November 9, 2012

UCLA & UC Irvine: Two-day program in Southern California showcases international research on Afghanistan's archaeology and history

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Oxford Classics lecturer Llewelyn Morgan, and author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan , spoke yesterday afternoon in Los Angeles at the first of ...
November 8, 2012

Palais Fesch Art Theft Update: Security guard and bartender sentenced to four and two years, respectively

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Palais Fesch in Adjaccio, Corsica On October 26, 2012, two men received prison sentences of two and for years for stealing four painti...
November 7, 2012

Lawyer's Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation Conference Opens Tomorrow: "From Plunder to Preservation: The Untold Story of Cultural Heritage, World War II, and the Pacific"

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief The Lawyer’s Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation is opening its annual confer...

Lynn Nicholas spoke as keynote speaker at DePaul's conference "Restitution and Repatriation: The Return of Cultural Objects"

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Image of Nefertiti by Sarah Wilson, Second Year Law Student at DePaul University Lynn Nicholas , the noted author of The Rape of E...
November 5, 2012

MoMA Director Glenn Lowry's Responds to Hurricane Sandy; NYC museum works with American Institute for Conservation Collections Emergency Response Team

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Yesterday Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, sent an email letter to the art institution's "...
November 2, 2012

The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: Columnist Noah Charney on "Counterfeit Money" in Lessons from the History of Art Crime

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In the Fall 2012 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , columnist Noah Charney writes on "Counterfeit Money" in Lessons from the ...
October 31, 2012

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Journalist Colin Gleadell on "overvaluation" of the seven stolen paintings

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog So much has been written about the October 16 theft of seven paintings from the Triton Foundation on di...
October 29, 2012

Bill Reid Theft 2008: Postmedia News obtains RCMP and university campus security records to answer outstanding questions about the heist of UBC's Museum of Anthropology and the investigation that followed

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Haida artist Bill Reid's art safely back on display  at UBC's Museum of Anthropology (Photo Sezgin) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA...
October 26, 2012

Theft Anniversary: Two artifacts (Assyrian and Roman) stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Art last year

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Last year on October 26, someone stole two ancient sculptures from the Montreal Museum of Fine A...
October 25, 2012

ARCA Lecturer Dorit Straus' on how a stolen violin inspired "Orchestra of Exiles"

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Bronislaw Huberman with Albert Einstein  who was instrumental in raising funds to  start the orchestra./Orchestra of the Exiles by C...