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Exhibition Review

Not far ‘Beyond El Dorado’

Posted on 22 October 2013

Grumblings about the British Museum, Colombian gold, and looting in public display.

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Looting Río Azul and “looting” the Detroit Institute of Arts

Posted on 27 July 2013

The controversy surrounding the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit

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Sad comments by Cleveland Museum curator: A looted Wari pouch ‘symbolizes the entire exhibition’

Posted on 6 November 2012

Remember that unprovenienced and underprovenanced Wari hide pouch

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Replica Monuments and Warrior Queens in Guatemala

Posted on 13 October 2012

I was delighted to hear that David Friedel, Juan Carlos Pérez, and their team have discovered a tomb at El Perú-Waka’

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More on pouches, pots, and my skewed perceptions

Posted on 18 August 2012

Thinking more about yesterday’s Wari pouch post

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Other antiquities on the Cleveland Museum website!

Posted on 17 August 2012

Lately the interwebs have been abuzz with news of the Cleveland Museum acquiring a Roman portrait head and a Maya pot

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Gold monkey head finally going back to Perú

Posted on 13 December 2011

The New Mexico History Museum has just announced that is is returning a particularly dubious (and well known) artifact to Perú.

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Provenience Curation? The MFA’s response and responsibility

Posted on 12 December 2011

The Boston Globe has published an article on the Museum of Fine Arts

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