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Hot Doc: A Damage Assessment at the Getty Finds Forgery, Fraud and Fabricated...
The true cost of looting has always been hard to measure: how does one account for what is lost? Perhaps this is why some — Americans in particular, it seems — tend to think of looting as a victimless...
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The Best of Chasing Aphrodite 2011
Happy New Year! We want to share our profound thanks for the 24,000 visits we’ve had since we launched this site with the release of Chasing Aphrodite last May. You’ve helped make the book a success...
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Arnold Peter Weiss’ Coin Partner and The Getty Connection
A surprising detail emerged while we were reading about Nomos AG, the Swiss coin dealership whose principal, Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, was arrested on January 3 for felony possession of an ancient coin...
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Hecht Trial Ends With No Verdict, Medici Conviction Affirmed
The criminal trial of Robert E. Hecht ended this week with no verdict, while Giacomo Medici’s conviction for trafficking looted antiquities was upheld last month by Italy’s high court. Here is Jason’s...
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The Met’s Von Bothmer Collection May Be Evidence In Princeton Criminal Case
The dozens of vase fragments that the Metropolitan Museum of Art returned to Italy last month came from the private collection of its former antiquities curator Dietrich von Bothmer. They were sent to...
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Robert E. Hecht Jr., leading antiquities dealer over five decades, dead at 92.
Bob Hecht died quietly at home in Paris at about noon on Wednesday, according to his wife Elizabeth. He was 92 years old. Here’s my obituary in the LA Times. When Robert E. Hecht Jr. arrived at the...
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Almagia Objects Traced to Boston MFA, San Antonio Museum, Indiana University.
We’ve heard back from more museums about objects they acquired from Edoardo Almagia, the Italian dealer at the center of an investigation into the illicit antiquities trade. As we’ve reported...
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Introducing WikiLoot: Your Chance to Fight the Illicit Antiquities Trade
[UPDATE: Our WikiLoot proposal has sparked a great conversation about the project. Thanks for all the comments submitted below and on the application, which you can find here. Collaboration is at the...
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The Cleveland List: 21 objects Turkey wants Cleveland Museum of Art to Return
UPDATE: Steven Litt at the Cleveland Plain Dealer has published an update on the Cleveland case here, saying the case “could shake the foundations of encyclopedic museums.” The Cleveland Museum was...
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Chasing Aphrodite at Google: Jason Felch on the Illicit Antiquities Trade and...
On February 10th, Jason visited the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA to talk about Chasing Aphrodite and to solicit help with a new initiative, WikiLoot. The talk was part of the Authors@Google program,...
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