In the complex, often heartbreaking landscape of cultural heritage law, every now and then a story emerges that’s simply too poignant to ignore. Case in point: an exhibition in New Delhi, featuring Afghan Buddhist and other Eurasian artifacts, organized by an Italian museum. This is not mere cultural exchange; it’s a powerful, circular narrative of protection, destruction, and shared history. The pieces, tracing the long arc of cultural exchange from ancient India to the Mediterranean, […]
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When Van Gogh Meets the Courts: Museums, Money, and the Law
A Museum at Risk of Going Dark The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is, on paper, one of the most successful cultural institutions in Europe. With millions of visitors a year and a self-financing rate that most museums can only dream of (around 85% of its income is generated internally), you would think it is comfortably solvent. But behind the sunflower prints and café lattes lies a problem no gift shop can solve: the building […]
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