Protecting national treasures
via Bangkok Post, 02 Sep 2019: Last month Unesco Bangkok organised a forum for art collectors and others involved in ...
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Tag: unprovenanced artefacts
Posts about unprovenanced artefacts, or artefacts whose origins or source cannot be identified.
How to Successfully Fight the Illicit Trade in Stolen Art and Antiquities in Asia? Remove an Antiquated English Law from Hong Kong’s Legal System
via Antiquities Coalition, December 2018: Prof. Steven Gallagher is the other co-convener on the session about Heritage Management Law and Policy in ...
SOAS statue: school denies it was smuggled, but provenance has not yet been established
via The Nation, 16 June 2018: SOAS denies that the donated statue was smuggled but critics point out that the ...
London university accused of accepting smuggled sculpture
via The Nation, 14 June 2018: A developing story about the donation of a Lopburi-style sculpture to the School of ...
SAFE briefing on the state of antiquities trade in Vietnam
Saving Antiquities For Everyone (SAFE) has a country report for the state of antiquities trade in Vietnam. The author of ...
Lack of object history cast shadow on many museums’ collections
A special report about high-profile returns from museums to India; topical because it mentions Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum. Statue of ...
Asian Civilisations Museum paid more than $1 million to Kapoor
Invoices from disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor show that the Asian Civilisations Museum paid over a $1 million for items ...
Cambodia’s Looting Crisis
Sidney Jhingran, a reader and student from the University of Toronto, shares this article he first contributed for his campus ...
Smuggled Ban Chiang loot raises questions on the ethics of art
The case of the smuggled Ban Chiang artefacts unearthed earlier this month in California has far-reaching consequences for museums and ...
Sunken treasure cheer turns sour
Legal battle between a German looter treasure-hunter and his German agent, both based in Singapore. Tilman Walterfang looted recovered a ...
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