Category: Art Law Articles

Monthly Articles Italy Gets 337 Stolen Artifacts Back From the U.S. At a ceremony in Rome in late April, U.S. officials formally returned 337 looted antiquities, archival materials, and artworks to Italy. The objects range from the Villanovan era (900 to 700 B.C.E.) through the Hellenistic period and include sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, goldwork, and a…

Monthly Articles Congress Just Made It a Lot Harder for Museums to Hold Onto Nazi-Looted Art Congress unanimously passed an expanded version of the HEAR Act (Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act), and it’s now waiting on Trump’s signature. The original 2016 law gave heirs of Holocaust victims six years to file claims after finding stolen…