Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Art Dealers Fight ISIS


Catherine Chapman, "To Fight ISIS, Art Dealers and Archeologists Join Forces" — Mar 11 2016
The value of cultural heritage has always been a contentious issue within the world of art. Things intensified in 2014, when, as a global society, we began to bear witness to the irreversible amount of cultural cleansing being performed by ISIS in places like Mosul, Raqqa, and now Palmyra. While an unknown amount of antiques and artifacts have either been lost or destroyed, in a once divided scene of archaeologists, museums, collectors and dealers, a coalition of culture is starting to fight back.

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