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Panel debates on Risk Management in the Art and Antiquities Markets
City law firm K&L Gates will host the second in a series of day-long seminars on February 7 addressing risk in the art and antiquities market. The first of three panels across the day will feature Professor Janet Ulph of Leicester Law School, the University of...
Charles Ede Ltd help solve museum’s 160-year-old riddle
Congratulations to ADA member Charles Ede Ltd, who hit the headlines in mid January thanks to their initiative and the expertise of Egyptologist Tom Hardwick. As reported in Antiques Trade Gazette, two fragments of a decorative wooden box made c1400BC, during the...
Now Ancient & Oriental scoop Best Stand Award
The ADA is punching well above its weight when it comes to awards at fairs these days. First Costas Paraskevaides of Art Ancient won Best Stand at the LAPADA Fair in Berkeley Square, London in September for the second year running; now ADA deputy chairman Chris Martin...
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Fake news and ISIS funding – the latest
ADA adviser Ivan Macquisten's article on this subject has finally been published by Homeland Security Today, more than five months after it was commissioned and submitted. This commentary arose from his critique of Homeland Security's Cash to Chaos report, an...
Collecting ancient art, an old tradition under attack
Misinformation, propaganda and a reliance on prejudice rather than a dispassionate assessment of the facts continue to blight the debate over looted antiquities. Those wishing to fight the criminals would do better to work with the legitimate trade, which is keener...
The Antiquities Trade: Time for clear thinking, plain speaking and a constructive approach
Ivan Macquisten, policy and media adviser to the Antiquities Dealers Association (ADA), speaks on behalf of the ADA at Destruction of Monuments and Memory in the Middle East, a seminar organised by the Iran Heritage Foundation, at Asia House in London on December 16,...