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...League museum. Following an investigation by the Italian government, the Princeton University Art Museum sent three ancient objects back to Italy in October 2006 and adopted a more conservative acquisition policy. Princeton spokeswoman Cass Cliatt says that these policies follow the 1997 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (UNESCO) agreements, which apply to ancient artwork and archaeological objects. However, ethical guidelines for the acquisition and holding of artifacts by museums have been in place for decades, the result of an agreement UNESCO made...
ACQUISITIONS AT HUAM At HUAM, the issue of repatriation claims has been on the mind of Susanne Ebbinghaus, the curator of ancient art. When asked whether any government had made claims to repatriate their antiquities under the UNESCO agreement or otherwise, Ebbinghaus replies, "That is the question I wouldn’t like to talk about...If there was any major claim, you would have heard about...
...them have so-called cultural-property laws that lay claim to any ancient objects found in the ground on their territory after a particular year--the cutoff year varies from one nation to the next--and make it a crime to export such material without a permit. A 1970 UNESCO convention has given those laws force in the courts of other nations, like the U.S., that have accepted it. Cultural-property claims by foreign nations are also enforceable in the U.S. under the ordinary law governing stolen property...
...France is also in the forefront of the struggle for cultural diversity, which was the subject of a UNESCO agreement signed in Paris in 2005 by more than 140 countries from all over the world. That is one way in which we can justify the strong, protective measures we have taken for the past 20 years, such as quotas for air-time for French songs on the radio, or advances against box-office receipts for movie producers. Such measures have enabled us to maintain a good share of our own domestic market...
...College Theatre to brainstorm new ideas to improve their arrangement. After watching a recording of a previous performance, members from the ensemble began throwing out suggestions, frequently conferring through a translator with Qasimov, the foremost singer of traditional Azerbaijani music and a recipient of the UNESCO Music Prize.Ideas ranged from reworking parts of the existing arrangement to entirely novel additions to the ancient work—one musician suggested collaborating with a director to introduce stage motions and acting to the role of the two soloists, for example.By the next rehearsal on Tuesday, products of the first day?...