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UPDATED > USA vs One Ancient Mosaic: A Looted Syrian Masterpiece in Los Angeles
Rampant looting across Syria during its prolonged civil war has been well documented through satellite imagery and on the ground reports, but evidence that the looted antiquities are emerging in the...
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The Sidon Bull’s Head: Court Record Documents a Journey Through the Illicit...
A remarkable document filed with New York’s Supreme Court on Friday reconstructs the journey of an ancient sculpture of a bull’s head from its theft during the Lebanese civil war through the shadowy...
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Hobby Lobby’s Legal Expert Speaks: “I can’t rule out…they used my advice to...
In July 2010, Steve Green, president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, travelled to the United Arab Emirates to inspect a massive hoard of ancient artifacts. A year earlier, Green and his...
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UPDATED > Help Wanted: We’re Tracking Down Objects Sold By Nancy and Doris...
In the wake of the arrest of the Manhattan antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener, we’re teaming up with our friends at the India Pride Project to track down the ancient objects she and her mother Doris...
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UPDATED > Manhattan Dealer Nancy Wiener Arrested: Criminal Complaint Alleges...
Antiquities dealer Nancy Wiener was arrested Wednesday morning in Manhattan and charged with conspiring with international smuggling networks to buy, smuggle, launder and sell millions of dollars worth...
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UPDATED > Inside the ISIS Looting Operation: U.S. Lawsuit Reveals Terror...
A civil lawsuit filed today by the U.S. government sheds startling new light on the brutality of the Syrian looting operations of the Islamic State. The lawsuit seeks the forfeiture of four looted...
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The End of the Beginning: NGA Returns Kushan Buddha and Two Kapoor Objects
On Monday, the National Gallery of Australia returned three more antiquities to India in light of evidence – much of it first made public here – that they had been stolen from temples or...
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The Missing Link: Subhash Kapoor’s Suppliers in India Are (Finally) Getting...
In a series of aggressive police raids over the past month, Indian authorities have disrupted a large network of alleged thieves and smugglers that for decades has plundered ancient temples from...
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The Lessons of Palmyra: Iconoclasm in the era of Clickbait
Last December I was invited to Harvard to participate in a round table on ISIS and iconoclasm. The event, organized by archaeologist Bastien Varoutsikos and sponsored by Harvard’s Standing Committee on...
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UPDATED > Asia Week Arrest: Japanese Dealer Charged With Selling Stolen Art
Japanese antiquities dealer Tatsuzo Kaku was arrested at Asia Week and charged on March 14th with criminal possession of a looted 2nd Century Buddhapada sculpture valued at more than $1 million, court...
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Asia Week Raids: New Details on the Christie’s Seizures
This week, a series of five federal raids during New York’s Asia week led to the seizure of at least eight looted antiquities and the arrest of at least one dealer. This is the first of several posts...
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Busted: Asia Week Raids Reveal Scope of Illicit Trade in Asian Art
Federal agents raided the Nancy Wiener Gallery on Thursday, the latest move in an aggressive crack down on the trade in ancient Asian art that has targeted several leading dealers and auction houses...
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The Crennan Report: The NGA’s Ex Post Facto Due Diligence Finds 22...
In an unprecedented review of its Asian art collection, the National Gallery of Australia has determined that 22 of the 36 objects examined to date have “insufficient or questionable provenance...
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Operation Antiquity: Prison for Antiquities Dealer Behind Looting and Tax...
Federal agents descend upon the Bowers Museum during an early morning raid in Santa Ana Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. UPDATE: My article on the case has been posted at The Art Newspaper here. UPDATE: The...
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Ball State’s Kapoor Return Reveals New False Provenance
On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents recovered a Chola period bronze from Ball State University’s Owsley Museum, marking yet another trail in the path of stolen Indian artifacts sold...
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The Seated Buddha Goes Home: Nancy Wiener and National Gallery of Australia...
The National Gallery of Australia announced Thursday that its prized second century Seated Buddha would be “donated” to India after the museum struck a deal for its return with Nancy Wiener, the New...
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The Kushan Buddhas: Nancy Wiener, Douglas Latchford and New Questions about...
In 2005, Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum was offered a rare sculpture of a Seated Buddha carved from red sandstone in the second century. It was from India’s ancient city of Mathura, the second capital...
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Danti’s Inference: The Known Unknowns Of ISIS and Antiquities Looting
Over the last month, a new meme has spread like a sandstorm across the internet: Looting of antiquities, we’re told, has become “the second largest source of revenue” for the hated terror group ISIS....
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Hecht’s Footprints: Haverford College Opens Up About Source of Their Greek Vases
American antiquities dealer Robert Hecht died in February 2012 after six decades at the top of the trade in recently looted Classical antiquities. I’ve recently learned that some of that infamous...
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