Colorado Gallery Sells Artifacts Despite Pleas From Mexican Officials
Louisville's Artemis Gallery cited a US law which allows the sale of artifacts with clear provenance for its March 28 auction.
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Louisville's Artemis Gallery cited a US law which allows the sale of artifacts with clear provenance for its March 28 auction.
UK archaeologists discover a Roman villa, the Artemis Gallery has rebuffed demands from the Mexico to stop the sale of historic artifacts, and more.
Mexico's secretary of culture has called out Artemis Gallery in Louisville for selling pieces that belong to Mexico's heritage, but the gallery says it has done nothing illegal.
Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, Mexico’s secretary of culture, demanded in a post on the social media site X on Tuesday that the Artemis Gallery in Louisville “stop the sale of pieces that belong to the cultures of Mexico.”
Mexico’s first lady, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, also sounded the alarm over Thursday’s auction, writing in Spanish in a post on X that the pieces were “illegally stolen from our territory.”