November 7, 2024

From Gallery to 'Washing Machine': How One Art Dealer’s Love for Banksy Served as Cover for an International Drug Ring

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On 11 May 2022, officers involved in the Eurojust 'Arkan' operation, assisting in the investigation begun by the District Anti-Mafia...
November 1, 2024

Edoardo Almagià Wanted: Manhattan DA Seeks Arrest of Dealer in Major Antiquities Smuggling Case

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Just over a year ago, ARCA published a post highlighting  suspect artefacts which passed through Michael L. Ward's variously named galle...

Explosion Rocks MPV Gallery in Oisterwijk, High-Value Warhol Artworks Stolen

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A powerful explosion at 03:05 am tore through the MPV Gallery on Dorpsstraat in Oisterwijk, a city in the south of the Netherlands.  This in...
October 30, 2024

Derzhprom Under Fire: The Bombing of Kharkiv’s Historic UNESCO cited Skyscraper

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In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, has long impacted the city of Kharkiv, but Russia's bombing this week struck the his...
October 28, 2024

Protecting the Past, Shaping the Future: ARCA’s Two 2025 Postgraduate Certificate Programmes in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage

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In 2025, ARCA is breaking new ground by offering not one, but two Postgraduate Certificate Programmes in art crime and cultural heritage.  W...
October 25, 2024

Outdone by a tube of paint costing €79, Vittorio Sgarbi's alleged involvement in a painting scandal could cost him 4 to 12 years in prison

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Italy's Macerata prosecutor’s office has concluded its investigation into the theft of the painting   The Capture of Saint Peter   by Ru...
October 16, 2024

Santa Rosa di Viterbo or Saint Margaret of Cortona: It's all in a Saint's name.

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  In December 2019 Alejandro Corral, president of the Realejo neighbourhood association alerted the Environmental Prosecutor's Office of...

Cocaine, Van Goghs and a narco kingpin's Imperial life in Dubai

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For several years ARCA has followed the escapades of Raffaele Imperiale, one of Italy's most important (and violent) drug dealers, who ...
October 15, 2024

Urban Tombaroli and Two Clandestine Excavations: Near the Villa at Oplontis and in Central Naples

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The Carabinieri have uncovered a clandestine excavation in Torre Annunziata, believed to be aimed at looting artefacts from the renowned Vil...
October 14, 2024

Stolen Funerary Artefact Returns to Ad Decimum Catacombs

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Yesterday, a homecoming took place in Grottaferrata, Italy, marking the final passage in the return of an important marble funerary artefact...