Re-conceiving Restitutions - A look at the work (and one worker) behind the sensational restitutions accomplished by the New York District Attorney's office in Manhattan

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🤬 Can all you Just Stop Oil ⚖️💀🛢 eco-activists please stop with this nonsense already? Granted this Vincent Van Gogh painting is protected by glass but your acts of chaos don't invite actual engagement, nor is the artist or the museum responsible for today’s rapacious oil industry!

Orpheus, the poet, and his two sirens are going home. art-crime.blogspot.com/2022/09/orpheu…

🇺🇸 - 🇪🇬 5+1+9+1= 16 plundered Egyptian artefacts restituted, some from The Metropolitan Museum of Art connected to Simonian, Lotfi and M. Steinhardt investigations. Thanks to Alvin Bragg, HSI New York , France's OCBC & Germany's Bundeskriminalamt Kunst + Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities art-crime.blogspot.com/2022/09/5191-1…

“Our work continues, but today we are proud to stand with our partners to return these incredible pieces.”- HSI Acting Special Agent in Charge Ricky J. Patel. 4/4

#HSI New York joined Alvin Bragg & Egypt’s Consul General to return 16 stolen antiquities to Egypt.

“Today’s repatriation marks another victory in what has been a multi-year, international investigation into antiquities trafficking out of Egypt.” 1/4

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🇺🇸 - 🇪🇬 5+1+9+1= 16 plundered Egyptian artefacts restituted, some from The Metropolitan Museum of Art connected to Simonian, Lotfi and M. Steinhardt investigations. Thanks to Alvin Bragg, HSI New York , France's OCBC & Germany's Bundeskriminalamt Kunst + Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities art-crime.blogspot.com/2022/09/5191-1…

'HSI special agents and antiquities experts have worked for years to unravel the smuggler’s trail and locate the items we return today.'-Acting SAC Patel

The district attorney of Manhattan in New York presented Tuesday (September 6) 58 stolen antiquities worth an estimated $19 million it said it would be returning to Italy, but the battle is not finished yet.

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As New York D.A. Bragg Alvin Bragg announces the returns 58 stolen antiquities to the people of Italy, ARCA tries to put 21 of those pieces into context. art-crime.blogspot.com/2022/09/museum…

A Worm(ser) in the IADAA apple barrel art-crime.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-worm…

FAITH STOLEN - BREAKING NEWS

NRITYADEVI

This 15th Century Wooden Image of Nrityadevi Stolen in the 1970s From I-Baha Bahi, Patan Has Been Located in Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign Roshan Mishra Erin L. Thompson vj @ poetryinstone 🇮🇳 Emiline Smith Devendra R Bhattarai

ARCA is proud that some of our researchers provided research assistance for some of the artefacts listed in a recent July seizure document executed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thank you Manhattan-Domburg and the ATU Team, HSI New York & all scholars involved. Tweet Thread 👇🏻

#Cambodia 's Siem Reap is the host for the Sept 5-8 international conference on Cultural Property Protection: The Prevention of the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Properties – An ASEAN Perspective, hosted by Antiquities Coalition and Cambodian Ministry of Culture.