by Administrator | Jan 20, 2022 | Cultural Heritage
On January 7th, a lawyer for the Attorney General’s Office of the Southern District of New York and a representative from Homeland Security filed a forfeiture action, seeking the seizure of 35 antiquities of Cambodian and Southeast Asian origin from billionaire...
by Administrator | Nov 18, 2021 | Cultural Heritage
Once again, a prominent auction house is taking advantage of French law to sell ancient American artifacts. In addition to pre-Columbian artifacts, the sale also contained several lots of items, many of them sacred items, from the Taino...
by Administrator | Oct 5, 2021 | Cultural Heritage
There has been a great deal of discussion online recently about the laws (or lack thereof) surrounding the trade in human remains. This trade has found a home on popular social media sites such as Facebook, TikTok and even Etsy, a site originally designed for the sale...
by Administrator | Sep 21, 2021 | Cultural Heritage
Earlier this month a 43 acre property in Missouri was sold at auction for $2.2 million. Normally a sale such as this would not garner international attention. But what made this particular plot of property unique, and the uniqueness that was used...
by Administrator | Aug 3, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
There are those that say there is no such thing as bad publicity. We beg to differ. Once again Hobby Lobby is in the news with another example of how the company once again purchased and displayed items of questionable origin in its museum. This time it is in...
by Administrator | Feb 9, 2021 | Cultural Heritage, Legal Issues for Museums
Craft retailer Hobby Lobby has amended its complaint against Christie’s to include the alleged prior owner of a cuneiform tablet dating from approximately 1600 BCE and bearing an inscription with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In May of last year, Hobby Lobby...
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