Hobby Lobby is in some trouble after the U.S. Department of Justice discovered it illegally bought and imported over 5,000 stolen and mislabeled artifacts for the Museum of the Bible.
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Relativism & Relics brings value of objects into question
A husband-and-wife art duo bend time in a new exhibit at The Project Box.
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OKG interview with Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo
Harjo sees it as a matter of semantics to say that the living descendants, such as the modern Egyptians, have no legitimate claim to the treasures of their ancestors.
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Chicken-Fried News: Appropriated antiquities
Hobby Lobby’s Green family is under investigation for importing religious artifacts into the country in a shady manner.
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Chicken-Fried News: A helluva collection
Hobby Lobby President Steve Green plans to open a Bible museum full of expensive artifacts in Washington, D.C. in 2017.
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Battle royale
Photo: Heather Brown Through battleground memorabilia and personal mementos, the summer exhibition at Edmond Historical Society & Museum localizes a Civil War battle’s overwhelming death and destruction. The Legacy of Gettysburg coincides with the historic battle’s 150th anniversary. A museum patron’s private collection supplied approximately 110 pieces from the Battle of Gettysburg, including rifles, swords, […]