May 19, 2017

Look into my eyes, but also into my collection history.

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Collecting ancient art can be an extension of a personal passion, a status symbol or a piece of cultural currency but it also serves as a d...
May 17, 2017

Blast from ARCA Program Pasts: ARCA'13 Alum Summer Clowers asks: Is the ARCA program for you? Really now.

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A medieval town & its secret passageways by Summer Clowers, ARCA 2013 WARNING: this essay is a work of satire.   It is best un...
May 15, 2017

Art Held Hostage: Italy's Carabinieri issue its new online bulletin of stolen works of art

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Since 1972 Italy's Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale has published a periodic bulletin that has proven to be a valuabl...
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May 11, 2017

Working canines: Can customs dogs be trained to sniff out smuggled antiquities?

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Image Credit and litter of working canine puppies from parents Zzisa (TSA) X Ffisher at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center Customs dogs ...
April 29, 2017

Auction Alert: Christie's New York and the Guennol Stargazer

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Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism,  Nabi Avcı  Jussi Pylkkänen, global president of the auction house Christie's has indicate...
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April 20, 2017

Repatriation: The Cleveland Museum of Art returns WWII looted bust of Drusus Minor to Italy

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Sometimes the repatriation of a looted object is a long time coming.  Tuesday, April 18, 2017 the Cleveland Museum of Art and Italy'...
April 7, 2017

CCTV footage released of suspects who stole two iconic Māori paintings in Auckland, NZ

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Image Credit: Auckland City Police CCTV footage released by Auckland City Police shows blurry images of two men, wearing bandanas, blac...
April 3, 2017

Art Theft Alert: What the Guardian later called a “garden variety ram-raid”

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What the Guardian later called a “garden variety ram-raid”  happened around 4:00 am on the morning of Saturday, 1 April 2017. In a tree-...
March 26, 2017

Late Application Period Extended for the 2017 ARCA Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

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Who studies art crime? ARCA's Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will continue to accept applicat...
March 25, 2017

United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 2347 to strengthen protections for heritage during armed conflicts

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On March 24,  2017 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2347 to strengthen protections for heritage during ar...