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"#Jewish organizations in #Belgium on Monday demanded restitution from a city-run #museum in #Ghent that has acknowledged that it was in possession of a #looted #painting, yet declined to offer compensation for it.

The call by the Jewish Information and Documentation Center and the #European Jewish Association followed reports last week that the Museum of #FineArts Ghent had refused to offer restitution for “Portrait of Bishop Triest” by Gaspar de Crayer.

The museum claims that the family of the late #arts dealer Samuel Hartveld was compensated sometime after #WorldWarII.

However, the family disputes this, and has demanded the museum present documentation of the alleged compensation. Hartveld’s family has threatened legal action against the museum."

Belgium is always up to no fuckin' good these days. The country that hid my step dad and his sister during the war. Shanda.

https://www.jewishexponent.com/belgian-museum-to-keep-art-it-says-was-stolen-from-jews/

Three years after its announcement, @unesco has launched the "Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects", a digital project (funded by Saudi Arabia) presenting #looted objects as 3D models:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/30/unescos-virtual-museum-of-stolen-cultural-objects-goes-live

Vandaag is het thema #looted en daarmee ben ik weer bij. Hier een tekening van een illegale opgraving.

#ArchInk #archeologie #plundering #inktober

Potlood met kleurpotlood. Veld met een kuil waaruit nog net de rand van een pot steekt. Ernaast een berg grond met een schep erin.

Father and daughter’s $200k ATM heist in Hillcrest lands them home detention

The pair were due to be sentenced in the Hamilton District Court last month and, despite questioning, both…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #159000 #200000 #200k #almost #and #atm #been #cash #claim #daughter #daughters #detention #father #for #from #heist #hillcrest #home #in #lands #looted #NewZealand #NZ #police #searching #spent #still #them #which
https://www.newsbeep.com/5723/

UN Warns of Escalating Food Insecurity in Gaza After Convoy Looting

https://mineralmagic89.blogspot.com/2024/11/un-warns-of-escalating-food-insecurity.html

#foodsupplies #GazaStrip #looted #humanitariancrisis #UnitedNations #KhanYounis #Internationallaw #Israel #Humanrights

UN Warns of Escalating Food Insecurity in Gaza After Convoy Looting

https://mineralmagic89.blogspot.com/2024/11/un-warns-of-escalating-food-insecurity.html

#foodsupplies #GazaStrip #looted #humanitariancrisis #UnitedNations #KhanYounis #Internationallaw #Israel #Humanrights

UN Warns of Escalating Food Insecurity in Gaza After Convoy Looting

https://mineralmagic89.blogspot.com/2024/11/un-warns-of-escalating-food-insecurity.html

#foodsupplies #GazaStrip #looted #humanitariancrisis #UnitedNations #KhanYounis #Internationallaw #Israel #Humanrights

@wonkette_bot

Really? What about the Hell's Angels that brought #Trump #speed on the campaign trail before he & #RonnyJackson #looted the White House pharmacy for #Provigil?

Launched in early June, this digital museum tracks repatriated artifacts to better understand the black market of the antiquities trade, which the museum team estimates to be worth $2.5 billion, calculated from values listed in court documents, auction records, and other such sources.

https://www.science.org/content/article/looted-antiquities-are-spotlight-new-digital-museum #museums #looted #antiquities #looted_antiquities

Germany returns looted antiquities to Italy as Berlin’s Altes Museum hands over 25 items believed to have been illegally excavated. In gratitude, Italy is loaning artefacts including painted panels from Lucanian graves and bronze armour.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/13/germany-returns-looted-antiquities-in-berlins-altes-museum-to-italy

@TheArtNewspaper #museums #Germany #Italy #looted #antiquities

"Lack of jurisdiction" doing some heavy lifting in ensuring that Nazi looted art cases don't get heard.

US judge rejects Nazi-loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting owned by Japanese company

What is the legal situation for WWII looted art and forced sales in Japan?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/06/us-judge-rejects-van-gogh-sunflowers-nazi-loot-claim

#looted #art #artlaw #international #law #legal #VanGogh #Holocaust #court #judge #Japan #WWII

2 statues #smuggled out of #Thailand, including a 900 yr old #sculpture that spent 3 decades at the #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt in #NewYork, were welcomed back in official #repatriation ceremony in #Bangkok on Tues.

A 129-centimetre #statue of the Hindu god Shiva, dubbed “Golden Boy”, was #repatriated after being linked to #BritishThai #ArtDealer Douglas Latchford, who was charged with #trafficking, #looted #relics from #Cambodia & #Thailand shortly before he died in 2020.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/thailand-celebrates-return-of-900-year-old-shiva-statue-smuggled-to-us-13773334.html/amp

During the Russian #invasion of #Ukraine, more than 40 museums in the occupied territories were #looted, organized by a theft network of high-ranking Russian state representatives and #military personnel.
Almost 11,000 works of art or 80% of the collection are missing from the #Cherson #Art #Museum
The Russian occupying forces took the #stolen works to the Central Museum of Tavrida, Simferopol, on the Ukrainian peninsula of #Crimea, which is occupied by #Russia since 2014
https://p.dw.com/p/4dxxz

The Boston FBI has recovered 22 historic artefacts—including scrolls, maps and sculptures—looted from Japan during WW2

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/21/fbi-boston-returns-22-artefacts-to-japan

@TheArtNewspaper #looted #Boston #FBI #artefacts #Japanesart

I'm calling this done.

#orks #warhammercommunity #kitbash #looted

An Astra Militarium Basilisk, which has been heavily orkified and painted blue. Front view.

An Astra Militarium Basilisk, which has been heavily orkified and painted blue. Front angled view.

An Astra Militarium Basilisk, which has been heavily orkified and painted blue. Side view.

An Astra Militarium Basilisk, which has been heavily orkified and painted blue. Back view.

Watching the online conference
"Restitution of Nazi-looted Art:
The next 25 Years"
Stuart Eizenstat, Special Advisor on Holocaust Issues to the US Secretary of State, is speaking.
Next speaker, Professor em. James Bindenagel

US-Ambassador for Holocaust Issues (ret) (US-Sonderbotschafter für Holocaust-Fragen a.D.)

Despite progress, there is so much to do.

#justice #NaziGermany #Holocaust #stolenArt #looted #provenance #Washington #law #art #history #bestPractices #museum #ICOM #genocide

I used to love watching the #American version of the #AntiquesRoadshow.

I’m traveling and came across the #British version on one of these tv channels, and they just keep reminding me about #colonialism and #colonization.

So many #people #celebrating #looted items from their #families’ questionable #histories.

The hosts frequently ask what their guests plan to do with their “good #fortunes”, and I just don’t hear anyone saying #GiveItBack

#stolen #history #looting #entitlement #racism

"It has been 11 days since we arrived in the city. Everything looks terrible here, we as #fascists have #destroyed everything, #looted shops, and #people are #afraid of us. On the second day, we listened to the 'Khokhlyatskoye' radio. They called us #occupiers," - the [#Russian] #soldier wrote in his #diary. "It's around 8:00 p.m. I managed to bring my wife two bags and a #blender. I wanted to bring her more, but there is nothing left. We have already #stolen everything,"