February 28, 2022

Will an international rogatory finally bring Italy's treasures home from the Altes Museum?

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Apulian vases Antikensammlung Berlin - Accession no. 1984.39-59 Anyone who admires the moveable heritage of Magna Graecia and Apulian red-fi...
December 7, 2021

Remembering the 30th Anniversary of the shelling of Dubrovnik

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 SENSE Center for Transitional Justice marks one of the most notorious episodes of the intentional destruction of historic monuments of the ...
October 28, 2021

After 130 years, what (limited) cultural property is finally going home to Benin

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Sometimes when a country fights for their cultural property it is not about the monetary value, but about its cultural significance.  Below ...
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October 14, 2021

Caveat Venditor takeaways during the guilty pleas of New York ancient art dealers

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New York-based ancient art dealer Mehrdad Sadigh, AKA Michael Sadigh, who had operated Sadigh Gallery out of the Jewelry Building (Buchman a...
September 27, 2021

Three convictions and one acquittal, the number of museum thefts Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been charged with.

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Nils Menara, AKA Nils M., has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by the Lelystad court in the Netherlands for the theft of two artworks: Vi...
September 22, 2021

How many bags of cocaine could a Monet buy?

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Back this summer shots were fired by one of two suspects fleeing the scene of an attempted theft of Claude Monet's painting De Voorzaan...
September 3, 2021

Norwegian police seize artefacts from the Martin Schøyen collection

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Weekly Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet has reported that members of the Norwegian Economic Crimes Unit, working in coordination with the Øk...

Six members of the Remmo family are formally indicted in Dresden for connection to the 2019 Grünes Gewölbe burglary

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Yesterday an indictment was filed at the state court in Dresden, Germany formally charging six individuals, aged 22-27 with serious gang the...
September 1, 2021

New York Exhibition Review - Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art

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by Aubrey Catrone, Proper Provenance, LLC The Jewish Museum’s current exhibition Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art is ...
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August 27, 2021

The lifestyles of Cocainenomics: Dubai Police release video footage of Raffaele Imperiale and announce the arrest of another fugitive Raffaele Mauriello

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The General Department of Criminal Investigation of the Dubai Police has released a somewhat dramatic video that shows the capture and arre...