Antiques Roadshow Schedule 2011

I will be with Antiques Roadshow in the following cities this summer. For all cities except Eugene I will be traveling by car and will have ...

Barton Wright Dies at 90 years old

Barton Allen Wright December 21, 1920 - March 2, 2011   Barton Allen Wright, passed away March 2, 2011, age 90, in Phoenix. Born in Bisbee,...

Aztec/Mixtec Turkey

Cholula style Aztec/Mixtec AD 900 - 1521 Central Mexico Ht. 11" W. 10 1/2" Documented Acquisition 1968

Pre-Columbian Photo of the Month - March 2011

Pre-Columbian Jaguar mask head fragment Veracruz East Mexico Ht. 9 1/2" AD 300 - 900 ex Zollman Collection 

The Art and Antique Scene in the U.S. March 2011

1. LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- Street artist Banksy's first film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is up for an Oscar -- and it seems ...

BBC News – Mexico’s struggle to stem looting of historic sites

February 28, 2011 – 09:05 BBC News – Mexico\’s struggle to stem looting of historic sites . "Aztec treasure: Mexico has long wanted to...

Art and Antiques Legal Problems Around the World

1. SALT LAKE CITY (AP).- A Colorado antiquities dealer indicted as part of sweeping federal investigation into the looting of southwestern ...

Around the World - March 2011

1. The Museum Security Network - Cairo Egypt - "On Thursday, the Antiquities Minister Dr. Zahi Hawass released on his popular  blog si...

My Word March 2011

Reflecting on 36 years of collecting, dealing, and appraising art is in some ways exciting and in many other ways somewhat depressing.   Tec...

Virginia Museum Returns Tlingit Frontlet

In 2002 the Logan Museum returned a Tlingit bear headdress collected by Axel Rasmussen in Alaska between 1926 and 1936. The source is the s...

The St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM) Fights for a Mask and May Lose

As we saw in Peter Watson's Medici Conspiracy the buying and selling of antiquities is at the heart of what  often becomes an intriguing...

“Neither condemned nor vindicated” - Marion True - Former Curator Getty Museum

Marion True's alleged complicity in antiquities trafficking in Italy was described in agonizing detail in Peter Watson's The Medici ...