August 31, 2017

UK Art dealer arrested in Los Palacios, Spain for stealing antiques and on an order of extradition to Italy

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Objects seized.  Image Credit: Guardia Civil / DGGC Identified during a routine inspection of guest lists for lodgings in Los Palacios ...
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Updates on Turkey’s lawsuit over the multimillion-dollar, 5,000-year-old antiquity known as the Guennol Stargazer.

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On August 28, 2017 attorneys for Michael Steinhardt and Christie's filed a lengthy, contentious  Motion to Dismiss  in the US Distri...
August 27, 2017

While London's Art and Antiques is suspended, Mexico creates new federal police division to protect cultural heritage

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Course Opening Ceremony Image Credit: INAH While a lot of the art crime news recently has been about the (hopefully temporary) shutteri...

Conference - Authenticity, forgery, provenance, and ethics at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting

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The 2017 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting , will be held in Boston on November 18–21, 2017 and will feature an interesting ...
August 26, 2017

Yes Virginia, there really are honest dealers in the world.

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University of Arizona Museum of Art Curator Olivia Miller authenticating Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017....
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August 24, 2017

Theft: The Universitetet i Bergen posts photos of stolen objects to Flickr

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The  Universitetet i Bergen has begun uploading images to Flickr of the approximately 400 objects stolen from the University Museum of Berg...
August 23, 2017

Hedge Hogs and the Art of Wealth: The Curious Background of Michael Steinhardt

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Michael Steinhardt has a long standing record of making astute financial decisions, many of which have led to stellar investment perform...
August 14, 2017

Artefacts seized at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad

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Destined for Japan, customs authorities at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad have intercepted six antiquities believed t...
August 3, 2017

Opensource Reprint: Nekyia “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”

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Given the recent interest in the July 31, 2017 article in the New York Times regarding the Python bell-krater depicting Dionysos with Thyro...
August 1, 2017

Three years in the making: The case of “A South Italian Bell-Krater by Python in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” results in seizure.

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On June 1, 2014 this blog published a distilled version of an academic investigation which heavily documented details from an article in t...