December 9, 2015

Christie's Withdraws Suspect Lot 45 from December 9th Antiquities Auction

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ARCA has been informed that Christie's has withdrawn  Lot 45: A Celtic bronze dagger and scabbard, 8th C. B.C .   from its December...
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December 7, 2015

New Auction House Identifications With Opaque Collection Histories and Image Matches in Known Trafficker Archives

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Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis has identified three antiquities related to the upcoming December 9, 2015 Christie's antiquities auction in ...
November 20, 2015

17 Artworks Stolen from Italian Museum

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Shortly before its 8 pm closing time, on Thursday November 19, 2015 three darkly-dressed masked thieves entered the Verona Civic Museum of ...

The Curious Cases of Six N.C. Wyeth Paintings: Stolen in 2013 and Recovered in 2015

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Two Newell Convers Wyeth paintings,  “ The Encounter on Freshwater Cliff” and “Go Dutton and That Right Speedily”,  worth an estimated $500...
November 18, 2015

Price and Provenance

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Record prices were achieved at auctions last week with Chinese billionaires leading the way. On the 11th of November, a Hong Kong tycoo...
November 6, 2015

The Good the Bad and the Ugly in Crowdfunding: How Two Museum Projects Measure Up Differently.... Featuring The Tesla Science Center and the Museum of the Bible

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Abdul Halim Attar with daughter, Reem Image Credit: Joshua Abu al-Homsi/Twitter Most people who have spent any time surfing the web in...
November 4, 2015

Recap: Erasing the Past: Da’esh and the Crisis of Antiquities Destruction

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By:  Mairead McAuliffe Wellesley College Class of 2016 Wellesley-ARCA  Global Engagement  Intern 2015 On September 24, 20...
November 1, 2015

The National Parks Vandalism: The Case Against Casey Nocket a.k.a. Creepytings and Others

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One year ago, October 21, 2014 to be precise, Casey Schreiner, founder and editor-in-chief at Modern Hiker, broke the news of a New York hi...
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