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Ton Cremer’s MSN- Protected: Stolen art haul recovered from home of V&A worker: From the archive, 5 June 1954 | From the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
- Protected: When is an Utrillo not an Utrillo? – The Art Newspaper
- Protected: Christies pulls works after forgery concerns – The Art Newspaper
- Protected: How Timbuktu’s manuscripts were smuggled to safety
- Protected: SCOOP: New Evidence Of Stolen Idols at the National Gallery of Australia | CHASING APHRODITE
Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire- Illegal Gambling and Money Laundering Prompt Forfeiture Complaint for Artwork
- Museum of Fine Arts Curator Offers Due Diligence Model, Saying "Ignorance is No Excuse"
- Statues From New York's Met Museum Repatriated to Cambodia
- Want to Learn More About Cultural Property Law?
- Black or White? Carved Rhino Horns Sold at Auction, Targeted for Forfeiture
Paul Barford’s Portable Antiquities and Heritage Issues
Derek Fincham’s Illicit Cultural Property
It Surfaced Down Under
David Gill’s Looting Matters
Conflict Antiquities- Occupy Gezi: a summary of the origins and development of the protests
- We won: Herefordshire’s campaign against the severing of museum funding
- free archaeology: austerity Britain – museum workers and entire workforces are replaced with volunteers
- Lebanon: police sting on Syrian antiquities smuggler-dealers
- free archaeology in Turkey: the archaeology graduate without a future
The Association for Research into Crimes against Art- Report from Amelia: ARCA Intern Yasmin Hamed on Noah Charney's Course in 'Art Crime & Its History'Assisi by Yasmin Hamed, ARCA Summer Intern After week one of getting to grips with classes and living like Amerini, the ARCA-ites hit the ground running this week both in and out of the classroom. Monday’s cold weather was met with a warm welcome from Dr. Noah Charney, ARCA’s very own founder and expert in art crime for the beginning of a week delving into h […]
- Amsterdam Diary: "Van Gogh at Work" rebukes myth of solitary impulsive genius with the story of a disciplined artist influenced by his peersCrowd at Van Gogh's Potato Eaters Sunday afternoon AMSTERDAM, Sunday - This weekend the Van Gogh Museum attracted the same high-density crowd through its doors as the nearby Rijksmuseum. After a nine-month closure, the museum re-opened with "Van Gogh at Work", an educational exhibit focusing on Vincent Van Gogh's disciplined training to b […]
- Amsterdam Diary: Visiting the newly opened Rijksmuseum is worth the stopover (and the day)Inside the Rijksmuseum bike tunnel by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief SUNDAY, Amsterdam - Saturday morning I avoided getting lost cycling through Amsterdam by using the Google maps I had printed out before I'd left home. I stopped by De Bakkerswinkel for thick buttered raisin bread and a latte for breakfast -- a crucial element as […]
- Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Publishes Annual Bulletins of Stolen Art OnlineTon Cremers for Museum Security Network sent out a valuable link to "Art in Ostaggio - Art in Hostage", bilingual bulletins of stolen works of art prepared by the Comando Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale from 2004-2012 designed to combat against the worldwide problem of the illegal art market. The 124-page report for 2012 includes a statemen […]
- Amsterdam Diary: Personal suffering displayed at World Press Photo Exhibit Amidst Red Light DistrictWorld Press Photo Exhibit at De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief SATURDAY, Amsterdam - Yesterday I arrived in Amsterdam and biked over to the World Press Photo exhibit at De Oude Kerk ('The Old Church') in the Red Light district famous for women selling their bodies in front windows and customers smoking […]
- Report from Amelia: ARCA Intern Yasmin Hamed on Noah Charney's Course in 'Art Crime & Its History'
Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag- Juan Cole visits the Iraq Museum
- Governing without a state: The stakes for archaeological heritage
- Welcome, America, to the world collectors have made, in which no cultural patrimony is safe from looting, not even that of white Southerners
- On the UN's New Campaign to Educate Tourists Not to Buy Dodgy Antiquities
- Economics of Looting: The Costs of Production
Elginism — Repatriation Issues- The Acropolis Museum – A Greek success story four years on
- Germany’s moral right to reclaim from Russia the treasures (that they looted from others)
- Look but don’t touch doesn’t seem to apply at the British Museum
- The Lego Acropolis at Sydney’s Nicholson Museum
- Feds sieze over $100 million in smuggled art from Subhash Kapoor
Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl- Everyone But the Artist: Gehry, Govan, Campbell, Barron and Prather at Ken Price Retrospective (with video)
- Detroit’s Emergency Manager’s Proposals Spare Detroit Institute’s Art (plus DIA’s work behind scenes)
- Best Artworld News You’ve Had Today: Michigan AG Opposes Sales of Detroit Institute’s Art UPDATED TWICE
- Ownership vs. Stewardship: Timothy Rub on the “New Order of the Day” for Cultural Property CORRECTED
- AAMD President Timothy Rub and the New Rules for Cultural-Property Engagement
Tom FlynnLaw Enforcement
- FBI Art Squad FBI’s Art Detail
- Carabinieri Art Squad The Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, Italy’s Art Squad.
- Interpol Art Detail Interpol has tracked the trade in stolen art since 1947.
- ICE ICE Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Investigations
Museums
- The Getty The website of the J. Paul Getty Trust
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Greek and Roman Galleries of the Met
- Boston MFA Art of the Ancient World at the Boston MFA
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Arnold-Peter Weiss and the Rhode Island School of Design
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EXCLUSIVE: NYC DA Says Prominent Surgeon Knew He Was Selling Looted Coin
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