Antiquities Coalition
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The Antiquities Coalition is leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2014
🚨Project Spotlight! Contemporary artist Maura Brewer uses art to examine money, crime, and art, and what it means to be a working artist today. 🖼️💸Check out her work—
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🇮🇩 ICYMI Indonesia warmly celebrates the return of artifacts from the Netherlands. The collection on display in the @NationalMuseum represents some of the 800 artifacts— once looted in conflict and smuggled under colonial rule— returned home. 🔗
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Update: This CPAC meeting has been postponed. Members of the public will have an additional opportunity to submit written comments and register to speak at the rescheduled meeting’s open session.
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🧰The Latest Tool for Securing Global Boarders— Network analysis of Russia’s elite and the art market exposes links between political power and collecting art and antiquities. Read the open-source article →
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🧧 Happy Lunar New Year! In this, the Year of the Snake, the AC calls again for the recovery of the missing Chinese Zodiac Heads, looted from the Qing Dynasty palace during the Second Opium War. You can help recover the #TenMostWantedAntiquities:
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🇺🇦 New insights into Ukraine’s Stolen Cultural Property in Curia Labs @ObserveConflict 2024 Report: 'Documenting the Appropriation of Cultural Assets from Kherson Art Museum – a Conflict Observatory Report.' 🔗
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☎️ Call for Papers! The @AURORAeuProject invites contributions for its upcoming volume, 'Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property – Examples from the Heritage Sector.' 🗓️ Apply by February 15, 2025 🔗
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As a member of the #Culture2030Goal Campaign, the AC holds that culture has an essential role to play in #SustainableDevelopment. Join #Culture2030Goal to help make culture a UN Sustainable Development Goal! 📿Want to learn more? Check out this FT Op Ed—
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🇺🇦 Ukraine charters new Cultural Heritage Protection Unit within its armed forces, offering cultural property essential protections amidst ongoing armed conflict. Learn more →
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⛏️Blood antiquities are financing the civil war in Yemen, feeding one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. Explore our immersive story maps to follow the journey of a looted Yemeni artifact through the black market:
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New ICOM Red Lists coming in 2025 for Greece and Turkey! 🇬🇷 🇹🇷 Red Lists detail categories of cultural objects that are vulnerable and in demand on the art market. 🚩Find the Red List for your country here:
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🌍 What's next for the #G20 and Culture? The latest Policy Brief from the Antiquities Coalition details how the Culture Working Group can better protect world heritage. 🔗Read it here →
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🖼️For years the Italian mafia exchanged contemporary masterpieces, some by Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol, like currency in underground drugs and arms trafficking. Now recovered, many are returning to public view. 🔗
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📢BREAKING NEWS— The UN General Assembly adopts resolution A/79/L.16, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin.” The AC applauds this new resolution's focus on accountability across the entire supply chain. More in our blog:
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🚩NEW INSIGHTS from AC Chairman and Founder Deborah Lehr on the UN's latest resolution on #CulturalHeritage. The AC celebrates this bold step to address the illicit trade in antiquities. But the work is far from over. 💡Lehr's complete remarks:
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Enhanced Protection under the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention unites three important considerations to #ProtectHeritage during conflict: 🔍Wider scope 🗝️Ease of access 🛡️Strong legal protection Learn more!
At the request of the Ukrainian authorities, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict just granted temporary enhanced protection to Babyn Yar, the site of one of the largest massacres of the ‘Holocaust by bullets’, and to the Odesa Literary Museum, in #Ukraine. Full press release:
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🚨Check out this New Online Course: "Due Diligence in the Antiquities Market" from @artmarketacadem and Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis.
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