March 23, 2016

Do You Know Where Your Art Has Been? When the Licit Antiquities Trade Masks an Illicit Criminal Enterprise

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Robin Symes, was once one of London's best-known and most successful dealers in antiquities. For 30 years, he and his partner Christo...
March 17, 2016

Was the Verona Museum Theft Commissioned? Possibly

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By Lynda Albertson Surprising news continues to come out regarding the Thursday, November 19, 2015 theft from the Verona Civic Museum of ...
March 16, 2016

12 arrests/13 warrants in the Verona Museum Theft

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Twelve accomplices, have been arrested in connection with the theft of 17 paintings worth an estimated €10m-€15m stolen on Thursday, Novemb...
March 14, 2016

Another War's Cultural Cleansing and Rebuilding: Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage

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By Guest Author, Helen Walasek With the deliberate attacks on historic monuments, archaeological sites and religious structures from mo...
March 11, 2016

Palmyra - An example of when traffic whoring and page view metrics are more important than accuracy

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In the last 72 hours I have spent a frustratingly amount of time playing  Whac-A-Mole   to bad reporting from a number of professional jour...
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March 6, 2016

A Morbid Fascination: Should Human Remains Still be on Display?

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By Aubrey Catrone, 2015 ARCA alumna   “‘Stolen from death.’ The Casts. The Photography.” main exhibit, panoramic view,  Image Cr...
February 29, 2016

How many repatriated (previously looted) Khmer statues can you name?

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Torso of the warrior god Rama On Wednesday February 24, 2016 the Denver Art Museum flew the repatriated tenth-century statue of the war...