January 9, 2023

When history repeats itself, and not in a good way. Political insurrection 2.0 causes extensive damage to Brazil's cultural and political patrimony.

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While most in the world can remember the fracturing of politics in the United States on January 6, 2021 following the defeat of then-U.S. Pr...
January 6, 2023

The US United States of America has hands over a rare artefact to Palestine

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  For the first time, the United States of America has handed over a rare artefact that was smuggled from the ruins of the Com in Hebron int...
January 3, 2023

ARCA looks forward on (combatting) art and antiquities crime in the year 2023 and opens its general application period for its PG Cert program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection.

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As the new year gets off to a fresh start, art restitution and trafficking remain hot topics in 2023.  Over the last year, as museums were f...
December 31, 2022

ARCA looks back on art and crime in the year 2022

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Debris covering stairs inside the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre following a March 16, 2022, bombing in Mariupol, Ukraine. Image Cr...
December 17, 2022

Recovered: (Some) of the Jewels Stolen in the November 25, 2019 Green Vault Burglary at Dresden's Residenzschloss.

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On 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dresden Castle in Saxony, Germany and smashed...
November 2, 2022

A lighter than we had hoped [but not unanticipated] sentence for Subhash Kapoor

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  Arrested while on business in Cologne, Germany on October 30, 2011, after a years-long investigation code named Operation Hidden Idol  tha...
October 20, 2022

Reconceiving Restitutions - A look at the work (and one worker) behind the sensational restitutions accomplished by the New York District Attorney's office in Manhattan

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Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdonos and four of the ATU's analysts Trigger Warning:  This is probably going to be the longest a...