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06 July 2011 3:19 PM | No CommentsThe Institute of Museum Ethics provides free, confidential guidance on ethical matters. Please contact Yerkovsa@shu.edu.
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After Long Resistance, France Returns Mummified Maori Heads to New Zealand
On Monday, after two decades of resistance, France returned to New Zealand the mummified heads of 20 Maori warriors that have been held in French museums for more than two centuries.
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A New Museum Position: Curator of Provenance
Geoff Edgers had a terrific piece over the weekend profiling Victoria Reed, curator of provenance at the MFA Boston. Her position was created in 2010, and is unique in the museum community.
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Next legal step uncertain for O’Keeffe art at Fisk
Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition.
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Hungarian national gallery director resigns in protest
Backlash in Budapest to proposed merger with Museum of Fine Arts
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Museum Wades Into Politics With a Fund-Raiser
Just as the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum is seeking to expand onto state property in Midtown Manhattan, some of its trustees have been pressing the rest of the board to contribute to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s re-election campaign by buying tickets to his birthday party on Tuesday night.
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Possible Forging of Modern Art Is Investigated
Posted on December 6, 2011 | No CommentsFederal authorities are investigating whether a parade of paintings and drawings, sold for years by some of New York’s most elite art dealers as the work of Modernist masters like Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock, actually consists of expert forgeries, according to people who have been interviewed or briefed by the investigators. -
Another Vereshchagin Deaccession, From Brooklyn: Where Will The Money Go?
Posted on December 1, 2011 | No CommentsNearly two months ago, the Brooklyn Museum's press office sent me links to two blog posts about its Russian paintings, saying I might be interested. I was, but not until now, as you will see shortly. -
“Antiquities and Archaeology” in the Art Newspaper
Posted on November 29, 2011 | No CommentsThree fine articles in the November issue of the Art Newspaper examine where museums and nations go from here after the events of the last ten years.
![The third round of the Delphi Forecasting Exercise, a joint project of the Center for the Future of Museums and the Institute of Museum Ethics, is beginning this week and you are welcome to join in.
In Rounds One and Two, we identified six issues to focus upon and in this round, we hope to learn [...]](http://museumethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Guy-214x160.jpg "Museum Ethics: Forecasting, Round Three!")
![Welcome to the newly updated website for the Institute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University. The site has been redesigned to provide a more robust resource for those seeking information about ethical issues for museums. Among the many changes you will find
A new, regularly updated news feed to which you can subscribe separately;
Lists of [...]](http://museumethics.org/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Welcome!")
![[ April 9, 2011; ] The Institute of Museum Ethics in partnership with the Institute for Ethical Leadership of Rutgers Business School held a conference on Museums, Ethics, and the Press in Newark, New Jersey on April 9, 2011. The conference explored the recent controversy surrounding the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," examining the [...]](http://museumethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hide-seek-panel-214x160.jpg "‘”Hide/Seek”: Museums, Ethics, and the Press,’ Spring 2011 Conference")
