looted antiquities

January 28, 2012

Deconstructing Aphrodite: the Getty Art Museum, looted antiquities and the art trade

The 4th century BC marble sculpture of winged griffins at center of controversy, acquired illegally by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1985Source: NPR An interesting […]
September 25, 2012

The AAMD in search of new markets

It’s not every day that one finds archival gems on the Internet, especially coming straight from the  Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). Flash back to […]
October 1, 2016

The long summer of 2016

by Marc Masurovsky I confess. The absence of any postings on the plundered-art blog this past summer was as a direct result of the thrashing that we […]
November 11, 2016

Swiss foreign cultural policy?

by Marc Masurovsky At a time when one French Jewish family is beating its head against a brick wall to recover a painting by John Constable, […]