July 15, 2013

Rome's Greek bronze statue "Boxer at Rest" visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art through July 15, 2013

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Photo from The Met: Boxer at Rest (Greek bronze) Tomorrow (July 15) is the last day to view the ancient Greek statue, The Boxer , at ...
July 13, 2013

America's Book of Secrets features segment on the Isabella Stewart Gardner 1990 Theft

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Here's the show, America's Book of Secrets on the History Channel, which interviewed ARCA trustee Erik Nemeth (PH.D., Independe...
July 12, 2013

FBI Looking for Owners of Recovered Art (Books and Maps)

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The FBI has posted images of 57 rare books and maps in hopes of finding the owners: After a well-known dealer of rare maps was caught s...
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July 10, 2013

Fire Damage: 17th century Parisian mansion Hôtel Lambert once owned by the Czartoryski and Rothschild families burns for six hours

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Hazardous materials from renovation work complicated fire fighting efforts to save the Hôtel L...
July 9, 2013

Northern Israeli archaeological site unveils granite fragment of Egyptian sphinx -- ancient plunder or gift?

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Archaeologist Shlomit Blecher discovered part of a granite Egyptian sphynx in Israel in August 2012, raising the question of plunder or g...

"Cultural Heritage in the Crosshairs: Protecting Cultural Property during Conflict" provides case studies of Cultural Property Protection and the military

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Dr. Joris D. Kila, University of Amsterdam, and James A. Zeidler, Colorado State University, edited Cultural Heritage in theCrosshairs: Pr...
July 3, 2013

Elmyr de Hory's friend Mark Forgy Begins Campaign on kickstarter.com to launch play "The Forger's Apprentice" at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog Editor Mark Forgy, a friend of the forger Elmyr de Hory, sent out an email today: Dear F...
July 2, 2013

The New York Times' Tom Mashberg Points Out Turkish Claims over Lydian Bed in Storage at The Getty

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Tom Mashberg writing for The New York Times on July 1 reports in "No Quick Answers in Fights Over Art" that quick resolutions ...
July 1, 2013

Ann Shaftel on "The art and craft of preserving art"

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Canadian conservator Ann Shaftel has written on " The art and craft of preserving art ", especially the maintenance of sacred te...

From Inside Neolithic Walls: On Collaboration and Cooperation

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Hong Kong police officer Toby Bull presents at ARCA's International Art Crime Conference in Amelia. (Photo by Illicit Cultural Proper...