Egypt
See the above article, with interviews, for the full story.
- Slow Negotiations Between Italy And The Getty
http://tinyurl.com/jkkw6 (calendarlive.com) For those of you following the important negotiations taking place, world wide, over the repatriation of items which were removed under dubious circumstances from their country of origin, there's a review...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...
- Museums On Trial
http://www.archaeology.org/0603/etc/conversations.html An Archaeology Magazine special interview with Ellen Herscher about the trial of key J. Paul Getty representatives, and its implications for other purchasing policies of US museums in the future:...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- Met Will Return Disputed Art To Italy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aA7bnWw4c9DQAn update on Bloomberg site regarding claims for the return of illegally sold artefacts, highlighted by the Italian legal position taken against the John Paul Getty Museum: "By holding...
Egypt
Who owns the past?
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/nation/14024323.htm
"Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was brought out of Egypt in 1952. Hawass insists that it was looted from storage near the archaeological site in the early 1990s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reluctantly returning to Italy the so-called Euphronios krater, a Greek vessel it purchased in 1972. The vase, one of the most beautiful of its type, had been only recently dug up and spirited out of the country when acquired, a history the museum has long denied. Peru is demanding that Yale University return an entire collection of antiquities excavated at Machu Picchu in 1912 that it insists was deposited at Yale only as a loan. New York City antiquities dealer Frederick Schultz is in jail for conspiring to buy looted Egyptian antiquities. The curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, th very proper Marion True, is on trial in Italy for conspiring to acquire illegally exported classical antiquities for the museum.
What's going on is that the entire world of buying and selling antiquities has been turned upside down.
The strict standards written in 1970 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the illicit transfer of cultural property are being newly enforced by the countries where the objects originate. Loose rules have been set aside, and those who continue to operate by them are getting caught in a trap.
At bottom is the question: Who owns culture?"
"Zahi Hawass, Egypt's top man in charge of antiquities, has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,200 year-old mummy mask the museum purchased in 1998, which it believed was brought out of Egypt in 1952. Hawass insists that it was looted from storage near the archaeological site in the early 1990s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reluctantly returning to Italy the so-called Euphronios krater, a Greek vessel it purchased in 1972. The vase, one of the most beautiful of its type, had been only recently dug up and spirited out of the country when acquired, a history the museum has long denied. Peru is demanding that Yale University return an entire collection of antiquities excavated at Machu Picchu in 1912 that it insists was deposited at Yale only as a loan. New York City antiquities dealer Frederick Schultz is in jail for conspiring to buy looted Egyptian antiquities. The curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, th very proper Marion True, is on trial in Italy for conspiring to acquire illegally exported classical antiquities for the museum.
What's going on is that the entire world of buying and selling antiquities has been turned upside down.
The strict standards written in 1970 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the illicit transfer of cultural property are being newly enforced by the countries where the objects originate. Loose rules have been set aside, and those who continue to operate by them are getting caught in a trap.
At bottom is the question: Who owns culture?"
See the above article, with interviews, for the full story.
- Slow Negotiations Between Italy And The Getty
http://tinyurl.com/jkkw6 (calendarlive.com) For those of you following the important negotiations taking place, world wide, over the repatriation of items which were removed under dubious circumstances from their country of origin, there's a review...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...
- Museums On Trial
http://www.archaeology.org/0603/etc/conversations.html An Archaeology Magazine special interview with Ellen Herscher about the trial of key J. Paul Getty representatives, and its implications for other purchasing policies of US museums in the future:...
- Controversy Re St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/7rfrv (St Louis Post Dispatch) "A one-time forger and art smuggler has accused the St. Louis Art Museum of purchasing in 1998 a stolen Egyptian mummy mask and displaying it in its galleries. Museum director Brent Benjamin said the history...
- Met Will Return Disputed Art To Italy
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aA7bnWw4c9DQAn update on Bloomberg site regarding claims for the return of illegally sold artefacts, highlighted by the Italian legal position taken against the John Paul Getty Museum: "By holding...