[CPProt.net] New IFAR journal

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 Dear MSN and Cpprot subscribers:
 
The new issue of IFAR Journal, published by the International Foundation for
Art Research (www.ifar.org), contains the following feature articles that
may be of interest: 
 
"American Owners Restitute Nazi-Looted drawing to Feldmann Family: IFAR Acts
as Intermediary" 
 
"Authenticity Issues in Photography"   -- Edited Proceedings of an IFAR
Evening, September 2004 -- This includes 7 talks/articles on legal,
scholarly, esthetic, marketplace, and forensic issues. The forensic
discussion -- by the conservator who tested the purported vintage Lewis Hine
photographs that figured in a major lawsuit -- focusses on the dating and
material analysis of photographic paper. 
 
"Art Loss in Iraq -- an Update"  -- Edited Proceedings of an IFAR Evening,
October 2004
* An Overview of the Losses --  by John Russell, Former Sr. Advisor,
Ministry of Culture, Coalition Provisional Authority
* Training Iraqis for Heritage Preservation -- by Bonnie Burnham, President,
World Monuments Fund

In addition, the issue has the following news stories:
* IFAR Receives IMLS Grant for Art Law Website Initiative  (see below)
* Security Upgrades Close Munch Museum Until Summer
* AAMD Publishes guidelines for Museum Acquisition of Antiquities
* Art Dealer Ely Sakhai Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
* President Bush Signs Emergency Legislation Restricting Import of Iraqi
Cultural Property
* Author on Iraq Sentenced for Smuggling Looted Iraqi Artifacts into U.S.
 
Of course, the issue also contains the Stolen Art Alert published by IFAR
since 1977.  
 
IFAR Journal is available by subscription or as a benefit of "membership"/
support of IFAR, a not-for-profit educational and research
organization. Individual issues can also be ordered, see:
 http://www.ifar.org/joun_main.htm. 
 
 
Art Law Website Initiative:   IFAR is also pleased to announce that it has
received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS), a U.S. federal grant-making agency, in partial
support of its Art Law Website Initiative, a project IFAR has been working
on for 5 years. In part, it is an outgrowth of the Resouce Packet IFAR
prepared for the April 2000 "Conference on Provenance and Due Diligence."
 The Website Initiative includes, in searchable form: International Cultural
Property Legislation (ownership and export laws from countries around the
world);  Cultural Property "Contact" Information; and Summaries of Case Law
in IFAR's primary fields of interest, such as: forgery, fraud, theft,
looting, WWII art-related restitution issues and antiquities issues.  For
more about the project, see:
http://www.ifar.org/news_imls.html.
 
Sincerely, Sharon Flescher, Executive Director, IFAR Editor-in-Chief, IFAR
Journal