#art repatriation

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Metropolitan Opera Board President Allegedly Kept Stolen Cambodian Relics - OperaWire

Following a photoshoot of a $42 million mansion in San Francisco, which belongs to Sloan Lindemann Barnett, the Cambodian government appears

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE?????

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Please read: survey

Hey everybody if you could take a little 8 question survey on art repatriation (returning art and artifacts to their original cultures) that would be amazing! I am writing a research paper on it and would love to hear some voices on this matter. Thanks so much!

https://www.supersurvey.com/QP2TUQPAW

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Ancient artefact back in Kingdom - Khmer Times

The “King of Khmer Medicine” artefact has been returned by a Cambodian-American man who bought it in the United States.

After decades of being overseas, the “King of Khmer Medicine” artefact has been returned by a Cambodian-American man who bought it in the United States.

The National Museum yesterday held a welcoming ceremony for the ancient Buddhist statue.

David Leng, the man who brought the statue, said it came from Hawaii, and that it was handed to the government in order to allow younger generations of Cambodians to know their ancestral heritage.

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The British Museum has staunchly refused to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. A team of archaeologists are working on a technological

this is the newest development in the Elgin Marbles controversy, and here are my two cents as someone who did extensive research on this and the larger world of art/artifacts repatriation as part of a school speechwriting project:

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30 MEPS Ask Boris Johnson to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece

BRUSSELS 13 November 2020

Thirty members of the European Parliament, representing 12 EU countries, will be asking the British Museum to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece ahead of the final Brexit agreement.

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Reclaiming India’s Stolen Cultural Heritage

Indian activists seek to recover missing idols, the victims of colonial plundering and contemporary thievery.

“It belongs in a museum,” was Indiana Jones’ tagline after rescuing archeological artworks from the hands of his enemies across the world. Nearly 40 years after the release of the first Indiana Jones film, however, the idea of cultural property is under scrutiny. The relationship between global north and south has been reshaped and the new understanding of colonization has reframed the narrative and the villains within it.

“History belongs to its geography” is the motto guiding a global network of Indian activists and art-lovers on a quest to find India’s lost heritage. Aiming to return antiquities allegedly stolen from their motherland, the volunteer-run India Pride Project (IPP) uses social media to identify artifacts worldwide and investigates cases coordinating authorities, global agencies, museums and a small tightly-knit curator community.

Claims for the restoration of the Indian cultural past surfaces amid a debate across governments and artistic institutions in Europe. While Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum announced that it will return to Sri Lanka and Indonesia all their stolen art, French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned a report urging a change to the country’s heritage law and recommending the restitution of artworks taken from Africa during the colonial era. Simultaneously, experts highlight that part of the opaque multibillion dollar art market profits from crime and war.

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Art Repatriation? This is your 9 minute crash course in cultural property law. From Sotheby's Institute for Art, this short film looks at the 1860 looting of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace and charts the journey of 2 bronze animal heads which, in 2009, made it back to their country of origin.