Patty Gerstenblith - The International Market in Ancient Art and Artifacts

Patty Gerstenblith
The International Market in Ancient Art and Artifacts
The Museum
Date: January 29th, 2009
LOCATION: The Baker-Nord Center, Clark Hall, Rm. 309 on the camus of Case Western Reserve University
DESCRIPTION: Prof. Patty Gerstenblith discusses museums, the international art market, and cultural repatriation. Recent news stories about the return of antiquities to Italy, including the return of objects from the Cleveland Museum of Art, have brought the topic of cultural repatriation to public attention. These issues are not only relevant for cultural institutions and those who work for and support them, but also for individual collectors and the attorneys who represent them. In her lecture, Prof. Gerstenblith investigates the issue of repatriation through the lens of the marketplace.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: At DePaul since 1984, Patty Gerstenblith is founding president of the Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation. She is co-chair of the International Arts and Cultural Property Committee of the ABA Section on International Law and was editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cultural Property (1995-2002) and as a member of the United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee (2000-2003) in the U.S. Department of State. She teaches and publishes in the field of cultural heritage and law and the arts. Her most recent article, Controlling the International Market in Antiquities: Reducing the Harm, Preserving the Past, was published in the Chicago Journal of International Law. Her book, Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law, was published in 2004. Prof. Gerstenblith received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. in Art History and Anthropology from Harvard University, and her J.D. from Northwestern University. Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prof. Gerstenblith teaches Art & the Law, Intellectual Property, Property, Seminar in Cultural Property, and Wills & Trusts.

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The people who take these things are the worst kind of criminals.

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Some rich guy should just buy all these and return them to their rightful owners.