May 25, 2018

Countering Antiquities Trafficking (CAT) in the Mashreq

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From April 16 – 20, 2018 I had the pleasure to be one of a specialised group of trainers for  Countering Antiquities Trafficking in the Ma...
May 12, 2018

Museum Theft: Whatcom Museum

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Ninety miles north of Seattle and twenty-one miles south of the Canadian border, Bellingham Police are investigating a theft from the Whatc...
May 6, 2018

Arrest warrant issued for UK suspect in 2017 Aspen Gallery Vandalism

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One year ago, on Tuesday May 02, 2017, a man wearing sunglasses and a cap entered the Opera Gallery in Aspen, Colorado and slashed a £2.16 ...
May 2, 2018

Auction Alert - Sotheby’s New York - a bronze Greek figure of a horse

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On May 01, 2018 ARCA was contacted by Christos Tsirogiannis about a possible ancient object of concern in an upcoming Sotheby's auction...
April 11, 2018

Auction Alert - Christie's Auction House - an Etruscan 'Pontic' black-figured neck-amphora and a Roman bronze boar

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ARCA has been informed by Christos Tsirogiannis that he had identified two potentially tainted antiquities, scheduled to be auctioned by Ch...
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...