France's top museums, musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac & Musée Guimet, have shamefully bowed to 🇨🇳's propaganda by replacing "Tibet" with "Xizang." This alarming distortion of history erases Tibetan identity and must not be allowed. Cultural integrity and truth are at stake. tibetanreview.net/top-french-mus…

BREAKING: Alvin Bragg has returned 14 looted antiquities to Türkiye, valued at more than $8.3 million. They include: J Paul Getty Museum: "Head of a Youth,” looted from Bubon in 1968 and purchased from Swiss-based dealer Nicholas Koutoulakis in 1971 for $90,000

In 2020; researchers uncovering a stunning Ancient Greek mosaic of Dionysus in Dion, Macedonia, Greece. It’s a lot of work that requires meticulous attention to details but the result is absolutely worth it. Go behind the scenes with the team of conservators at Dion and get a

The backstory here is very interesting…

British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan discusses the £50m BP donation, addressing ethical concerns, reputational risks, the Parthenon Marbles, and the recent thefts scandal ow.ly/1iEB50To3hj

The The Art Newspaper has an article up about our work: A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects "@MusemofLoot aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks" theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/16/a-n…

Corporate corpse trafficking Cc: Dr. Damien Huffer @[email protected] Shawn Graham @[email protected]

The Getty has returned to Turkey an ancient bronze funerary couch dating back to ca. 530 BCE that was looted in the 1980s from a tomb near modern-day Manisa. getty.edu/news/getty-ret…

New California law on Holocaust claims, AB 2867, provides that California law applies in suits brought by a California resident involving the theft of art during the Holocaust or other political persecutions. Directly impacts Cassirer case... tlblog.org/governor-newso…

El Museo del Prado ofrece acceso libre online a más de 11.500 publicaciones de finales del siglo XV a principios del XX a través de su #BibliotecaDigital museodelprado.es/actualidad/not…

“The problem with Hancock’s theory is that he nitpicks existing archaeological research ... There is no archaeological evidence within the Grand Canyon and Chaco Canyon to support his claims.” Read more: loom.ly/fG2oogo

How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits propublica.org/article/how-pr…

A welcome (if belated) addition: Princeton University Art Museum Appoints MaryKate Cleary as Curator of Provenance | Princeton University Art Museum artmuseum.princeton.edu/about/press-ro…

In the name of an obscure and dubious ideology, ISIS rendered a unique witness of human achievement into rubble. But should we rebuild the Temple of Bel at Palmyra? Read our latest ANE Today by Maamoun Abdulkarim and Jacques Seigne here: buff.ly/3zoLKvx

The Getty Museum was created as a similar tax dodge: "For the ultrawealthy, donating valuables like artwork, real estate and stocks to their own charitable foundation is an alluring way to cut their tax bills."

“The fireworks display was supposed to be a dramatic kick-off for PST Art: Art and Science Collide, the Getty’s $20m exhibition extravaganza. Instead, debris from the fireworks struck several guests—a few of whom needed first-aid treatment.”

New California law could change outcome of a Nazi-looted Pissarro claim, mandating state law apply in Holocaust art theft cases, reversing a recent court ruling ow.ly/mcJ150TrGlt