Showing posts with label Van Gogh Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Van Gogh Museum. Show all posts
October 16, 2024

Cocaine, Van Goghs and a narco kingpin's Imperial life in Dubai

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For several years ARCA has followed the escapades of Raffaele Imperiale, one of Italy's most important (and violent) drug dealers, who ...
May 3, 2022

Justice rendered in the attempted theft of Claude Monet's De Voorzaan en de Westerhem from the Zaans Museum

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Forty-nine year old, repeat art napper, Henk Bieslijn has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for the broad daylight f...
September 22, 2021

How many bags of cocaine could a Monet buy?

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Back this summer shots were fired by one of two suspects fleeing the scene of an attempted theft of Claude Monet's painting De Voorzaan...
August 19, 2021

No longer a teflon don, Raffaele Imperiale has been arrested in Dubai and is awaiting extradition

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In October 2019 the US Drug Enforcement Administration sent documents to the Dutch police documenting a 2017 meeting between drug trafficker...
March 30, 2020

Van Gogh thefts by our count: 37 Van Gogh works of art have been stolen, 3 of them two times each, over the course of 15 separate art thefts.

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When opportunity has knocked, art thieves have often had a preference for works of art attributed to Vincent Van Gogh.   But just how ma...
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February 2, 2020

Dick Drent returns to Amelia to teach "risk management and crime prevention in museum security” at ARCA's 2020 Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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By Edgar Tijhuis This year, the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will be held from May 28 through A...
February 6, 2017

Press conference: The Van Gogh of the Camorra on display at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples

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Museo di Capodimonte Via Miano, 2,  80137 Naples, Italy Live Periscope link to event Image Credit: sAG In a standing room onl...
January 31, 2017

If paintings could talk...recovered Van Gogh paintings to go on exhibition in Naples February 6-26 before returning to the Van Gogh Museum

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Dear Italian art lovers,  Despite our lengthy stay in Campania and the hospitality of one of the Camorra's largest suppliers of ...
January 20, 2017

Camorra bosses convicted, Van Gogh's can go home to Amsterdam.......shortly.

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This week Italian Judge Claudia Picciotti handed down more than one hundred years of prison time in the sentencing of eight members of t...
November 4, 2016

Anatomy of a Confession - How much are two stolen Van Gogh's worth to an alleged Naples drug kingpin?

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In recent developments on the Van Gogh recovery in Italy case, the newspaper La Repubblica  has announced that Italian prosecutors have bee...