Footnotes

Is this Maya style statue fake?

• Mexico tells a French auction house, that a Maya statue is fake.
• Grim times for arts funding at Universities in America.
• Ancient graffiti prompts the question: do the vandals write history?
• The Arts Council in England has been told to deaccession art by a parliamentary select committee.
• Musty smells and preservation.
• A critical view of the Cultural Property Implementation Act.
• An antiquities collector opens his own museum in France. He started buying them seven years ago after discovering they were far less expensive than might be assumed.
• An account of looting in Latin America.