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Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire- Roman, Byzantine and Other Conflict Antiquities from Syria
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The Association for Research into Crimes against 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 […]
- Boston Globe's Todd Wallack on "Prized stolen art frequently resurfaces after decades"John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)Painting of William Ponsonby,Second Earl of Bessborough, 1790 The Boston Globe's Todd Wallack points to the increased chance of recovery stolen art years after the theft in "Prized stolen art frequently resurfaces after decades" (May 10, 2013). Wallack recounts the recovery of John Singleton Copley's portr […]
- Padma Kaimal, author of "Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis" traveled to museums to study the legacy from a lost temple in South India
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- Free admission & special events for International Museums Day
- Anthony Horowitz expresses his support for the return of the Parthenon Marbles
- Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
- 71 Native American Hopi & Zuni masks to be auctioned in Paris despite protests
- The British museum, Free admission & the Parthenon Marbles
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
Law 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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CAVEAT EMPTOR: Arnold Peter Weiss on the Dangers of the Ancient Coin Trade
UPDATED BELOW. Caveat Emptor, the court-mandated essay written by Rhode Island coin dealer Arnold Peter Weiss, is a long-overdue call for collectors of ancient coins to begin following the law. Weiss is the prominent Rhode Island hand surgeon and ancient … Continue reading
Castor and Pollux, Forgeries and Loot: Reflections on the Arnold Peter Weiss Case
Looting and forgery are the Castor and Pollux of the antiquities trade, bound together by a love of murky origins. That appears to be the lesson of the guilty plea earlier this month by coin dealer Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, … Continue reading
The Case of the Dodgy Drachmas: Arnold Peter Weiss, Prominent Rhode Island Surgeon, Pleads Guilty; “Looted” Coins Prove Forgeries.
Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, a prominent Rhode Island hand surgeon and dealer in ancient coins, pleaded guilty in New York City Tuesday to three counts of attempted criminal possession of ancient coins he believed had been recently looted from Italy. … Continue reading
Federal Investigators Behind Criminal Case Against Coin Dealer Arnold Peter Weiss
[See below for updates.] Dr. Arnold Peter Weiss, the Rhode Island doctor arrested in New York City on Jan. 3 for allegedly trying to sell a looted ancient coin, had his first court appearance in a Manhattan criminal court on … Continue reading
Arnold Peter Weiss’ 46 donations to RISD Museum of Art
The Rhode Island School of Design has provided a complete list of donations made by former museum chairman Arnold Peter Weiss, the Providence doctor and collector of ancient coins who was arrested in New York last month for possession of … Continue reading
Arnold Peter Weiss’ Coin Partner and The Getty Connection
A surprising detail emerged while we were reading about Nomos AG, the Swiss coin dealership whose principal, Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, was arrested on January 3 for felony possession of an ancient coin allegedly looted recently in Sicily. One of Weiss’ … Continue reading
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Arnold-Peter Weiss and the Rhode Island School of Design
*UPDATED: See below for additional information from RISD and Harvard Art Museums. Dr. Arnold-Peter Weiss, the Rhode Island coin collector arrested Jan. 3 for felony possession of an ancient coin that authorities say he knew was recently looted from Sicily, … Continue reading
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
Feds: Subhash Kapoor “one of the most prolific commodities smugglers in the world.”
Federal authorities announced this week that they have seized an estimated $100 million worth of ancient art linked to Subhash Kapoor, the New York art dealer currently facing trial in India — and an arrest warrant in the United States — … Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: NYC DA Says Prominent Surgeon Knew He Was Selling Looted Coin
A prominent Rhode Island surgeon and collector of ancient coins was arrested on January 3rd in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for felony possession of an ancient coin recently looted from Sicily. Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, a world-renowned hand surgeon … Continue reading
