“Chasing Aphrodite is an epic story that, from the first page, grabs you by the lapels and won’t let go. Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino have penetrated the inner sanctum of one of the world’s most powerful museums, exposing how its caretakers – blinded by greed, arrogance and self-deception – eagerly tapped international networks of criminals in pursuit of the next great masterpiece. It is a breathtaking tale that I guarantee will keep you reading late into the night.”
Kurt Eichenwald
Author of Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
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- Crimean Site Damaged by Occupant in Infrastructure Works
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- Italian Senate renews call for return of the ‘Bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth’
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- Online Symposium on the Benin Bronzes Friday Apr. 9
- University of Aberdeen will repatriate a Benin bronze to Nigeria
- Conflict Antiquities
- Russia was ‘doomed to expand [its] aggression’ against Ukraine: Cultural property criminals’ responses to the invasion and occupation of the Donbas since 20th February 2014
- propagandist fighter Maxim Fomin and the supply of metal detectors by artefact hunters for mine clearing by Russia’s forces in Ukraine
- Destructive Exploitation and care of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management (DECOPE)
- a very low estimate of metal-detecting in the United Kingdom, according to the Portable Antiquities Scheme
- loot and forgeries from Eastern Europe on the market in Western Europe, regardless of Russia’s war on Ukraine
- artefact-hunting in drug plantations and by cannabis-cultivators in Ukraine (around 2014)
- attitudes to personal and public health precautions among artefact-hunters amid the Covid-19 pandemic
- human rights worker and anti-imperialist fighter Maksym Butkevych has been captured by Russia’s invading forces
- Russia’s destruction of Ukraine’s cultural property is proof of its intent to commit genocide.
- Russia is subjecting cultural heritage workers and other civilians to the war crime of forced military labour.
- The Association for Research into Crimes against Art
- When a money launderer's art collection comes up for auction
- Christ Church Picture Gallery painting by Baroque painter Salvator Rosa recovered in Romania
- Spain's antiquities dealer arrest and the importance of facts-based reporting
- Arrest made in Spain on Egyptian antiquities smuggling case.
- Stolen Saint: Ukraine Authorities Retrieve the Holy Warrior Bas-Relief of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki from an Online Auction
- Judgment entered in favor of Plaintiff (Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc). against Defendant (Dirk D. Obbink)
- 18 May 2024 - 2024 New Zealand Art Crime Symposium - Art Crime Research Today
- Girolamini Library Theft - Convictions and acquittals in the network of every bookworm's antichrist
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Marks 34th Anniversary of Infamous Art Theft
- The wacky illicit world of one Ushabti of the Pharaoh Taharqa
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