March 30, 2024

Stolen Saint: Ukraine Authorities Retrieve the Holy Warrior Bas-Relief of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki from an Online Auction

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After a rare bas-relief appeared in an online auction, with an asking price of 210 thousand Ukrainian Hryvni, historians with the National M...
March 26, 2024

Judgment entered in favor of Plaintiff (Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc). against Defendant (Dirk D. Obbink)

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In early June 2021 Hobby Lobby Inc, owned by craft store mogul, David Green,  filed a Civil Complaint for fraud against former professor Dir...

18 May 2024 - 2024 New Zealand Art Crime Symposium - Art Crime Research Today

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Sponsored by:  The  New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust Date:  Saturday, 18 May 2024 Location:    RHLT3 (Lecture Theatre 3) Rutherford Hous...
March 17, 2024

Girolamini Library Theft - Convictions and acquittals in the network of every bookworm's antichrist

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Last week, after some eleven years and over one hundred and twenty hearings, the Court of Naples, presided over by Maurizio Conte, announced...

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Marks 34th Anniversary of Infamous Art Theft

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Self-Portrait – Rembrandt van Rijn As the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum prepares to mark the 34th anniversary of of one of the most infamo...
March 11, 2024

The wacky illicit world of one Ushabti of the Pharaoh Taharqa

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The Cultural Heritage Brigade of Spain's Policía Nacional have completed an investigation into a rare, illicitly trafficked, ushabti. Th...
March 8, 2024

Museum Theft: One million euros worth of jewellery stolen from a temporary exhibit at the Vittoriale degli Italiani Museum in Italy

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Forty-nine jewellery pieces, created by twentieth century sculptor, painter, and Italian partisan, Umberto Mastroianni have disappeared duri...
March 7, 2024

2024 Amelia Conference - Save the Date and Call for Presenters

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The Amelia Conference:  ARCA’s Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference        Call For Presenters,  Abstract Submission Period :   De...
March 4, 2024

New developments in Spain's theft case of five artworks by Francis Bacon

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  In the summer of 2015 thieves entered a five-story building on the Plaza de la Encarnación —an affluent area in the center of Madrid near ...