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May 18, 2026

From Nagapattinam to Leiden and Back: The Chola Plates and the Dutch Colonial Collections Committee’s Restitution Advice

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Image Credit from Leids Dagblad For more than 160 years, two extraordinary copper-plate charters from South India sat within the collections...
May 11, 2026

The Power of Disclosure: One Family Reckons with Its Wartime Past as Goudstikker's Portrait of a Young Girl by Dutch artist Toon Kelder is Relinquished

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Dutch crime journalist John van den Heuvel, long known in the Netherlands for his reporting on organised crime and high-profile criminal inv...

Inherited Silence: Another Nazi Looted Painting "Portrait of a Young Girl,” by Dutch artist Toon Kelder Found in Private Hands.

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Identified Goudstikker portrait and a photo of a volunteer of the Dutch SS taking an oath in the presence of an officer. In the background, ...
May 1, 2026

Chinese Porcelain Theft at Princessehof: A Suspect Arrested After Three Years

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More than three years after a dramatic break-in at the Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Dutch authorities have brought a suspect before the cour...
April 29, 2026

From Temple to Market and Back: Provenance Lessons from the 2026 India Restitutions

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Late yesterday, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office issued a press release announcing that as a result of their investigations, the Ant...
April 2, 2026

From Explosion to Recovery: Authorities Set Press Conference on Recovered Dacian Gold Stolen from the Drents Museum

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   After fourteen months, Drents Museum and the Public Prosecution Service (OM)  held a press conference  this afternoon at 2:00 pm  to form...
March 31, 2026

The Long Game: Why Organised Crime Holds, Not Sells, What It Steals

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When the news of the €11 million museum theft at the Fondazione Magnani Rocca in Traversetolo broke last Sunday, the incident was already s...
March 24, 2026

When “Financial Advice” Isn’t About Finance: Art Market Ambiguity and the Epstein–Black Relationship

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Knowing that ARCA has been exploring the thousands of documents in the Epstein files, provenance researcher Saida Hasanagic pointed us to a ...
March 12, 2026

Never underestimate the power of reading new books to determine the outcomes of antiquities trafficking mysteries

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To bring attention to looting and plunder, the US nonprofit The Antiquities Coalition released a  PDF "Top Ten Most Wanted" serie...
March 10, 2026

Meet Our Alumni: ARCA PG Cert Spotlight Series: Saida Hasanagic, art historian and provenance researcher

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Welcome to ARCA’s PG Cert Alumni Spotlight Series, a collection of in-depth Q&A interviews conducted by Edgar Tijhuis*, highlighting the...
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