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AI, #copyright battles, #heritage protection, and #restitution shaped #artlaw in 2024. What were the year’s most significant shifts? Explore our Year in Review written by Alexander Herman and see what’s next. buff.ly/4093fdH

Happy new year! Here's a new leader article in The Art Newspaper on #restitution in 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 "Ethical and pragmatic solutions are often best in this area. And, hard as it is for a lawyer to admit, the law offers no silver bullet." 🙏 Emmanuel Pierrat Laura Van Broekhoven Gareth Harris

Breaking: Last night thieves entered the Drents Museum in Assen, The Netherlands, with the use of explosives. They got away with precious objects from the ehibition 'Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver'. The display features treasures from the ancient kingdom of Dacia. What a horror

Comment | In #restitution cases, the law is not the only answer. To make progress in returning countries’ heritage taken by previous generations, museums must take a pragmatic, ethical stance. By Alexander Herman theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/27/com…

"In restitution cases, the law is not always the answer... Ethical and pragmatic solutions are often best in this area. And, hard as it is for a lawyer to admit, the law offers no silver bullet." My leader article in The Art Newspaper this month (now available online)

BREAKING: THIEVES CAUGHT! As I predicted from the very first minute in every interview: Dutch police (the best in the world) just caught the thieves who stole Romania’s national treasure from a Dutch museum four days ago... Congrats to Romania!!!

Learn about the Carabinieri Art Squad’s efforts to protect Italy’s #culturalheritage from illicit #trafficking and theft, as explored by Chiara Gallo. Read our full blog post for more: buff.ly/3EQwD0f #ArtProtection #ItalianArt

From the Rodin Museum (Paris): I wonder if anyone told Japanese collector Kojiro Matsuka when he commissioned a set of bronzes by Rodin in 1920 that the sculptor had died three years earlier?

Hard to believe, 5 years ago I spoke on The Art Newspaper podcast about my "forthcoming" book on the #Parthenon Marbles dispute. The book came out in 2023 and much has happened since... OR HAS IT? Listen to that early chat with Ben Luke here: theartnewspaper.com/2020/02/21/who…

Art Institute of Chicago Returns 12th-century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal | The Art Institute of Chicago artic.edu/press/press-re…

The EU law that’s threatening to up-end the antiquities market on.ft.com/3XrKdgW

Fabulous book! Everyone interested in the Parthenon Sculptures or the question of repatriation of antiquities should read it. It’s brilliant! 👍

If you are looking for books to spend #worldbookday2025 today, here are two recommendations from me: 1) The Parthenon Marbles Dispute by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art & Law in London, who provides the most recent, careful, and balanced account of the debate. He wants the

Today Iraqi Museum has received back the Nimrud treasure and Ur treasure with other art masterpieces of Iraqi civilizations that were stored in the central bank since 1990 for safety. The treasure of Nimrud was briefly displayed in 2003 for limited audience after rediscovery.

This was such a lovely endorsement from the esteemed Angela O'Brien of my Parthenon Marbles book. 🙏 And she certainly reads a lot of books! 😮

"How to give back looted objects": thoughtful & provocative piece in Apollo Magazine on how UK #museums & government can respond to #restitution matters ethically by Tristram Hunt. Worthwhile weekend read, & includes a plug on the Charities Act too... apollo-magazine.com/restitution-lo…

Join us in London on 12 June for The Trouble with Travelling Art, a seminar exploring title, contracts and private international law in cross-border art. Hosted by IAL and Maurice Turnor Gardner LLP. Learn more: buff.ly/KPkVBp5 #ArtLaw #CulturalHeritage #IALSeminars

Finland has returned a 17th-century ceremonial stool looted by French colonizers to what is now Benin. The katakle, a three-legged stool, dates back to the Kingdom of Dahomey reut.rs/3GSwBpv