May 3, 2012

BOOK REVIEW CONTINUED: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor (Continued from yesterday ) In 2008, as economic chaos grips the bond markets and art pric...

Sotheby's Sells Munch's "The Scream" for $119.9 in New York City -- the most expensive artwork sold at auction -- over the objections of the descendants of the Jewish collector Hugo Simon who owned it from 1926 to 1937

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Sotheby's sold Evard Munch's " The Scream " for $119.9 million in New York City tonight. Lot #20, identified from th...
May 2, 2012

BOOK REVIEW: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Interpol and UNESCO listed art theft as the fourth-largest black market in the wor...
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April 27, 2012

Interpol's Stolen Art Database Reports Eight Cézanne Paintings Missing

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Interpol is the international police organization established in 1923.  In 2009, its database for Stolen A...
April 25, 2012

LAPD Art Cop and his example of a fake Certificate of Authenticity

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Don Hrycyk is the only full-time police officer assigned to investigate art...
April 24, 2012

HARP's Public Letter to Senator Leahy to Withdraw S.2212/H. R. 4086 (the "Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act" from any consideration or vote

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April 15, 2012 The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate 224 Dir...
April 20, 2012

Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia Sold in Germany and the United States according to the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection unit in Sassari

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Translation by Francesca Rossi, Our Correspondent in Amelia ARCA blog asked Ms. Rossi to translate the first part of the article "...
April 19, 2012

Last week's ABC News Video of "Stolen Cézanne Recovered by Serbian Police"

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Recovered Cézanne painting Last week ABC News broadcast the video footage of the Serbian police recovering a Cézanne painting hidden in...
April 18, 2012

Dr. Laura Rush Named ARCA's 2012 Writer in Residence

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by Lynda Albertson, ARCA CEO Each year, The Association for Research into Crimes against Art honors distinguished and emerging writers ...
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...