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Orphans and the Berlin painter
Looting Matters | August 22nd 2008
Among the antiquities returned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York to Italy was an Attic red-figured amphora attributed to the Berlin painter (inv. 1985.11.5) (see earlier posting). The amphora, showing a man playing a kithara, surfaced at read more
James Cuno on wbur
Looting Matters | August 21st 2008
James Cuno was interviewed for the "Here & Now" show on wbur.org (Wednesday, August 20, 2008). The main themes were:UNESCO promoting the return of objectsthe Euphronios kraterencylopedic museums that present ‘multiple narratives of our human an read more
James Cuno & cultural property
Elginism | August 17th 2008
James Cuno wants trade in cultural properties to be a free market - because his institution would stand to gain from this, being relatively wealthy. Suffice to say, he arguments against Cuno’s reasoning have been covered many times already. read more
James Cuno & cultural property
Elginism | August 14th 2008
James Cuno wants trade in cultural properties to be a free market - because his institution would stand to gain from this, being relatively wealthy. Suffice to say, he arguments against Cuno’s reasoning have been covered many times already. read more
Cuno: "an anguished manifesto"
Looting Matters | August 5th 2008
Christian Tyler has reviewed James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? (2008) for the Financial Times (August 4, 2008). I presume it is aimed at those who have been buying antiquities as an investment and need a little reassurance in these days of the "credit read more
Some Thoughts on the Benin Bronzes
Looting Matters | July 29th 2008
James Cuno (in Who Owns Antiquity? [2008]) takes six objects from the holdings of the Art Institute of Chicago to demonstrate its character as an "encyclopedic museum". The third piece is a bronze plaque from Benin that was acquired in 1933; Cuno spe read more
"The Chinese Question"
Looting Matters | July 9th 2008
James Cuno raises some key questions about antiquities from China in Who Owns Antiquity? (Princeton UP, 2008). He draws attention to the way that the China Cultural Relics Recovery Program has been seeking to buy up Chinese objects that come on the m read more
New Response to James Cuno
Looting Matters | July 3rd 2008
There is a new review of James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? by Peter Stone, professor of heritage studies at Newcastle University ("Clinging on to their marbles", THE July 3, 2008). Stone disagrees with Cuno over cultural objects relating to indigenous read more
Partage: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Looting Matters | June 27th 2008
James Cuno has put the issue of partage back on the agenda. He explains in Who Owns Antiquity? how it worked: For many decades in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, archaeological finds were shared between the excavating party and the read more
The Politics of Culture: James Cuno and Michael Conforti
Looting Matters | June 26th 2008
I have been listening to the discussion between James Cuno and Michael Conforti (President of AAMD) on KCRW. They discussed Cuno's book and the AAMD's new guidelines on acquisitions. Key themes of partage and the licit market in antiquities popped up read more
Credibility gap
Artknows | June 25th 2008
James Cuno has just conducted another radio discussion, this time with former Iraq Museum curator Donny George on Wisconsin Public Radio. The exchange has been widely reported (see for example on SavingAntiquities.org) because of another Cuno-blooper read more
Controversy? What controversy?
Artknows | June 24th 2008
Kwame Opoku has just sent me a link to a dire and rambling KCRW radio conversation (thanks Kwame!) between James Cuno and Michael Conforti, President of AAMD (Association of American Museum Directors), discussing, yes, you guessed it, Cuno's new book read more
Reviews of Who Owns Antiquity?
Looting Matters | June 21st 2008
Reviews of James Cuno's controversial Who Owns Antiquity? (Princeton University Press, 2008) are now beginning to appear. As I have nearly finished writing my own response for an academic journal, I have gathered these views for convenience. They inc read more
James Cuno: "There is not a credible museum in this country that…
SAFECORNER: Cultural Heritage in Danger | June 19th 2008
On June 11, 2008, the "Here On Earth" series produced by Wisconsin Public Radio — featured Dr. James Cuno, director of the Chicago Art Institute and author of the book "Who Owns Antiquity?" and Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, former director of the Ira read more
Fragments of Antiquity at Harvard
Looting Matters | June 18th 2008
I have earlier commented on the 1995 purchase of more than 200 Apulian, Attic, Chalcidian, Corinthian, Etruscan, Laconian pot-fragments. (There are 182 catalogue entries in the Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin representing the exhibition at th read more
Roger Atwood reviews "Who Owns Antiquity" by James Cuno
SAFECORNER: Cultural Heritage in Danger | June 15th 2008
In Archaeology's Insider: Guardians of Antiquity? Roger Atwood, a SAFE Beacon Award Winner for his book Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World shares his views on James Cuno's "Who Owns Antiquity," previously r read more
Chippindale on Cuno
Looting Matters | June 7th 2008
Christopher Chippindale has reviewed James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? (2008) for The Art Newspaper. Chippindale considers it to bea clear, well-argued, and too partisan book about the vexed question of how great museums like his should collect ancien read more
"Terrifying places with insatiable appetites for works of art": t…
Artknows | June 6th 2008
The Art Newspaper has just published an interesting piece by Kavita Singh (left), an associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Do we really want the freer circulation of cultural goods?).In her article, Dr Singh describes extraor read more
Fiat Cuno
Artknows | June 5th 2008
Having already blogged (here and here) on one or two pre-publication articles and interviews by James Cuno, I've now found time to read a review copy of his book Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle for Our Ancient Heritage in which he takes a read more
James Cuno on the Icklingham Bronzes
Looting Matters | May 29th 2008
One of the issues that I hoped would be addressed by James Cuno was the decision to display one of the Icklingham bronzes in a loan exhibition, The Fire of Hephaistos (1996) no. 31, at Harvard University Art Museums. The piece, on loan from Shelby Wh read more
Never mind partage. Diplomacy is what's needed
Artknows | May 23rd 2008
The heat is rising under James Cuno's director's chair at the Art Institute of Chicago as a few privileged commentators get advanced copies of his forthcoming book — Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle for Our Ancient Heritage (left). (My c read more
British Museum grants permission to use image of Benin mask as co…
Artknows | May 7th 2008
I see the Chicago Sun Times has just run a piece on Art Institute of Chicago director James Cuno's eagerly awaited new book, Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage. The Sun Times piece (You Can't Have Your Stuff Back) q read more
Mr Cuno takes the gloves off
Artknows | April 22nd 2008
James Cuno (left), director of the Art Institute of Chicago, has never been backward in coming forward over cultural heritage issues and it's all grist to the mill. But his article in the online Yale Global (Who Owns the Past?), deserves a response. read more
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