July 14, 2022

In Memoriam - Dick Drent (1959-2022)

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It is with deep regret that we learned of the passing of our former museum security and risk management professor and dearest friend Dick Dr...
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May 25, 2022

Justice Rendered: The final confiscation of properties and business enterprises of Gianfranco Becchina has been confirmed.

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DIA Seizing Gianfranco Becchina assets in 2017 Italy's Direzione Investigativa Antimafia,  the country's Anti-Mafia Investigation De...
May 3, 2022

Justice rendered in the attempted theft of Claude Monet's De Voorzaan en de Westerhem from the Zaans Museum

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Forty-nine year old, repeat art napper, Henk Bieslijn has been sentenced to four years in prison in the Netherlands for the broad daylight f...
April 22, 2022

Save the Date/Call for Presenters: August 5-7, 2022 ARCA's 11th Annual Art Crime Conference

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Conference Date:     August 5-7, 2022 Abstract Submittal Deadline:     June 15, 2022 Location:   Amelia, Italy Celebrating a decade of acade...
April 11, 2022

Potential CITES violations and a seizure of specimens from one (of many) large hunted animals collections in Spain.

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Image Credit:  Guardia Civil, Spain It wasn't until an October 9,  2019 El Pais journalist Manual Ansede wrote an article about the hunt...
April 8, 2022

What about the well known looted vases in the Altes Museum in Berlin?

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Left: Medici Archive Polaroid with fragments of the Crater of Persephone, attributed to the Painter of the Underworld, Right: 4th century BC...
April 4, 2022

The sometimes slow and sometimes fast return of historical artefacts pillaged from Libya

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Cyrene, Northern Necropolis. The Sculptured Tomb/Cassels from Pacho 1827 Parallel with the start of the First Libyan Civil War, the Security...