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Chasing Aphrodite,Jason Felch,Ralph Frammolino
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"Chasing Aphrodite" Authors Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Win 2012 Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award for Art Crime Scholarship
ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art)
is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards for the year 2012. ARCA
is an international research group that promotes the study of art crime
cultural heritage protection, registered as a 501c3 in the United States and an
Associazione Culturale in Italy.
ARCA presents
four annual awards. Nominations
are made by ARCA staff, trustees, and members of the editorial board of ARCA’s
peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of
Art Crime. The winners are
decided by a vote of the trustees, and are presented at ARCA’s annual
conference, held in Amelia, Italy on June 23 and 24 of this year. For more
information about ARCA or to attend its annual conference, please contact Lynda
Albertson: lynda.albertson (at) artcrimeresearch.org.
Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award
for Art Crime Scholarship
Past winners: Norman Palmer (2009), Larry Rothfield
(2010), Neil Brodie (2011)
Shortlisted
nominees: Fabio Isman, Sandy Nairne
2012 joint
winners: Jason Felch and Ralph
Frammolino
Mr. Felch and
Mr. Frammolino are award-winning investigative journalists with the Los Angeles Times newspaper, and
co-authors of a book based on their columns, entitled Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s
Richest Museum (2011).
Jason
Felch is an award winning investigative reporter with the Los Angeles Times. In
2006 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for
exposing the role of the J. Paul Getty Museum and other American museums in the
black market for looted antiquities. His work has also been honored by the
National Journalism Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the NationalAssociation of Science Writers and others. Prior to joining the LA Times in
2004, Jason was a fellow at the Center for Investigative Reporting and a
freelance writer on topics such as money laundering, arms trafficking and
drilling for natural gas in the Peruvian rainforest.
Ralph
Frammolino is a veteran journalist who worked at American newspapers for 30
years. He spent 25 of those at the Los
Angeles Times, where he covered a variety of beats but mostly concentrated
in investigative projects for the Metro staff. His work has been honored by the
Associated Press of Texas, Dartmouth University Business School and the Los
Angeles Press Club. He was part of the staff effort that won a Pulitzer Prize
in 1994 for the coverage of the Northridge Earthquake, and was a co-finalist
for a Pulitzer in 2006 for his coverage of the J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities
scandal. Since leaving the LA Times
in 2008, Mr. Frammolino has been working in South Asia as a teacher, journalism
trainer and media development consultant with USAID, the World Bank and other
foreign aid donors. He continues to freelance and his stories have appeared in The New York Times, New York Post, LA Times,
Columbia Journalism Review and, most recently, Smithsonian Magazine.
Felch
and Frammolino are jointly awarded for their outstanding research and scholarship
that informed both their investigative articles for the Los Angeles Times and their book, Chasing Aphrodite.
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