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Buyer Beware: The US Black Market For Ancient Indian Art | Tess Davis | Bringing Our Gods Home
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Art
and antiquities have financed some of the last century’s worst
actors—from organized criminals, to drug cartels, mafia syndicates, the
Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, the IRA, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Daesh
(ISIS). Yet public policy still treats the illegal trade in cultural
property as a white collar victimless crime. The United Nations has
taken commendable steps to cut off the global traffic in so-called
"blood antiquities" from Iraq and Syria, but US art collections and
sales remain full of suspect pieces from countries and even ongoing
conflict zones further East, such as Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and
Cambodia.
This lecture will explore a recent government crackdown on the illicit
trade in Asian antiquities and the resulting implication of a top figure
in New York’s art world.
About Speaker: -
Tess Davis, a lawyer and archaeologist by training, is Executive
Director of the Antiquities Coalition. Davis oversees the organization’s
work to fight cultural racketeering worldwide as well as its
award-winning think tank in Washington. She has been a legal consultant
for the Cambodian and US governments and works with both the art world
and law enforcement to keep looted antiquities off the market. She
writes and speaks widely on these issues — having been published in the
New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Foreign Policy, and
various scholarly publications — and featured in documentaries in
America and Europe. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and is an
Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
In 2015, the Royal Government of Cambodia knighted Davis for her work to
recover the country’s plundered treasures, awarding her the rank of
Commander in the Royal Order of the Sahametrei.
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