Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com)
- Museums Should Dig In
The New York Times (Bernard Frischer) THIS [last] year saw the end of the five-year-long trial here of Marion True, a former antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The case against her — for the purchase of art allegedly looted...
- Minister Announces New Antiquities Guidelines
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni) Culture Minister Farouk Hosni on Sunday issued a list of new regulations to be adopted by his ministry in line with guidelines laid out in the recently approved Egyptian Antiquity Protection Law. The 199-article...
- A Wake-up Call For The Antiquities Market
International Herald Tribune (Souren Melikian ) Curators and collectors who track sculpture from Ancient Egypt, Etruscan bronzes from present-day Tuscany, or Hellenistic sculpture from around the Mediterranean and further afield in Iran, would be well...
- Museums Set Stricter Guidelines For Acquiring Antiquities
New York Times (Randy Kennedy) After a year and half of deliberations, the directors of the country’s largest art museums will announce new guidelines on Wednesday for how their institutions should collect antiquities, a volatile issue that has led...
- Loans Of Archaeological Material
Looting Matters (David Gill) Not strictly Egyptology, but certainly directly relevant, this piece by David Gill (member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales) on his Looting Matters blog looks at the...
Egypt
Guidelines on collecting of antiquities
http://tinyurl.com/koh9a (cleveland.com)
"Tuesday, the Archaeological Institute of America criticized guidelines on collecting of antiquities issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors . . . . Nevertheless, last month, the Association of Art Museum Directors released a survey stating that antiquities purchases by art museums represent less than 10 percent of the global trade in antiquities, suggesting that museums are not driving the black market in antiquities. The association has stated that it deplores illicit excavation of ancient sites but advises members to make decisions on a case-by-case basis regarding purchases of ancient objects or exhibitions of loaned works. The Archaeological Institute doesn't believe the association guidelines are strict enough. It wants museums to refuse to buy works that lack, among other things, legitimate export documentation from the country of origin."
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- Museums Should Dig In
The New York Times (Bernard Frischer) THIS [last] year saw the end of the five-year-long trial here of Marion True, a former antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The case against her — for the purchase of art allegedly looted...
- Minister Announces New Antiquities Guidelines
Al Masry Al Youm (Fathya el-Dakhakhni) Culture Minister Farouk Hosni on Sunday issued a list of new regulations to be adopted by his ministry in line with guidelines laid out in the recently approved Egyptian Antiquity Protection Law. The 199-article...
- A Wake-up Call For The Antiquities Market
International Herald Tribune (Souren Melikian ) Curators and collectors who track sculpture from Ancient Egypt, Etruscan bronzes from present-day Tuscany, or Hellenistic sculpture from around the Mediterranean and further afield in Iran, would be well...
- Museums Set Stricter Guidelines For Acquiring Antiquities
New York Times (Randy Kennedy) After a year and half of deliberations, the directors of the country’s largest art museums will announce new guidelines on Wednesday for how their institutions should collect antiquities, a volatile issue that has led...
- Loans Of Archaeological Material
Looting Matters (David Gill) Not strictly Egyptology, but certainly directly relevant, this piece by David Gill (member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales) on his Looting Matters blog looks at the...