January 9, 2014
Destruction of Art in War: Fire and Water -- The revenge tragedy that caused the destruction of the Library at Nineveh
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Clay tablet from the Library of Nineveh, excavated by A.H. Layard. Courtesy of the British Museum by A.M.C. Knutsson, ARCA G...
January 8, 2014
Postcard from Cambridge: Judge Arthur Tompkins revisits Cambridge and its ancient history
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This post is the last in a four-part series of Judge Arthur Tompkin's trip last November to Europe -- museums and retail in Paris, pr...
January 7, 2014
indiegogo campaign to raise funds for Elmyr de Hory documentary includes appearances by 2009 ARCA students
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Elmyr de Hory (indiegogo campaign) Yesterday's email newsletter for the Art Fix Daily ("curated art world news and exclusives...
Postcard from Paris: ARCA Lecturer Judge Arthur Tompkins visits INTERPOL and swabs for DNA analysis
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by Judge Arthur Tompkins INTERPOL is, in popular culture, a near-mythical organisation, one that tends to conjure up an aura o...
Postcard from Paris: Judge Arthur Tompkins writes on 'two extremes of Parisian retail history' and creating art
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Painting of Shakespeare & Company, Paris From the collection of Judge Arthur Tompkins This post is the second of a four-part seri...
January 5, 2014
Postcard from Paris: ARCA Lecturer Judge Arthur Tompkins on artworks on display with history of theft
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Robert-Fluery's 'Last Days of Corinth', Musée d'Orsay This post begins a four-part series written last autumn during ...
January 4, 2014
East African vigangos: Difficulties American Museums Encounter in returning these sacred items (Tom Mashberg for The New York Times)
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From the Denver Museum of Nature & Science via The New York Times : three totem poles (vigangos) Tom Mashberg for The New York Time...
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...
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