#MuseumDirectors
Nearly 65% of art museum directors say they’ve experienced pressure not to show an artwork or present an exhibition at least once in their careers, according to a new survey by Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), PEN America and the Association of Art MuseumDirectors: hyperallergic.com/983345/most-...
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January 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New loophole? @museumdirectors allow gifts and bequests of unprovenanced antiquities promised prior to 2008 policy, req's they be posted.
December 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Headed to #SF to share what people love about arts. @MuseumDirectors http://margyartgrrl.bo.lt/VibrancyBlogSSIReview
December 2, 2024 at 11:12 AM
So, time to update these @MuseumDirectors Object Registry listings, @artinstitutechi?

https://aamd.org/object-registry/new-acquisitions-of-archaeological-material-and-works-of-ancient-art/3764
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January 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ok, so it’s now on the @MuseumDirectors Registry, with the claim that “research has traced the object’s history back to the mid-1960s, when it is said to have been in the collection of Kenneth John Hewett (1914-1994).” Did a little birdie tell you?!?...
January 23, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Hi, @metmuseum - how is "said to be" from a private collection a good enough provenance for this 2021 donation, seemingly undocumented before 2004? You're not even going to put it on the @MuseumDirectors Object Registry? (h/t @Boro_RR)
January 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Promising sign: museum directors and archaeologists talking about looting. RT @MaxAndersonUSA @MuseumDirectors http://tinyurl.com/7yg3c7z
Panel Discussion: "Shifting Challenges in the Protec...
On October 27, 2011, Maxwell L. Anderson, the Melvin &amp...
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December 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
In 2004, new @GettyMuseum director Timothy Potts pushed a policy that allowed for purchase of suspect antiquities. @museumdirectors
December 1, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Amen! RT @MuseumDirectors Authenticity is honesty and transparency. Without it great art is not possible. -Bill Baker #aamd2012»
December 1, 2024 at 5:37 PM
[MT] @MuseumDirectors contemplate [provenance] of colossal bull head from ancient Iran @OIMuseum #AAMD2012 http://t.co/TiEcXds0
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December 1, 2024 at 5:32 PM
But American museums routinely flaunt that ethical guideline. Here are several hundred examples via @MuseumDirectors: http://aamdobjectregistry.org/A-Browse
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December 1, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Museums "provide no written justification whatsoever for disregarding the 1970 rule," says @CultureGrrl Response from @MuseumDirectors ?
December 1, 2024 at 1:04 PM
.@MuseumDirectors tell @CultureGrrl saying "we have every confidence" members follow antiquities guidelines. http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2013/01/aamd_has_every_confidence_in_m.html
AAMD Has “Every Confidence” in Members’ Appropriate Use o...
In my Sunday post on recent cultural-property news and co...
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December 1, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Lee Rosenbaum notes that @museumdirectors will review use of the Object Database to publish suspect antiquities at... http://fb.me/wXXXfdZx
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December 1, 2024 at 12:49 PM
The @MuseumDirectors Object Registry has become a tool for laundering suspect antiquities. Did they fix it? http://chasingaphrodite.com/2013/01/29/decoding-eakin-behind-extortion-claim-fear-the-floodgates-have-opened/ #aamdKC
Decoding Eakin: Behind ‘Extortion’ Claim, Fear the Floodg...
It is no coincidence that The Great Giveback, Hugh Eakin’...
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December 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Breaking: @MuseumDirectors tighten guidelines on collecting antiquities, crack down abuse of the Object Registry.
December 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Bravo. MT @MaxAndersonUSA: Art Museum Directors @MuseumDirectors
Strengthened Guidelines on Antiquities http://fb.me/2bpVmdWXs
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December 1, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Strengthened Loopholes? Lee Rosenbaum had good analysis of the @museumdirectors new antiquities guidelines http://fb.me/2jwLkpUQT
AAMD’s “Strengthened” Antiquities-Collecting Guidelines B...
My enthusiastic response to the Association of Art Museum...
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December 1, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Art Newspaper: Are @museumdirectors guidelines opening new loopholes for looted antiquities? http://fb.me/2B21UXZDl
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December 1, 2024 at 11:31 AM
This month's Art Newspaper has tet a tet commentaries on new @museumdirectors antiquities policy from Arthur Houghton and Richard Leventhal.
December 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Leventhal: "When museums acquire antiquities of dubious provenance, they undermine
their status as moral institutions." @museumdirectors
December 1, 2024 at 11:00 AM
CultureGrrl: Can Tim Rub @museumdirectors move museums beyond ownership of antiquities and toward stewardship?... http://fb.me/1bQQJztux
Ownership vs. Stewardship: Timothy Rub on the “New Order ...
Serving as director of the Philadelphia Museum since 2009...
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December 1, 2024 at 9:33 AM