Want the whole story? @damienhuffer.bsky.social's entry for the Museum of Looted Antiquities lays @museumofloot.bsky.social out the Dikmen case, from the Munich seizures to the court-ordered returns: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2... #ArtLawAlmanac

On this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 10, 1997, Munich police raided apartments of dealer Aydın Dikmen in a sting, recovering icons, frescoes and mosaics looted from churches in northern Cyprus after 1974. #ArtLawAlmanac

On this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 8, 2022. Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" (1955) went back on view at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, 37 years after thieves cut it from its frame. A thread on one of the strangest recoveries in US art crime. #ArtLawAlmanac #arttheft #artcrime

On this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 7, 2020. A Dutch advisory committee told the government the Netherlands must be willing to return, unconditionally, cultural objects looted from its former colonies if the source country asks. #ArtLawAlmanac

Also on this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 8, 2020 — two strikes hours apart hit Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shusha (Shushi) during the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Human Rights Watch later found it was likely targeted deliberately, a possible war crime. #ArtLawAlmanac

On this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 6, 2020 — France's National Assembly unanimously backed a bill to return 26 Abomey royal treasures to Benin and El Hadj Omar Tall's sabre to Senegal, a carve-out from the inalienability of French public collections. #ArtLawAlmanac

On this day in the Art Law Almanac: Oct. 2, 1999. "Sensation" opens at the Brooklyn Museum. Mayor Giuliani had called it sick, withheld a $497,554 city payment, and sued to evict the museum from its city-owned building, largely over one painting. #ArtLawAlmanac 🧵1/x