Showing posts with label Scotland Yard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scotland Yard. Show all posts
October 6, 2020

Rare Books in an Even Rarer Recovery

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On 29 January 2017 an organized crime group from Romania targeted and robbed over 200 rare books from a warehouse in Feltham, West London.  ...
October 13, 2018

Restitution: Two Etruscan Objects returned to Italy from Great Britain

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Image Credit:  ARCA From Left to Right - Brigadier General Fabrizio Parrulli, Commander of the Italian Carabinieri Command for the Protect...
October 5, 2017

Good News: Scotland Yard Art and Antiques Unit will continue, with new permanent unit head.

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After many impassioned arguments for the reinstatement of London's Art and Antiques squad London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, has con...
August 27, 2017

While London's Art and Antiques is suspended, Mexico creates new federal police division to protect cultural heritage

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Course Opening Ceremony Image Credit: INAH While a lot of the art crime news recently has been about the (hopefully temporary) shutteri...
February 13, 2017

Theft: Antiquarian Booksellers Association's reports dramatic book thief heist of 160 texts, some from the 15th and 16th centuries

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The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard have confirmed a brazen the theft at ...
December 8, 2016

Conference - Second AHRC Workshop | Art, Crime and Criminals: Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder

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Organised by: Professor Duncan Chappell,  Dr. Saskia Hufnagel and Ms. Marissa Marjos. Date: January 16, 2017 Location: Royal Unite...
November 9, 2016

Conference - Second AHRC Workshop | Art, Crime and Criminals: Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder

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Organised by Professor Duncan Chappell,  Dr Saskia Hufnagel and Ms Marissa Marjos. Date: January 16, 2017 Workshop costs: Free, reg...
July 28, 2016

Dali's 1941 Surrealist work "Adolescence" and Lempicka's 1929 tableau "La Musicienne" Recovered: Tied to Organized Crime

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After negotiations that stretched from the UK, to the Netherlands and beyond two paintings stolen by masked gunmen during a daylight robber...
November 28, 2012

Richard "Dick" Ellis on Working with Michel van Rijn

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Richard "Dick" Ellis is an art crime investigator (with The Art Management Group ), the former founder of Scotland Yard's A...
October 18, 2012

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: Conferring with Charley Hill, former Scotland Yard art detective and undercover agent

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By Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Charley Hill, former Scotland Yard art detective (who helped to recover "The Scream&...
May 6, 2012

Curry and Ellis: New website for Stonehill Art Crime Symposium

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Virginia Curry and Richard Ellis at Q&A session  at the Southeastern Technical High School, September 2011 Virginia Curry and Ri...
April 17, 2012

Richard Ellis, founder of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiquities Squad, sets the record straight on recent comments attributed to him on the blog Art Hostage

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief On April 13, 2012,  Art Hostage , a blog on art theft, re-printed an article about the rec...
March 21, 2012

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2012: Noah Charney, Paul Denton, and John Kieberg on Art Theft

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" Protecting Cultural Heritage from Art Theft " is an article by Noah Charney, Paul Denton and John Kleberg recently released in ...
December 15, 2011

Retired FBI Special Agent Virginia Curry to be featured speaker in Los Angeles at the Society of Television Engineer's Holiday Dinner

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Virginia Curry with Richard Ellis earlier this year Retired  FBI Special Agent Virginia Curry will be the featured speaker for the Soc...