July 17, 2014

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Paying for The Heist

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Picasso's 1971 Harlequin by Liza Weber, ARCA '14 Student Lawyers of convicted art thieves of the Kunsthal Rotterdam Heist ...
July 16, 2014

Talking Looted Antiquities and Becchina archive over espresso with Christos Tsirogiannis, ARCA's 2014 Writer-in-Residence, at Amelia's Bar Leonardi

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The patio of Bar Leonardi in Amelia By Catherine Schofield Sezgin,   ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief One of the benefits of holding th...
July 15, 2014

ARCA '14 Art Crime Conference: Tanya Starrett on "What’s wrong with this picture? Standards and issues of connoisseurship"

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Tanya Pia Starrett (left) presenting on panel chaired by ARCA founder Noah Charney (right) Tanya Pia Starrett, a Solicitor from Glasg...

Kunsthal Rotterdam: Romanian court instructs convicted art thieves to repay insurers $26 million for paintings

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Lucian Freud's "Woman with Eyes Closed" (2002) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor The AFP reported in ...

Laguna Beach's Festival of Arts Picks "The Art Detective" as theme for 2014 Pageant of the Masters

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"The Last Supper", The Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach "The Art Detective" is the theme for this year's Pa...
July 13, 2014

Newsweek reports on Art Crime Symposium held in New York in June

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In the Newsweek article, " Outgunned in the Search for Stolen Art ", Kris Hollington reports on the June symposium organized by...
July 12, 2014

Who bought Northampton's Sekhemka at Christie's in London this week? Will researchers or Egyptians ever see this piece of cultural property again in public?

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Sekhemka, front (Christie's) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor BBC News reported July 10 about the controversy surrounding...

Daniel Silva's new fictional book "The Heist" begins with a promise to reveal the fate of Caravaggio's "The Nativity" stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo

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Caravaggio's Nativity (Palermo) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Daniel Silva, author of 14 books feat...
July 11, 2014

Caravaggio to be interned in memorial park on July 18 in Tuscany; however, do the remains found four years ago belong to the artist?

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Caravaggio's Medusa (oil on wood covered with  canvas) at the Uffizi at least since 1631 by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor ...
July 10, 2014

Rev. Dr. Marius Zerafa Spoke on "The Theft and Ransom of Caravaggio’s “St. Jerome Writing”, Co-Cathedral of St. John" at ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference

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Father Marius Zerafa in Amelia before the conference by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Amelia, Umbria -- The Reverend Dr. Mari...