Stealing Culture

10/17/2023

https://hyperallergic.com/850350/a-new-york-museums-house-of-bones/

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

10/14/2023

Stolen art = Stealing Culture!!!

Thieves in Scotland made off with the painting “Children Wading” in 1989. The work was recently returned after showing up at an auction house in northern England.

05/13/2023

To our many supporters, please keep up the work and the pressure! Clearly, YOU are making the difference!! Thank you!!! https://hyperallergic.com/821062/met-museum-will-hire-team-to-investigate-looted-art/ The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Darrell Jackson Nicole Drake Crawford

04/30/2023

Another example of reversing ! Darrell Jackson Nicole Drake Crawford

The Nigerian government has recognized the Benin bronzes as belonging to the traditional king, Oba Ewuare II, rather than to the state.

04/26/2023

“We wanted to explore ideas of control in relation to historic objects,” Roger Michel, IDA’s executive director, told Artnet News. “The British Museum has sculptures it took from someone else and won’t give back. Now, thanks to us, it has a fairly interesting sculpture in its own right that was forced on the museum, but has no power to remove.”

In a bid to draw attention to the debate surrounding the British Museum's Parthenon's sculptures, IDA printed a miniature Selene horse.

04/26/2023

The Idol Wing, a special unit within the Tamil Nadu police department tasked with recovering looted artifacts, has recovered 55 Hindu idols that are believed to have been looted from temples across India.

Indian police have tracked down 55 Hindu idols that were looted from temples across the country at the home of an art collector.

04/18/2023

We are very proud of our Stealing Culture students! Isabel joined us on our study abroad last summer and we so proud of her hard work!

04/18/2023

"Police from the Patrimonio Histórico division confiscated the works on two separate raids in the coastal city of Valencia—the faux Velázquez on February 8, and the rest some weeks later."

Spanish police seized five Francisco Goya and Diego Velázquez forgeries that were being sold for a collective €76 million ($84 million).

04/17/2023

One work in the group, by Paul Gauguin, has an estimated worth between $10 million and $15 million

04/14/2023

"Authorities from France and the U.S. raided a Puerto Rico-based foundation dedicated to the work of the pioneering Op-Art painter Victor Vasarely yesterday."

The raid marks the latest chapter in a long legal battle between Vasarely’s heirs over ownership of his work.