Thursday, April 5, 2012

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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...

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 ...

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 ...