March 10, 2011

"Musée Rodin's Communique Respecting Rodin's Moral Right: A Warning to Collectors about the Notion of Authenticity"

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, Editor Rodin's "The Thinker" (Norton Simon Museum) Today I was distracted from provenance r...
March 9, 2011

Rodin's Naked Balzac Bronze Stolen Three Months Ago in Jerusalem During Museum Renovation, Reports Haaretz.com; NPR Adds Quote from the Art Loss Register's Chris Marinello

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Rodin Statue of Balzac (Photo Courtesy of Harretz.com) Although the Israel Museum discovered the theft of Auguste Rodin's "Naked...

The New $44.9 Million Turner Painting of Rome Displayed Today at the Getty Center in Los Angeles

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin On my way to the Getty Research Institute this afternoon, I stopped to view the newly displayed J. M. W. Tur...
March 7, 2011

ARCA's Founder Noah Charney & Friend of ARCA, Vernon Rapley, formerly with Scotland Yard, Will Lecture about Art Crime and Stolen Art in London this April

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During the first week of April in London, Noah Charney will be giving a pair of talks along with his friend and colleague, Vernon Rapley, th...

ARCA 2011 Annual Conference Call for Presenters, July 9-10

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Conference Announcement
March 6, 2011

Egyptian Conservator Dr. Hany Hanna Requests Cooperation and Vigilance in Recovery Looted Antiquities

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Sphinx You may read about Dr. Zahi Hawass' reasons for resigning as Minister of State for Antiquity Affairs on his website here . A...

Tulane Law School Symposium: "Defending Aphrodite: Enforcing International Cultural Property Law" in Siena in June

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Cathedral of Siena (Courtesy of Tulane Law School) The Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage and the Arts, ...
March 5, 2011

"The 1970 Convention: Past and Future" Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, March 15 and 16, 2011

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UNESCO/S. Delepierre Catherine Schofield Sezgin, Editor I have been invited to attend UNESCO's 40th commemoration on March 15 of th...
March 4, 2011

The Art Loss Register's Chris Marinello Discusses Egypt's Antiquity Crisis and Steps Taken to Recover Missing Objects

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Statue of Ramsesses II in Aswan (Courtesy of Dr. Hawass) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, Editor Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's face of anti...

Videos of Marc Masurovsky of the Cultural Plunder Database Speaking in Florida on the unfinished work of returning Nazi-looted art to the rightful owners some 65 years after the war

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Marc Masurovsky Last year I had the privilege to volunteer on the U. S. Holocaust Museum's Cultural Plunder Database of Nazi-looted a...