Showing posts with label louvre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label louvre. Show all posts
January 5, 2014

Postcard from Paris: ARCA Lecturer Judge Arthur Tompkins on artworks on display with history of theft

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Robert-Fluery's 'Last Days of Corinth', Musée d'Orsay This post begins a four-part series written last autumn during ...
April 12, 2013

Louvre's one-day protest to procure help against threat of pickpockets follows strikes in 2009 and 1999 against reduction in staff

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The Louvre reopened on Thursday after a one-day strike by museum security protesting the problem of pickpockets by children entering th...
April 10, 2013

Louvre closed due to "exceptional circumstances"

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Paris' Louvre at night (Photo by CR Sezgin) The Louvre's website pops up a message today: Due to exceptional circumstances, ...
December 27, 2012

ARCA Founder Noah Charney at TEDxCelje Speaks on Art Theft at the Louvre

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Writer and art historian Noah Charney's TED talk given at a TEDx event in November is now online.  The talk is about art theft and th...
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November 19, 2012

The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: "The Sword in the Museum: On Whether La Vallette's Sword and Dagger, Currently Housed in the Louvre, Should be Returned to Malta" by Mario Buhagiar

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In the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Mario Buhagiar writes on "The Sword in the Museum: On Whether La Valette's...
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March 13, 2012

The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Diane Joy Charney reviews Terence M. Russell's "The Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon's Travels with Napoleon's Army" and Denon's erotic novel "No Tomorrow"

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In the Fall 2011 Issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Diane Joy Charney reviews Terence M. Russell's The Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon...
August 21, 2011

"The thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World's Most Famous Painting" by Noah Charney

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One the 100th anniversary of the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Louvre, ARCA and Noah Charney have published a new boo...
March 18, 2011

Paris Diary: Mexico's Plea for UNESCO to Provide International Leadership on the 1970 Convention for Countries to Work Together to Stop the Trafficking of Illicit Cultural Objects and the Destruction of Archaeological Sites... and Revisiting Paris' Most Celebrated Stolen Art, the Mona Lisa

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PARIS - Thursday morning I walked to Les Deux Magots for breakfast before heading to Le Carrousel du Louvre to purchase a 4-day museum pass....
March 14, 2011

"The Louvre: A Golden Prison" produced by Lucy Jarvis and NBC News in the 1960s hints at the plain sight hiding location of a large painting during the Nazi Occupation of Paris

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Lucy Jarvis (Paley Center) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin During my almost sleepless flight to Paris last night, I watched again a charm...
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