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Looting Matters
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com
A discussion of the ethics surrounding the collecting of archaeological objects and antiquities.
- Added on: Jun 23rd, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: LootingMatters
- Listed in: Arts Art History
- Tags: art archaeology museums theft looting cultural property
Recent Posts
Looting Matters: Antiquities Returned to Italy
Looting Matters: Antiquities Returned to Italy Comment on the handing over of two antiquities - a wall-painting from Boscoreale and a Corinthian krater - to Italian authorities. ...
Toxic Antiquities: the sales of 1985
Today's news that two antiquities had been handed over to the Italian authorities is a reminder of the continuing issue of toxic antiquities. The Corinthian krater had apparently been handled by Giacomo Medici and had then surfaced on the market in 1...
Antiquities returned to Italy
Two antiquities that had been due to be auctioned in New York in June this year have been handed over to Italian officials ("Looted artifacts being returned to Italy from NYC", AP December 2009). One was a fragment of Roman wall-painting that had bee...
Operation Tartuffo: has the ACCG detected a conspiracy?
Earlier this year it was suggested that I was "acting as an undisclosed agent of influence for some nationalistic, repatriation seeking foreign government, like that of Greece". Indeed it was even stated, without any hint of evidence, that I was payi...
Looting Matters: Coin Dealers and Collectors Lose Case Against the US State
Looting Matters: Coin Dealers and Collectors Lose Case Against the US State | | ...
Happy Thanksgiving
Looting Matters wishes to extend a "Happy Thanksgiving" to all its North American readers. (Today's snapshot tells me that 51% of readers in the last 24 hours came from the USA, followed by the UK at 17%.) Looting Matters has received over 100,000 v...
