January 3, 2014

Resistance fighter and Paris art dealer René Gimpel died on this day in a concentration camp in 1945

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by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief On this date, January 3, in 1945, Paris art dealer René Gimpel (born 1881), brother...

Postcard from Turkey: Archaeological museums in Ankara and Istanbul

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by Aaron Haines Ankara, the capital of Turkey, is slated to host a massive archaeology museum that the Turkish government hopes to com...
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January 1, 2014

Celebrate the new year revisiting the 1996 art heist movie "How to Steal a Million": stolen art, forgery, Paris, and Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn

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ARCAblog subscriber Susan Rosenberg wrote in to recommend the 1966 comedy movie " How to Steal a Million " starring Peter O...
December 31, 2013

Postcard from Turkey: The Archaeological Museum in Boğazkale

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by Aaron Haines After my visit in Uşak, I took a four hour bus ride to Ankara where I spent the night and then left early the next morn...
December 30, 2013

Postcard from Turkey: The Archaeological Museum at Uşak, The Lydian Hoard and Two Hippocampuses

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by Aaron Haines I rubbed my sleep-deprived eyes and stared across the abandoned parking lot at the rusty minivan that was supposedly ...
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Stolen and Recovered Antiquity: The Hippocampus brooch of the Lydian Hoard ("Karun Treasure") recovered in 2012 in Germany

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Constanze Letsche in Istanbul reported for The Guardian in " King Croesus' golden brooch to be returned to Turkey " that Ge...

Was the repatriation of a footless 10th century statue to Cambodia this month related to Sotheby's history of selling Khmer pieces with "no published provenance" or "weak" collecting histories?

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This month's repatriation of a 10th century footless sandstone statue looted from an archaeological site in Cambodia has a backstory g...
December 28, 2013

Fabio Isman reports on scholar Augusto Gentili's identification of sitter of portrait "Young Knight in Landscape" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Carpaccio's 1515 "Young Knight in a  Landscape", Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Investigative journalist Fabio Isman 's a...
December 27, 2013

Link to Radio New Zealand's Interview with Penny Jackson, director of the Tauranga Art Gallery and a NZ art crime expert

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Here's a link to Radio New Zealand's interview last summer with Penny Jackson, director of the Tauranga Art Gallery and a New Ze...
December 26, 2013

"Selling Russia's Treasures" writes about the collecting history of Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Adam and Eve" now at The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCAblog Editor-in-Chief Santa left a tantalizing art book under my Christmas tree, Selling Russia's ...