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The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Announces the Winners of its Annual Student Writing Competition

The Lawyers' Committee For Cultural Heritage Preservation is a nonprofit organization that fosters engagement with legal issues relating to cultural heritage through initiatives in advocacy...
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‘Chasing Aphrodite’ Co-Authors Felch and Frammolino to Receive 2011 SAFE Beacon Award

New York, NY (October 12, 2011) – SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone, a New York City-based non-profit, will host a dinner honoring the recipients of the...
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Walters Art Museum: Now Available Online

Although it does not have a modern art collection, the Walters Art Museum is a very modern museum. In 2006, it adopted a free admission...
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Patty Gerstenblith Presidential Appointee to Chair CPAC

On June 24, 2011, Office of The Press Secretary issued an announcement that Patty Gerstenblith, Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Center for Art,...
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2011 Legal Issues in Museums Conference

The annual conference on legal problems in museum administration took place on March 22-24, 2011. It was organized by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association...
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Drawing Boundaries in the Art Market, since when?

  Not so long ago, somebody bright and curious could be an art collector, an art dealer and an art curator all at once. Take...
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Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: From the Holocaust to the Haitian Earthquake

The American Society of International Law, the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation, the Art Law Society of Cardozo Law School, and the Hofstra Law...
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SAFEConnect: The Cultural Heritage Network

Saving Antiquities for Everyone  (SAFE) has created an online cultural heritage network, SAFEConnect, "that enables individuals and organizations around the world to work together to...
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Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging a Changing World

On March 7, 2011 at the TimesCenter, Alliance for the Arts presented an Arts Forum on "Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging A Changing World." What is cultural...
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Archaelogical Business Models to Grow Economic Development

According to Miliken Institute Report, Israel needs to explore archaeological business models to increase its economic development. On Feb. 2, 2011, the economic think tank...
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Ask the (virtual) Art Lawyer

The Matisse Foundation has made a $20,000 donation to Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts [VLA], for its new art law website, Ask the Lawyer. The...
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Spotlight: Commission for Art Recovery (NY)

The Commission for Art Recovery is a non-profit organization which seeks justice for Holocaust victims of Nazi art theft. It encourages provenance research for works...
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