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Looted art, from antiquity to present-day


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Looted art, from antiquity to present-day
dw.com
2 hrs ago
Annabelle Steffes-Halmer
There s a long history of stealing assets from other cultures. A new publication, edited by historian Benedicte Savoy, illustrates the story of various cases.
© Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D. C./MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin
Cartoonist Udo J. Keppler commented on the ties between capitalism and private collecting at the beginning of the 20th century
Who owns cultural property? At what point does it become looted art? How should museums deal with such artworks in the future?
Museums recently publicly asked these questions in the wake of the debate over the restitution of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria, with Germany now committed to returning the artworks beginning next year. ....

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Free speech wasn't so free 103 years ago, when 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the US


Just over a century ago, the United States government – in the midst of World War I – undertook unprecedented efforts to control and restrict what it saw as “unpatriotic” speech through passage of the Sedition Act of 1918, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16 of that year.
The restrictions – and the courts’ reactions to them – mark an important landmark in testing the limits of the First Amendment, and the beginnings of the current understanding of free speech in the U.S.
As a scholar and lawyer focused on freedom of speech in the U.S., I have studied the federal government’s attempts to restrict speech, including during World War I, and the legal cases that challenged them. These cases helped form the modern idea of the First Amendment right of free speech. But the conflict between patriotism and free expression continues to be an issue a century later. ....

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