May 6, 2012

ARCA Grad Julia Brennan helps launch Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles

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Julia Brennan in her Thai Ruan Ton dress outside museum. ARCA Alum '09 Julia Brennan, a textile conservator, was one of the intern...

Curry and Ellis: New website for Stonehill Art Crime Symposium

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Virginia Curry and Richard Ellis at Q&A session  at the Southeastern Technical High School, September 2011 Virginia Curry and Ri...
May 4, 2012

A Petition for the U. S. Senate to Abandon S. 2212 and to vote for the Stolen Artwork Restitution Act

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by Pierre Ciric As a second generation holocaust survivor, I have concluded that S. 2212 , in shielding any government-relate...

BOOK REVIEW CONCLUDED: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor (You may find the first two parts here and here ) In London, Julian Radcliffe, founder of...
May 3, 2012

BOOK REVIEW CONTINUED: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor (Continued from yesterday ) In 2008, as economic chaos grips the bond markets and art pric...

Sotheby's Sells Munch's "The Scream" for $119.9 in New York City -- the most expensive artwork sold at auction -- over the objections of the descendants of the Jewish collector Hugo Simon who owned it from 1926 to 1937

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Sotheby's sold Evard Munch's " The Scream " for $119.9 million in New York City tonight. Lot #20, identified from th...
May 2, 2012

BOOK REVIEW: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Interpol and UNESCO listed art theft as the fourth-largest black market in the wor...
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April 27, 2012

Interpol's Stolen Art Database Reports Eight Cézanne Paintings Missing

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Interpol is the international police organization established in 1923.  In 2009, its database for Stolen A...
April 25, 2012

LAPD Art Cop and his example of a fake Certificate of Authenticity

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Don Hrycyk is the only full-time police officer assigned to investigate art...
April 24, 2012

HARP's Public Letter to Senator Leahy to Withdraw S.2212/H. R. 4086 (the "Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act" from any consideration or vote

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April 15, 2012 The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate 224 Dir...