April 2, 2015

Honolulu Museum of Art and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents Collaborate: A model for the Repatriation of Looted Art

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By Lynda Albertson In 2014 Homeland Security Special Agent Brenton Easter, part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE,...
March 31, 2015

US Legislature calling for the protection and preservation of international cultural property at risk due to political instability, armed conflict, or natural or other disasters, and for other purposes.

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by Lynda Albertson, ARCA CEO Earlier in March 2015,  Representative Eliot L Engel, [D-NY-16]  introduced a Bill in the 114th Congress,...
March 29, 2015

Indystar Reports Death of Don Miller, 91-year-old man whose private collection of artifacts the FBI seized last year

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Jill Disis reported March 26 for Gannet's Indystar that Indiana resident and electr...
March 28, 2015

French court convicts electrician and his wife for stealing Picasso artworks that the couple claimed were gifts from the elderly artist

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Five years ago a retired electrician and his wife presented unsigned artworks allegedly obtained as...
March 27, 2015

Application Deadline Extended - ARCA's 2015 Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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ARCA's 2015 Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection is extending its application period through...
March 18, 2015

Tunis, Tunisia: Museum attack ends with death of 17 foreign tourists and 2 Tunisians at National Bardo Museum of Carthage artifacts and Roman mosaics

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Image is from the BBC website Update:  CBC News: "Tunisian PM: 17 foreign tourists, 2 Tunisians killed in attack" at the Nati...
March 14, 2015

Prize-winning Boston journalist Steve Kurkjian looks at the investigation of the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in his book "Master Thieves"

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Boston journalist Steve Kurkjian, author of another book on the Isabella Stewart Gardn...
March 8, 2015

Open Letter to New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the Security Council, and New Zealand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

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8 March, 2015  Dear Ambassador Jim McLay and The Honourable Murray McCully, Destruction of Cultural Heritage by ISIS I addres...
February 26, 2015

Pompeii frescos found in garage in Southern California to be returned to Italy

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Editor San Diego, California - The 10News Digital Team for ABC's 10 News reported yesterday "...

A Museum in Mosul That Needs a Break, Not Breaking

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Today we have discouraging information on the fate of the collection of the Mosul Museum.  The museum which opened in 1951 specializes in a...