Art Matters Lecture Series
Protecting Africa’s Cultural Heritage
Worldwide, the illicit trade in art is on a par with the drugs or arms trades. While Egypt has had laws in place since 1951 to protect its antiquities, making it punishable to export cultural property without a permit, Sub-Saharan African countries are struggling to regulate or prevent the sale of their rich artistic heritage.
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Speaker
Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Curator of African Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art
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