CPRI Lectures for Museum and Educational Institutions
CPRI provides speakers on topics related to museums, law, and cultural property policy to museums, academic meetings, schools and other educational institutions serving the public across the U.S. Upcoming! CPRI's Arthur Houghton and Kate Fitz Gibbon join a panel of distinguished experts for an important public program.
The Future of the Past – Collecting Ancient Art in the 21st Century SPONSORS: The Asia Society and The American Committee for Cultural Policy, Inc. a non-profit charitable organization VENUE: The Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021-5088 DATE: Sunday, March 18th, 2012 Doors open 10:00am -- Program 10:30 am – 12:00pm Free to the public Asia Week is a thriving annual celebration of Asian art in New York. We owe its existence to the forethought and devotion of past generations. Will events such as these be possible in the next decade, given the current inadequate policies restraining the global diffusion of art? Will future generations have the privilege of direct access to the vast cultural resources that we have today? A distinguished panel of museum professionals, collectors, and other major art experts will address these urgent questions in order to understand what needs to be done today to safeguard the accessibility of Asia’s cultural heritage tomorrow. Exploring the common ground between art collecting and cultural diplomacy, the panel will try to explain how current policies, in both the United States and internationally, will affect private and public collections in the future. More specifically, the panel will examine: — How new museum policies leave hundreds of thousands of orphaned works of art with an uncertain future — The consequences of U.S. import restrictions on Chinese art — The difficulties museums face in organizing exhibitions — How policies are affected when art source countries, such as India and China, develop an indigenous collectors’ market. Panelists: Naman Ahuja, Professor of Indian Art and Architecture, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India Kate Fitz Gibbon, CPRI Board, Attorney and author, former member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to the President Kurt A. Gitter, Co-founder Gitter-Yelen Art Study Center, New Orleans Arthur Houghton, CPRI President, Former diplomat, curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to the President James Lally, International art dealer, J. J. Lally & Co. Oriental Art James McAndrew, Forensic Specialist at Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz,, Silverman, Klestadt LLP, former Homeland Security, U.S. Customs expert Julian Raby, Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C. Marc Wilson, Sinologist and former director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art With Dr. Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society and Vice President, Global Art Programs and Dr. Vishakha Desai, President, Asia Society Information: 212-288-6400 · theaccp@gmail.com
Investigative
journalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino from the Los Angeles Times reveal the inner workings of the J. Paul
Getty Museum’s quest to acquire the largest collection of Roman and Greek
antiques in the United States. Carefully, Jason and Ralph peel away the layers
of the sometimes ethically challenged world of antiquities following rare
objects from centuries past as they pass from the dark of night looters to the
sophisticated dealers in Paris or Switzerland to the lofty society collectors
or museum curators. In particular, they reveal the illicit journey of the
statue who was thought to be Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite. Gary Vikan, director
at the Walters Art Museum and Arthur Houghton, President of the Cultural Policy
Research Institute, a former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum and a major
source for the book join to frame the "larger questions involving the
effect of evolving cultural property law and guidelines on museum policies and
deepening concern about the future of ancient objects in private hands. Good journalism,
greed and ethics are key themes in Chasing Aphrodite culminating with the
indictment and prosecution by a foreign country of a curator of the Getty
and the demand by that country (Italy) for the return of an extraordinary
volume of material from a broad array of US museums and private collections. NPC Contact: Keri Douglas, keridouglas@mac.com 202-276-1702
"Cultural Heritage and African Art: Negotiating the Rise of Ethical and Legal Collecting Concerns." 9:30–10 am: Coffee and registration Speakers include specialists on issues of art and cultural patrimony: Kate Fitz Gibbon, J.D., Santa Fe, New Mexico Derek Fincham, J.D., Ph.D., Houston George Okello Abungu, Ph.D., Nairobi, Kenya Sylvester Okwunodo Ogbechie, Ph.D, UC Santa Barbara John Henry Merryman, Dept. of Art, Stanford University This program is made possible by the endowed Ruth K. Franklin Lecture and Symposium Fund.
Western Museums
Association 2010-2011 presentations by CPRI members included Art, Collecting, and the Law with Bonnie Magness-Gardner, FBI Art Crime Program, a lecture on Collecting Native American Art Legally at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Questions of Provenance: A Mini-Symposium at the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, California. Lecture topics range from general background to current, newsworthy issues in cultural heritage. Depending upon the requirements of the audience, topics may include ancient, ethnographic, international, or Native American cultural and legal policy. CPRI can provide presentations about American collecting of ancient and ethnographic art, the essential role of museums in arts education, preservation and public access, laws governing the art trade, inheritance and donation of artworks and museum guidelines for acquisitions. CPRI charges a nominal fee plus travel expenses for out-of-state lecture services. Lectures within New Mexico are free of charge. In all its fee-based services, CPRI will reduce its fees in consideration of the ability of the museum or cultural institution to pay. For information: Kate Fitz Gibbon, Cultural Policy Research Institute, Inc. 215 West San Francisco Street, Suite 202C, Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-412-2209 cprinst@gmail.org The Cultural Policy Research Institute (CPRI) is a 501(C)(3) public charity dedicated to advancing public understanding of the issues that underlie the ownership and disposition of cultural property. The Institute conducts research and disseminates information on cultural policy issues through its website, www.cprinst.org, and through outreach to the museum community. CPRI is headquartered in Santa Fe, N.M. |
