Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
December 14, 2020

Voluntary Restitution of Indian Annapurna, the Hindu Goddess of food and nourishment, by University of Regina in Canada.

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Image Credit:  Dona Hall, courtesy of MacKenzie Art Gallery Figure of Annapoorna (Benares, India, 18th century), artist unknown, stone, 17.3...
January 20, 2019

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Stolen 80 years ago , a section of an Achaemenid-era (550-330 BC) bas-relief, once part of a long line of rock-carved soldiers displaye...
July 25, 2018

New York Supreme Court judge orders plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis must be returned to Iran

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A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered the plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis, which dates from the 5th Century B.C.E.,...
October 14, 2016

Conviction and Sentence - New Brunswick Museum Theft

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Last month, Bruce Lee Marion pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property, valued at more than $5,000 for his role in the theft of four ...
October 9, 2016

A Persian soldier from Persepolis loses his second home

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In February 2014 ARCA wrote about a sandstone bas-relief panel then-titled, "Head of a Guard" stolen in September 2011 from the ...
March 25, 2014

The Toronto Star: ARCA graduate Mark Collins quoted in article on "Crimes of the art"

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Last summer, ARCA awarded Mark Collins, a senior officer at the Ontario Provincial Police, the Minerva Law Enforcement Scholarship to atte...
February 14, 2014

Simon Metke and His Ongoing Relationship with "Protecting" Cultural Heritage

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Journalists Cailynn Klingbeil and Jana G. Pruden from the Edmonton Journal have published an article where they have interviewed the 33 ...
February 13, 2014

AXA Art Insurance, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Announce the recovery of a rare and valuable Achaemenid Bas-Relief Stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2011

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Sandstone, Head of a Guard photo by @DomenicFazioli At a press conference today in Montreal, the Sûreté du Québec - ...
December 5, 2013

"The Crime That Pays? The Canadian Print Media's Construction of Art Fraud, 1978-2012" authored by Josh and Adie Nelson in the Fall 2013 issue of The Journal of Art Crime

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Josh and Adie Nelson authored "The Crime That Pays? The Canadian Print Media’s Construction of Art Fraud, 1978-2012" in the Fall...
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November 10, 2012

Eleven year old boy finds and returns stolen painting to artist in British Columbia

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Mathew Claxton of the Langley Advance in British Columbia broke the story of an 11-year-old boy who recovered a stolen painting from a n...
October 29, 2012

Bill Reid Theft 2008: Postmedia News obtains RCMP and university campus security records to answer outstanding questions about the heist of UBC's Museum of Anthropology and the investigation that followed

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Haida artist Bill Reid's art safely back on display  at UBC's Museum of Anthropology (Photo Sezgin) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA...
October 26, 2012

Theft Anniversary: Two artifacts (Assyrian and Roman) stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art last year

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Last year on October 26, someone stole two ancient sculptures from the Montreal Museum of Fine A...
September 5, 2012

40th anniversary of Canada's biggest art theft quietly passes

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This painting by Rembrandt was stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts  in 1972 and remains missing.  by Catherine Schofield Se...