Angling to auction off a 5,000-year-old Anatolian statue, Christie’s submitted evidence Monday that casts doubt on a bid by Turkey to repatriate the rare idol.
A day after craft chain Hobby Lobby agreed to pay a $3 million fine and return smuggled Iraqi artifacts, two professors called on the company to reveal the source of thousands of other antiquities in its massive Bible-themed collection.
Last week, Cultural Heritage Partners filed an amicus brief on behalf of four current and former members of Congress in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Investing in art is about more than flipping works for a quick profit, especially today when the risks are dramatized in one scandal after another. Buying a beautiful painting, unique antiquity, or culturally significant object can yield personal, aesthetic and financial returns.
Even without the bright orange demolition notice pasted onto its double doors, Christian Street Baptist Church wouldn’t be the most striking building in South Philadelphia.
Last December, Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, a $305 billion transportation funding bill with significant implications for historic preservation.
Last December, Congress passed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, a $305 billion transportation funding bill with significant implications for historic preservation.
The US Congress is close to passing the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016, which would make it easier in the US for heirs of Holocaust victims to recover art looted by the Nazis—but the clock is ticking as the legislative season nears its end.
U.S. District Court Judge Renée Marie Bumb has denied New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino’s motion to dismiss a federal civil rights lawsuit against him brought by the 3,000 member Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation (the “Tribe”).
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