March 30, 2018

Illegal chains which mirror legal ones and function in the penumbra of the legal ones

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While much has been discussed with regards to terrorism financed via the sale of plundered antiquities, substantiating claims with cle...
March 25, 2018

Museum Theft: Museo del Sannio - Benevento, Italy

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Italian authorities have announced a theft from the Museo del Sannio in Benevento, Italy. The theft appears to have occurred around 2:00...
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March 16, 2018

Is art crime understudied? We think so, but you can help us change that.

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Who studies art crime? ARCA's Postgraduate program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection is still accepting application...
March 4, 2018

Art Crime Book Review: Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War

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 Book Title: Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime during War Author: Arthur Tompkins Publisher: Lund Humphries, March 2018 Boo...
March 2, 2018

Repatriations - a 17th century Italianate landscape and a first century CE marble sculpture depicting Aphrodite

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Two months into the new year brings with it two significant repatriations for objects stolen in Italy and illegally transferred for sal...

Museum Theft: Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza - Faenza, Italy

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Vestibule, Maestro of Faenza Sec. XIII Crucifixion and descent into limbo panel painting, 35x28 cm.  + frame 15 cm., N. inv. 98 Image C...
February 23, 2018

Recovered: "Les Choristes" by Edgar Degas

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Image Credit:  INTERPOL Works of Art Database Stolen from the Musée Cantini in Marseille, France, on Thursday, December 31, 2009, a pas...
February 22, 2018

US Supreme Court ruling on the Persepolis fortification texts.

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Image Credit:  the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project University of Chicago Bringing an end to a lawsuit brought two decades a...
February 15, 2018

An appeal that could have a strong legal significance on Holocaust-era claims in the United States

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The protracted multi-million dollar lawsuit regarding the 480-year-old paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Nort...
January 31, 2018

The Manhattan District Attorney's office has removed an ancient wall fresco fragment from the residence of Michael Steinhardt

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Image Credit:  Manhattan District Attorney's Office, New York The Manhattan District Attorney's office has confirmed that they...