PP802Sds
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The Rijksmuseum Becomes the Latest European Institution to Consider Returning Looted Artifacts From Its Collection https://t.co/EFrowFA4sm
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The momentum is building... https://t.co/TjjJAnaAqJ
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Culture ministers from 16 German states agree to repatriate artefacts looted in colonial era https://t.co/sQQiUiSbW7
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Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements https://t.co/G3jOAkg5Pi
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