July 6, 2017

Civil Complaint requires forfeiture of thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, but is that enough?

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Cuneiform Tablet - Image Credit U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York By: Lynda Albertson On July 5, 2017, ...

ARCA's 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Art Crime has been a great success

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By: Edgar Tijhuis ICOM Red Lists Highlighted at the 2017 Amelia Conference Last weekend ARCA held its yearly conference in the beauti...
May 19, 2017

Look into my eyes, but also into my collection history.

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Collecting ancient art can be an extension of a personal passion, a status symbol or a piece of cultural currency but it also serves as a d...
May 17, 2017

Blast from ARCA Program Pasts: ARCA'13 Alum Summer Clowers asks: Is the ARCA program for you? Really now.

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A medieval town & its secret passageways by Summer Clowers, ARCA 2013 WARNING: this essay is a work of satire.   It is best un...
May 15, 2017

Art Held Hostage: Italy's Carabinieri issue its new online bulletin of stolen works of art

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Since 1972 Italy's Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale has published a periodic bulletin that has proven to be a valuabl...
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May 11, 2017

Working canines: Can customs dogs be trained to sniff out smuggled antiquities?

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Image Credit and litter of working canine puppies from parents Zzisa (TSA) X Ffisher at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center Customs dogs ...
April 29, 2017

Auction Alert: Christie's New York and the Guennol Stargazer

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Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism,  Nabi Avcı  Jussi Pylkkänen, global president of the auction house Christie's has indicate...
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April 20, 2017

Repatriation: The Cleveland Museum of Art returns WWII looted bust of Drusus Minor to Italy

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Sometimes the repatriation of a looted object is a long time coming.  Tuesday, April 18, 2017 the Cleveland Museum of Art and Italy...
April 7, 2017

CCTV footage released of suspects who stole two iconic Māori paintings in Auckland, NZ

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Image Credit: Auckland City Police CCTV footage released by Auckland City Police shows blurry images of two men, wearing bandanas, blac...
April 3, 2017

Art Theft Alert: What the Guardian later called a “garden variety ram-raid”

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What the Guardian later called a “garden variety ram-raid”  happened around 4:00 am on the morning of Saturday, 1 April 2017. In a tree-...