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Book Review

Hitler’s Art Thief by Susan Roland

Posted on 2 October 2015

On Hildebrand Gurlitt, amasser of the now-famous Gurlitt art hoard containing Nazi-looted pieces but largely disappointing.

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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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Sacking the Necropolis: how 100 Peruvian mummy textiles ended up in Sweden

Posted on 9 June 2014

“Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru“. Now that is a headline I like to see.

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“Hell yes, it was smuggled”: Stolen Cambodian statue is not the first Norton Simon has returned

Posted on 24 May 2014

Collector spent $16mil over 2 years mostly on smuggled Asian antiquities.

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De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France

Posted on 4 April 2014

12m long manuscript penned in the Bastille, stolen in 1982, smuggled into Switzerland, and ruled a good faith purchase in 1998.

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Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why?

Posted on 13 November 2012

Many of you have been following the odyssey of Odyssey Marine for some time.

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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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Returns from a Swiss Collector: Anonymity Amnesty?

Posted on 11 December 2011

Continuing with the idea of the anonymous Swiss collector as an auction catalogue trope, I want to raise the question of returns.

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