Bronze statue to be returned to Türkiye from Cleveland Museum of Art. Are there implications for other material handled by George Zakos? lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/02/clev...

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#RecoveryofHeritage

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Having watched Digging for Britain 1/12, amidst the ancient bling I noticed - it's all about the stories
When I trained as an archaeologist & a museum educator, it remained an ancient object's mysteries, its possible tale, that had power over me & all who saw/touched it
Storytelling makes us human 📜

Sadly at the moment it seems like the only people willing to invest in the arts in this country are individuals who give what they can to the arts as a 'cause' and while orgs like us can work miracles on pennies, culture and creativity shouldn't be propped up on what people can 'spare'

News | Cultural engagement brings health and wellbeing benefits worth £8bn – research uses new methodology to show monetary value of cultural investment

Spain’s culture ministry has begun to fulfil its promise to return more than 5,000 works of art that were taken by the Franco regime after restoring a painting seized by the dictatorship 84 years ago to its rightful owners.

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FT: Restitution, wrangling and renewal in Benin

How the return of priceless looted treasures sparked a creative renaissance

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The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco acquired four sculptures looted from Thailand in the 1960s. Instead of making a quiet repatriation, they're using the process to invite discussion of what a museum is for and how it can be used by communities: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/...

Important new research suggests the Met curator’s personal collection of 20k ancient vase fragments “were deliberately dispersed among dealers and collectors to disguise the mechanism of the illicit market in antiquities and that Bothmer may have played a role in facilitating their movements.”