The public release of the revised Collections Management Policy of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art seems to have been prompted by Lord Renfrew's SAFE lecture. Lee Rosenbaum on Culturegrrl has some useful comparisons to make with the revised (and enlightened) policy at the J. Paul Getty Museum where the local laws of countries are taken into account.
Rosenbaum also comments on the "cloudy" transparency at the Met ...
Perhaps Thomas Campbell could talk about the implications of the new policy in his next YouTube "broadcast".
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Lions from the archaic Panionion
Source: MMA In 1992 three terracotta antefixes decorated with the heads of lions were acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
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Source: Sotheby's A marble head of Alexander the Great has been seized in New York (reported in " Judge Orders Return of Ancien... -
Tarentine funerary relief Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Manhattan DA has provided limited details about the recent return of antiqu...
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If international museums can no longer "own" antiquities either through purchase on the antiquities market or through partage , wh...
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Join us Thursday January 15 for a free public lecture: Professor Colin Renfrew, “Combating the Illicit Antiquities Trade: a Time for Clarity,” at CUNY Graduate Center in New York
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