December 19, 2020

Unsolved string of incidents at multiple museums, vandalising more than 100 objects, in Germany

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Last October the museum world was shocked by mysterious vandalism of sixty objects in four hours at three prominent German museums on Berlin...
December 14, 2020

Voluntary Restitution of Indian Annapurna, the Hindu Goddess of food and nourishment, by University of Regina in Canada.

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Image Credit:  Dona Hall, courtesy of MacKenzie Art Gallery Figure of Annapoorna (Benares, India, 18th century), artist unknown, stone, 17.3...
December 11, 2020

Restitution: Cybele, the Anatolia goddess of Phrygia, finally goes home

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Image Credit: Turkish Consulate General in New York After a four and a half year stalemate in an international custody battle between a coll...

The life of a trafficked slave as seen through the eyes of his trafficked funerary portrait.

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Earlier this week ARCA talked about two suspect funerary portraits tied to the ancient city of Ostia identified in the J. Paul Getty Museum ...
December 8, 2020

Italian Senator Margherita Corrado commenting on two suspect Roman altars at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art

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Last week Italian Senator Margherita Corrado (5-star Movement) signed a motion to create an organization to recover works of art that have l...
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November 19, 2020

Unpacking what has been made public in the investigation into the recently restituted Egyptian stela in the name of the Head of the Elders of the Portal of Hathor-Lady-of-Mefket, Pa-di-séna

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Image Credit:  Facebook user "Art of Ancient" This week a  2600-year-old looted stela in the name of the Head of the Elders of the...

"Provenance Research Today" book release to debut at the International Catalogue Raisonné Association conference

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On December 3rd a new book called Provenance Research Today: Principles, Practice, Problems is being released by Lund Humphries, an indepen...
November 17, 2020

Three suspects in the burglary theft at the Green Vault have been arrested in Berlin.

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Image Credit: Saxony Police One year ago, on 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dre...
November 13, 2020

Exhibiting Absence: Introducing Samsung’s Missing Masterpieces

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Bringing the wider public's attention to works of art that have been stolen or lost has been a long-standing goal of the Association for...