Category: Art and Antiquities

The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association’s Public Statement of Gratitude Upon Successful Recovery of the “Wounded Indian”

By Chuck Sulkala, MCMA President, and Peter Lemonias, Chair, Wounded Indian Task Force The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (“MCMA”) today celebrates its recovery of Peter...

MCMA Celebrates Return of “Wounded Indian” Sculpture 65 Years After Theft

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Greg Werkheiser, Founding Partner, Attorney at Law Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC Legal Counsel to the MCMA (703) 408-2002 greg@culturalheritagepartners.com Assets: Photos...

MCMA Provides Further Insights Regarding Its Claim to Ownership of the “Wounded Indian” Sculpture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2023 Contact: Greg Werkheiser, Founding Partner, Attorney at Law Cultural Heritage Partners, PLLC Legal Counsel to the MCMA (703) 408-2002...

Countries and Museums Grapple with Standards for Returning Art Looted Under Colonial Rule

November 2021 will mark four years since French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the University of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, when he declared one of...

Heirs battle estate over $30m Monet painting from Emden collection sold during Nazi era

Le Palais Ducal (1908), a painting by Claude Monet valued at more than $30m, has been kept off the market according to lawyers for the...

Updated: Will AAMD’s New Guidelines on Deaccessioning and the Use of Restricted Funds Change the Way Museums Handle Their Collections?

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, on April 15, 2020, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) announced changes to longstanding rules governing museums’ use...

CHP Tackles ISIS Threat to Antiquities at Cairo Conference

CHP's Marion Werkheiser participated in a ministerial level conference in Cairo, Egypt, in June aimed at devising practical solutions to halting cultural racketeering– the systematic...

Cultural Property Under Threat: The Cultural, Economic & Security Impact of Antiquities Theft in the Middle East

Marion Werkheiser was honored to attend a ministerial level conference in Cairo, Egypt, last week to discuss practical solutions to halting cultural racketeering-- the systematic...