Cultural Property Observer

A Web Log Championing the Longstanding Interests of Collectors in the Preservation, Study, Display and Enjoyment of Cultural Artifacts Against an "Archaeology Over All" Perspective

Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Chinese Military Industrial Complex's Taste for Ancient Art

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The Financial Times has profiled the efforts of a Chinese arms manufacturer associated with the People Liberation Army to repatriate what th...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New York Observer on Medici Poloroids

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Michael Miller has commented on "self-appointed looting watchdog" David Gill's use of the Medici Polaroids in the New York Obs...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Backsliding on Long Term Loans?

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The extent of Italy’s compliance with its promise to share long term loans with American museums that had not voluntarily repatriated artifa...

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Leon Levy Foundation Seeks to Publish Partage Records

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A Culture Grrl post brought my attention to the Leon Levy Foundation's recent efforts to promote the publication of records from old dig...

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Appeal to Rescue Numismatic Archive

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Coins Weekly has carried an appeal seeking donations to restore numismatic manuscripts that suffered severe damage when the building housing...

Friday, May 21, 2010

Full Report on CPAC Hearing on Proposed Renewal of the MOU with Italy

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On May 6, 2010, the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee met to hear public comments about the proposed renewal of a...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Report on CPAC Hearing on Italian MOU-Part VI

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Here is the end of my report on the 5/6 CPAC hearing on the proposed renewal of the MOU with Italy. Clemente Marconi is a professor of Gre...

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Cultural Property Observer: Washington, DC, United States; Peter Tompa has collected ancient coins for almost 50 years. He has written and lectured about cultural property issues for a decade. He is a contributor to a chapter on numismatics in K. Fitz Gibbon ed., "Who Owns the Past?" (Rutgers 2005). He has lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch in an effort to ensure that the small businesses of the numismatic trade receive fair treatment from federal regulators. He currently serves as a board member of the Cultural Policy Research Institute and the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. He also has been a co-chair of the American Bar Association's Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee. His advocacy has received notice in the media, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Art Newspaper and the Voice of America. He hopes his views as a collector and lawyer will provide a counterpoint to the "archaeology over all" perspective found in most blogs about cultural property issues. This Web page is a public resource for general information and opinion about cultural property issues, and is not intended to be a source for legal advice. Opinions expressed here are the author's own.

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