Professor Folarin Shyllon's "Something Grave Happend and Imperial Rule of Law is Sustaining It!"

"[E]conomic considerations have always trumped human rights" (2019: 280)

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA606173686&v=2.1&it=r&asid=d85615b8

postscript:
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/tribute-late-professor-folarin-olawale-shyllon-who-fought-over-50-years-against-illicit-trafficking

#unesco #beninbronze #emwinarre #colonialism #culturalheritage #restitution #africa #imperialism #looting #westernhegemony #batorthesis #racism #economictotalitarianism #laws #culturalproperty #humanrights

Reposting from Cambridge University Press-Archaeology:
Why should we care about #archaeology, #monuments, traditions, art, and architecture when survival itself is threatened? Read Morag M. Kersel's blog for the SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social: ▶️ cup.org/46Ryg9X

#culturalheritage
#culturalproperty

https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/08/14/why-care-about-culture-when-the-world-is-on-fire/?utm_date=20250814&utm_id=1755184176&utm_campaign=AAP,ARCH,Blog+Post,Humanities,Journals&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=

Announcing the #publication of my chapter on this past year's developments in #art and #culturalproperty #law in #Israel, in the 2024 edition of Lexology's annual In-Depth: Art Law.

2024 was distressing to write about. Hopefully 2025 will be better.

https://www.lexology.com/account/activatetempaccess/?sl=2aW0FZg8f_OLsHegRgKzsh7l1jU

New on our blog!

A World of Its Own

#CulturalHeritage #CulturalProperty

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/a-world-of-its-own/

New on our blog!

Taking Care of Other People’s History?

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/taking-care-of-other-peoples-history/

#CulturalProperty #Russia #Ukraine

For anyone interested in #museums, #culturalproperty, and #restitution, NYT has a recent piece (June 4) about the Benin Bronzes and what new twists in the road have emerged.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/arts/design/benin-bronzes-nigeria-ownership.html?searchResultPosition=1

B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40K to bring it home

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-first-nation-buys-back-140-year-old-robe-paying-almost-40k-to-bring-it-home-1.6432024

The intricately woven Chilkat robe, made of mountain goat wool & yellow cedar bark, was purchased by the Taku River Tlingit First Nation in northwestern B.C. for almost $40,000 after it went up for sale online by a Toronto-based auction house last year

#CanadaFirstNations #CulturalTheft #looting #Chilkat #Tlingit #LootedArt #CulturalProperty #CulturalRepatriation #repatriation #persagen

#introduction or rather #reintroduction

I'm Matthew! I'm an architect who assists with campaigns for return of the Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) to Greece - but my interest extends to all forms of cultural property disputes & looting of ancient artefacts - plus a fair bit of ancient Greek history too.

I blog at: http://elginism.com/ but not nearly as often as I want to.
#archaeology #artcrime #artlaw #culturalproperty #restitution #ancientgreece #parthenonmarbles #elginmarbles