May 30, 2012

Art Crime Documentary: "Portrait of Wally" (Part Two)

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Rudolf Leopold/The Leopold Museum by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor This is a continued review of the art crime documentary "...
May 28, 2012

Art Crime Documentary: "Portrait of Wally" (Part One)

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Egon Schiele's 1912 "Portrait of Wally"/Leopold Museum by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief A Nazi stole E...
May 24, 2012

Sustainable Preservation Initiative (Part two)

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Larry Coben and Dr. Jaime Castillo with a local dance troupe dressed in Moche costumes celebrating the opening of the new artisan train...
May 22, 2012

Sustainable Preservation Initiative (Part one)

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Incallajta, the ancient Incan site in central Bolivia by Rebekah Junkermeier, Guest contributor Looting, growing crops, grazing...
May 21, 2012

Police and Art Gallery of New South Wales Suspend Search for Stolen Self-Portrait of Frans van Mieris Stolen in 2008

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A Cavalier , a self-portrait by Frans van Mieris Andrew Taylor, arts writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, recently interviewed ARCA&...
May 20, 2012

Theft Anniversary: Two years ago five paintings stolen from Museé d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

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Braque's beautiful Olive Tree Near Estaque  on display in the museum in January 2009/Photo by C. Sezgin Detail from Braque's...
May 19, 2012

BBC News reports Italian police seize 100 artworks from man convicted of altering slot machines in bars and cafes

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Italian police seized 100 artworks, including an original painting by Salvador Dali, as part of an asset forfeiture of more than 330 milli...
May 18, 2012

REVISITING BOOKS: An Earthquake Shatters Expectations in The Caravaggio Conspiracy

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Peter Watson writes in The Caravaggio Conspiracy that in 1980 when he was trying to n...
May 16, 2012

ARCA Founder Noah Charney and ISGM's Security Director Anthony Amore Talk about the largest art theft in US history and the hunt for the paintings 22 years later; NBC's "American Greed" to feature Gardner Museum Heist Tonight

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Vermeer's "The Concert" CNBC's Lindsay Nadrich (with Reuters contributing) writes about the 1990 robbery of the Isab...

REVISITING BOOKS: Watson's "The Caravaggio Conspiracy" and the motive for stealing the Palermo Nativity

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Agrigento Ephebe by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Part two of three In the 1984 book, The Caravaggio Conspiracy...