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Ton Cremer’s MSN- Protected: Broughton & Birnie – The Forger’s Tale: The Quest for Fame and Fortune at WW Gallery | Exhibition review
- Protected: Parolee charged in museum theft
- Protected: Picasso vandal sentenced to two years jail time – The Art Newspaper
- Protected: Money Launderers Using Art to Cover Criminality
- Protected: Glafira Rosales Is Named in Government Suit – Dealer at Center of Art Scandal Arrested on Tax Charges
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire
- Discovery Delay Asserted by Government as Sotheby's Seeks Preliminary Court Hearing on Cambodian Ownership
- Roman, Byzantine and Other Conflict Antiquities from Syria
- Government Petitions to Dismiss Charges in Korean Currency Case
- U.S. Attorney Files Complaint to Forfeit Peruvian Artifacts Seized at Miami International Airport
- "Claimants Deny Knowledge," Affirmative Defenses Raised in Sotheby's Cambodian Sculpture Case
- 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
- Have you done free archaeology (or irrelevant labour) on workfare? Do you know someone who has? Out the ‘employers’!
- Syria: antiquities-for-arms trade – Sky News interview
- free archaeology: institutionalised exploitation in the museum sector
- free archaeology: precarisation, privatisation, austerity and workfare in the Big Society
- Syria: ‘Men With Guns’ in the antiquities-for-arms trade
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- Speakers list released for ARCA's 5th Annual Art & Heritage Conference in Amelia June 21-23, 2013View of the hilltop town of Amelia in Umbria(Photo by C. Sezgin) The Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) has released the speaker list for it's 5th Annual Art & Heritage Conference in Amelia from June 21 to 23. Speakers anticipated: Toby bull, Senior Inspector, Hong Kong Police Force, "Property of a Hong Kong Gentleman, Art […]
- Padma Kaimal, author of "Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis" traveled to museums to study the legacy from a lost temple in South IndiaKait Murphy (ARCA '11) in front of 10th century Kanchipuram yoginiat the Sackler Galleries of Art inWashington D.C. Kait Murphy (ARCA 2011) interviews Padma Kaimal, the Author of “Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis” which examines the cultural history, theft, and reunion of South Indian temple sculptures. What happens to sacred objects lost […]
- Scottish Museums Close Tomorrow Morning as Part of a Three-Day Strike for Better Pay & PensionsLast month the Louvre staff protested against pickpockets (following a series of strikes in 1999 and 2009 against reductions in staff). This month, the staff of two Edinburgh museums will begin a three-day strike tomorrow for better pay and better pensions, reports The Scotsman: THE National Museum of Scotland and National War Museum will be closed until lun […]
- Decanter.com's John Stimpfig spotlights "The Wine Forger's Handbook" by wine journalist Stuart George and ARCA Founder Noah CharneyWine connoisseur John Stimpfig spotlights the The Wine Forger's Handbook by wine journalist Stuart George and ARCA Founder Noah Charney in Decanter.com, the online publication of the international wine magazine: The slim volume gives a short history of forgery and fraud in the wine world, before going on to detail two short case studies covering two of […]
- The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her thief, The True Story Headed to Denver Art Museum this Friday and to the Biografilm Festival in Bologna in JuneThe Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, The True Story, the documentary about the 1911 theft of Leonardo da Vinci's now famous portrait of Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo from the Louvre, premiered in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on Saturday, May 11. "We were thrilled to have The Missing Piece screen at Grauman's Chinese Theate […]
- Speakers list released for ARCA's 5th Annual Art & Heritage Conference in Amelia June 21-23, 2013
- Larry Rothfield’s The Punching Bag
- 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
- Are We Barking Up the Wrong Tree?
- Elginism — Repatriation Issues
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- Lee Rosenbaum’s CultureGrrl
- Thomas Messer, 93, Guggenheim’s Rock-Solid Director
- Special Events: Why I’ve Stopped Writing (for now)
- Expansion Derailed: Peabody Essex Terminates Relationship with the Late Rick Mather’s Firm
- Benny Andrews Rediscovered: Holland Cotter (and my) Appreciation of Michael Rosenfeld’s Retrospective
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro May Keep Folk Art Building in Designing MoMA’s New Galleries
- Tom Flynn
- Mum’s the word: Should we alert art thieves to the value of their haul?
- Bacon slicer brings screaming pope to auction
- Lines on the Goulandris family art feud (or 'Aspasia and the Pot of Basil')
- European Commission Vice President seeks legislation to strengthen demands for restitution of “national treasures.”
- Courbet's Origin of the World: a field day for psychoanalysts
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Kapoor Case: Investigation into Stolen Indian Idols Will Test Museum Transparency
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Chasing Aphrodite 2012: The Year in Review
Happy New Year from Chasing Aphrodite. It’s been a year and a half since our book was published, and during that time the hunt for looted antiquities at the world’s museums has gone global. Over the past 12 months we’ve … Continue reading
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