Posted on: July 7, 2023 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
The July 2023 issue of Art Antiquity and Law has now been published and hard copies will be winging their way to subscribers this week. Online subscribers will be able to access it in the usual way. This issue contains a thought-provoking article by law professors Peter Cumper and Tom Lewis on the vexed issue […]
Posted on: June 26, 2023 by Tom Lewis
On 12 June 2023 two environmental protesters were convicted by a Vatican court of aggravated damage to the Laocoön statue, one of the most precious treasures of the Vatican Museums’ collection, believed to have been carved in Rhodes around 40-30 BCE. The protestors, Guido Viero and Ester Goffi, are members of the group Last Generation […]
Posted on: January 22, 2021 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
The December issue of Art Antiquity and Law has now gone to press and will be available in a few days. We hope the slight delay can be forgiven because this is our 100th issue of the journal, which is surely worthy of celebration (even during these rather un-celebratory times). If you subscribe to the […]
Posted on: January 18, 2021 by Rebecca Hawkes-Reynolds
Yesterday, Sunday, 17 January 2021, the Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick announced his plans to introduce new legal protections for historic statues and plaques which will be presented to Parliament imminently. The aim of these new measures is for any change to such monuments to go through a system of approval, whether through listed building consent […]