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Book Review

The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac

Posted on 14 August 2015

First in a series of art crime, antiquities trafficking, and provenance book reviews. Authors and publishers, get in touch!

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Ransoms and Repatriations: the Maori Motunui panels

Posted on 5 July 2014

Hidden in 1800s by Māori fleeing war, 5 carved panels were smuggled

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Two pots, two stories: vignette on the looting of Guatemala’s Maya past

Posted on 1 April 2014

How does an ancient Maya vase end up in a UK museum?

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Wrongs and rights at the National Gallery of Australia

Posted on 8 March 2014

Positive international partnership brings Peruvian gold and praise; absurd denial of wrong-doing in stolen idol case brings resounding criticism.

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Intact Mexican shaft tomb found, guarded by shaman figurine

Posted on 6 March 2014

A rare, intact western Mexican shaft tomb has been found by archaeologists

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The realities of auction catalogue analysis

Posted on 17 February 2014

Last year there was a big rumble-grumble about Sotheby’s Paris’ sale of a portion of the Barbier-Mueller collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities.

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So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend

Posted on 25 March 2013

Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.

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The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2

Posted on 4 March 2013

In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.

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Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of ‘the oldest’

Posted on 19 September 2012

The logo for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture website is about my favourite thing

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Who is googling? Evangelize or let it rest?

Posted on 7 July 2012

>For the past few days a lot of my brain juice has been focused on the website for Trafficking Culture project

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Believability, the burden of proof and Occam’s Razor

Posted on 29 April 2012

OR Carl Sagan breaks it down

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Antiquities in the Media: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Posted on 27 February 2012

The use of antiquities in films and television shows

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