Thursday, April 5, 2012

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SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

List of stolen items from Museum released

List of stolen items from Museum released

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Family Affair Under The Radar

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Family Affair Under The Radar

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Bill Reid Whale Still Headache Art 16 Years On & More

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Bill Reid Whale Still Headache Art 16 Years On & More

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Dublin Saint O'Toole's Heart Ripped Out As Greek Police Hunt Museum Hauls

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Dublin Saint O'Toole's Heart Ripped Out As Greek Police Hunt Museum Hauls

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Lord Nelson Ring Theft, Security Review Re-active Instead Of Pro-active

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Lord Nelson Ring Theft, Security Review Re-active Instead Of Pro-active

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, U-Haul, U-Sleepover, U-Lose Antique Heirlooms

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, U-Haul, U-Sleepover, U-Lose Antique Heirlooms

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Pink Panthers Godfather Arrested As Serbia About To Become EU Member

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Pink Panthers Godfather Arrested As Serbia About To Become EU Member

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Rome Art Cops Strike, Rubens Recovered

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Rome Art Cops Strike, Rubens Recovered

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Is Coming, As "Headache Art" Goa See's Indian "Knocker Boys "Arrested In Mumbai

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Is Coming, As "Headache Art" Goa See's Indian "Knocker Boys "Arrested In Mumbai

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Return O'Toole's Heart For Forgiveness, Absolution & Cash Reward

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Return O'Toole's Heart For Forgiveness, Absolution & Cash Reward

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Released Today As Police Recover Stolen Haul & John Drewe Gets Eight Years

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Released Today As Police Recover Stolen Haul & John Drewe Gets Eight Years

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Dick Ellis Sow's Seed Of Doubt, Goes Forth & Multiplies

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Dick Ellis Sow's Seed Of Doubt, Goes Forth & Multiplies

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Shakespeare Folio Thief Raymond Scott, The Taming Of The Shrew

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Shakespeare Folio Thief Raymond Scott, The Taming Of The Shrew

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Diamond Solitaire, Gone In A Flash

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Diamond Solitaire, Gone In A Flash

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Anne Bass Home Invasion, Butler On Trial

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Anne Bass Home Invasion, Butler On Trial

Art Hostage: Sannd Of Time Move On As NZ Art Thief Released From Jail

Art Hostage: Sannd Of Time Move On As NZ Art Thief Released From Jail

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lags Lowry Jail-time

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lags Lowry Jail-time

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lowry Handlers Jailed, Dey Doo Doe Don't Dey

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lowry Handlers Jailed, Dey Doo Doe Don't Dey

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Nicholas Hoare Recommends Hot Art

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Nicholas Hoare Recommends Hot Art

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Cambridge Silver Thief Jailed, Will Serve Nine Months

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Cambridge Silver Thief Jailed, Will Serve Nine Months

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Shannon Goose Loose In The Country Hoose

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Shannon Goose Loose In The Country Hoose

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Released Today As Police Recover Stolen Haul & John Drewe Gets Eight Years

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Hot Art Released Today As Police Recover Stolen Haul & John Drewe Gets Eight Years

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Csontvary Elopes Leaving $1 million Headache

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Csontvary Elopes Leaving $1 million Headache

Illicit Cultural Property: Art and Antiquities Crime Up 30% in Greece

Illicit Cultural Property: Art and Antiquities Crime Up 30% in Greece: "We have now come back, hiring just security personnel to man museums and archaeological sites. Well, doesn't that prove our genuine convi...

Illicit Cultural Property: Research

Illicit Cultural Property: Research: Below I have included the links to my scholarly research. These pieces are all accepted or published works, which I've made free to downlo...

Illicit Cultural Property: Antiquities Stolen From Montreal Museum of Fine Ar...

Illicit Cultural Property: Antiquities Stolen From Montreal Museum of Fine Ar...: An Assyrian bas-relief stolen in October Two antiquites have been stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts last October. The theft ...

Illicit Cultural Property: More on the Dutch Recovery

Illicit Cultural Property: More on the Dutch Recovery: Is stolen the same as sold?  David Charter for the Times has more details on the recovery of eight works stolen 22 years ago.  He reports t...

Illicit Cultural Property: Germany's Master Art Forger

Illicit Cultural Property: Germany's Master Art Forger: A forgery of a work by Molzahn German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi was sentenced to six years in prison for counterfeiting 14 painting...

Illicit Cultural Property: Connecting Art and Drug Crime

Illicit Cultural Property: Connecting Art and Drug Crime: LS Lowry's The Viaduct , stolen in 2007 We can make at least one more connection between the drug trade and art theft. A number of sto...

Illicit Cultural Property: Landis and Forgery at the University of Cincinatti...

Illicit Cultural Property: Landis and Forgery at the University of Cincinatti...: A forged work by Mark Landis This is not your typical April 1 prank. Curators at the University of Cincinnati have put together a super ...

ARCAblog: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations Provided Distractio...

ARCAblog: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations Provided Distractio...: Rembrandt's The Storm on the  Sea of Galilee is his only seascape. by Catherine Sezgin, ARCABlog Editor The Boston Globe highlig...

ARCAblog: Greece, ARCA and the Art Market

ARCAblog: Greece, ARCA and the Art Market: Vanja Stojanovic, a terrific student at the University of Guelph put together this short interview after the ARTHattack! conference where I ...

ARCAblog: Art Fraudster John Drewe Jailed for 8 Years Follow...

ARCAblog: Art Fraudster John Drewe Jailed for 8 Years Follow...: Christine Cunningham reported for the Evening News on March 12 that John Drewe, 64, convicted in 1999 of art fraud, was jailed for eight ...

ARCAblog: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2012: Noah Cha...

ARCAblog: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2012: Noah Cha...: " Protecting Cultural Heritage from Art Theft " is an article by Noah Charney, Paul Denton and John Kleberg recently released in the March ...

ARCAblog: "Hot Art" Book Launched at The Flag Art Foundation...

ARCAblog: "Hot Art" Book Launched at The Flag Art Foundation...: by Marc Balcells, ARCA 2011 Graduate NEW YORK CITY -- A new book bringing attention to the topic of art crime is a motive for a cele...

ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these paintings as stole...

ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these paintings as stole...: The Carabinieri TPC listed the images of the paintings recovered earlier this month from a home in Rome's Parioli district because these ar...

ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabinieri TPC ...

ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabinieri TPC ...: Guido Reni's Judith and Holofernes by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog editor Earlier this month, the Carabinieri's del Reparto Operativo...

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...: by Dr. Saskia Hufnagel The ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Austra...

ARCAblog: American Institute for Roman Culture held its annu...

ARCAblog: American Institute for Roman Culture held its annu...: Centro Studi Americani, Roma by Leila Amindeddoleh, ARCA Alum 2010 The American Institute for Roman Culture held ...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...: Lucas Cranach the Elder's diptych "Adam" and "Eve"   at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California March 27 Maria Dinzeo reported ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...: Warhol Heinz 57 box (FBI) A press release from the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced " Former Car...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...: Warhol Heinz 57 box (FBI) A press release from the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced " Former Car...

ARCAblog: Senate Bill 2212: Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisd...

ARCAblog: Senate Bill 2212: Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisd...: by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA blog Editor-in-Chief The proposed Senate Bill S. 2212, the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional, is the bi...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...: In the Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Lilian and Dieter Noack of the Daumier Register announced that they had pinned down ...

ARCAblog: Palmyra and other Syrian Cultural Heritage at Risk...

ARCAblog: Palmyra and other Syrian Cultural Heritage at Risk...: by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Since early March, archaeologists, government officials and Syrian expatriates have b...

ARCAblog: Spain reports recovery of two first-century Roman ...

ARCAblog: Spain reports recovery of two first-century Roman ...: The Roman bronzes recovered in Spain were about 5 feet tall. (Photo via The Archaeology News Network ) Courtesy of  Museum Security ...

ARCAblog: ARCA Awarded Stuttgart Detective Ernst Schöeller 2...

ARCAblog: ARCA Awarded Stuttgart Detective Ernst Schöeller 2...: Painting in the style of Max Ernst ARCA's Board of Trustees has awarded Ernst Schöeller this year's Art Policing and Recovery award i...

ARCAblog: Syrian Arab News Agency Reports Claims by Director...

ARCAblog: Syrian Arab News Agency Reports Claims by Director...: "The oasis where the Temple of Bel stands"/ Istanbul Archaeological Museum On Sunday, April 1, SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency, rep...

A Painter's Resources: Etsy Birds Bopping and Bees Buzzing

A Painter's Resources: Etsy Birds Bopping and Bees Buzzing: It's Springtime at Etsy!  So many talented artists and artisans now being featured everywhere ! Yesterday the latest West Elm arrived, E...

Monday, April 2, 2012

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Photography Websites and Artist Web Sites, FolioLink Template Websites to show, sell and promote photography and art online

Photography Websites and Artist Web Sites, FolioLink Template Websites to show, sell and promote photography and art online

Illicit Cultural Property: Fake and Stolen Dalis Seized

Illicit Cultural Property: Fake and Stolen Dalis Seized: From the BBC : Spanish police say they have confiscated dozens of suspected fake artworks by Salvador Dali that were to be sold in the to...

Illicit Cultural Property: 30 Works Stolen from Berlin

Illicit Cultural Property: 30 Works Stolen from Berlin: Art thieves don't party.  30 Works were stolen from a Berlin gallery sometime close to New Year's Eve the AP reported earlier this week: ...

Illicit Cultural Property: Landis and Forgery at the University of Cincinatti...

Illicit Cultural Property: Landis and Forgery at the University of Cincinatti...: A forged work by Mark Landis This is not your typical April 1 prank. Curators at the University of Cincinnati have put together a super ...

ARCAblog: Profile: ARCA Trustee Erik Nemeth and New Lecturer...

ARCAblog: Profile: ARCA Trustee Erik Nemeth and New Lecturer...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief ARCA Trustee Erik Nemeth will be lecturing in Amelia this summer for the Master’s...

ARCAblog: ARCA Announces Nominees for 2012 Awards to be Pres...

ARCAblog: ARCA Announces Nominees for 2012 Awards to be Pres...: For the past three years, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) has recognized the professional contributions of four ...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Aviva Briefel...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Aviva Briefel...: Aviva Briefel, an Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin University, has published “Imperfect Doubles: The Forger and the Copyist” in the...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Hasan Niyazi ...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Hasan Niyazi ...: In the current issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Fall 2011, Hasan Niyazi writes on "The Art of Seeing - A Leonardo Case Study": ABSTRACT: ...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Leila Aminedd...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Leila Aminedd...: The Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime features an article by ARCA Alum (2010) Leila Amineddoleh on "The Pillaging of The Spanish ...

ARCAblog: FBI Agent (Retired) Virginia Curry and former Scot...

ARCAblog: FBI Agent (Retired) Virginia Curry and former Scot...: Virginia Curry and Dick Ellis holding a painting  by David Teniers, Peasant Filling His Pipe,  stolen from the Richard Green Gallery in ...

ARCAblog: Former LAPD Art Crime Investigator Lazarus Found G...

ARCAblog: Former LAPD Art Crime Investigator Lazarus Found G...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog editor LOS ANGELES - A murder committed before DNA samples were used in court to convict ends i...

ARCAblog: Art Fraudster John Drewe Jailed for 8 Years Follow...

ARCAblog: Art Fraudster John Drewe Jailed for 8 Years Follow...: Christine Cunningham reported for the Evening News on March 12 that John Drewe, 64, convicted in 1999 of art fraud, was jailed for eight ...

ARCAblog: CNBC's "American Greed" on "Fine Art: Portrait of ...

ARCAblog: CNBC's "American Greed" on "Fine Art: Portrait of ...: By Angela Kumar, ARCA Class of 2011 CNBC’s American Greed aired Fine Art: Portrait of Fraud  at 10 p.m. on Wednesday night.   This e...

ARCAblog: Greece, ARCA and the Art Market

ARCAblog: Greece, ARCA and the Art Market: Vanja Stojanovic, a terrific student at the University of Guelph put together this short interview after the ARTHattack! conference where I ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...: Warhol Heinz 57 box (FBI) A press release from the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced " Former Car...

Sunday, April 1, 2012

plundered art: Overview of the first year of activity on the “plu...

plundered art: Overview of the first year of activity on the “plu...: In order to know who you, the readers of “plundered art”, are, Google provides a potent tool—Google Analytics—which provides a glimpse of t...

Illicit Cultural Property: Profile of Claude Cassirer

Illicit Cultural Property: Profile of Claude Cassirer: In September of last year the 9th Circuit held that Claude Cassirer can pursue a case against the Kingdom of Spain over this work, Rue St.-...

Illicit Cultural Property: A Pisarro Hidden for 70 Years to be Auctioned

Illicit Cultural Property: A Pisarro Hidden for 70 Years to be Auctioned: Camille Pissarro's Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps (pictured), previously discussed here , recently recovered from a Zurich bank vault will go ...

Did Art Handlers Damage a $21 Million Miro?

Did Art Handlers Damage a $21 Million Miro?

Illicit Cultural Property: Antiquities Stolen From Montreal Museum of Fine Ar...

Illicit Cultural Property: Antiquities Stolen From Montreal Museum of Fine Ar...: An Assyrian bas-relief stolen in October Two antiquites have been stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts last October. The theft ...

Illicit Cultural Property: Germany's Master Art Forger

Illicit Cultural Property: Germany's Master Art Forger: A forgery of a work by Molzahn German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi was sentenced to six years in prison for counterfeiting 14 painting...

Illicit Cultural Property: Many Thanks to ARTHattack!

Illicit Cultural Property: Many Thanks to ARTHattack!: I want to give a big thank-you to the folks at the University of Guelph and Dr. Susan Douglas. Last Friday I was fortunate to have been aske...

Illicit Cultural Property: ARTHattack! Interview

Illicit Cultural Property: ARTHattack! Interview: Vanja Stojanovic, a terrific student at the University of Guelph put together this short interview after the ARTHattack! conference where I ...

Illicit Cultural Property: Connecting Art and Drug Crime

Illicit Cultural Property: Connecting Art and Drug Crime: LS Lowry's The Viaduct , stolen in 2007 We can make at least one more connection between the drug trade and art theft. A number of sto...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...: In the Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Lilian and Dieter Noack of the Daumier Register announced that they had pinned down ...