March 1, 2023

2023 ARCA Amelia Conference - Save the Date & Call for Presenters

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The Amelia Conference:  ARCA’s Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference       Call For Presenters,  Abstract Submission Period :   Dea...
February 23, 2023

77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen and a well known Brooklyn dealer

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On February 21, 2023 the United States restituted 77 looted artefacts to the Republic of Yemen via its Embassy in Washington DC.  This marks...
February 21, 2023

Penelope Jackson The Art of Copying Art

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Author: Penelope Jackson Title:    The Art of Copying Art  Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2022 Penelope Jackson has don...
February 13, 2023

Burglars strike the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden

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According to the Dutch Politie, in today's early morning hours, around 3:45 am an alarm sounded which alerted them that, a burglar or bu...
February 10, 2023

A 2,500-year-old sculpture from the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar is returned to the Peruvian ambassador

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The site of Chavín de Huantar What we know about the monumental ruins of Chavín de Huantar , thousands of feet up in the Cordillera Blanca ,...
February 3, 2023

The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled not to drop the antiquities trafficking indictment against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier

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In the French courts today, the investigative chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal ruled on the request to cancel the indictments against Je...
February 1, 2023

Ukraine very own, "Arsène Lupin" is sentenced to five years in French prison

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In 2018 a painting Le Port de La Rochelle by French Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac was stolen from the Musée de Beaux-Arts in the ci...
January 22, 2023

"Con il traffico di opere d'arte ci manteniamo la famiglia." Words from Cosa Nostra Boss Matteo Messina Denaro?

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« Con il traffico di opere d'arte ci manteniamo la famiglia .» " With the trafficking of works of art we support our family." ...

Four confessions to a museum burglary all started with a photo of the Green Diamond

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This month, has proved an interesting month in the ongoing trial of six burglars, believed to be responsible for the theft of 18th-century j...
January 21, 2023

Twitter user @ArtFreak, (George S) sentenced in the theft of a Picasso, a Mondrian, and a Guglielmo Caccia

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The thief that burgled Greece’s National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens eleven years ago has been sentenced.   Citing that the ...