Sarah Zimmer on “The Investigation of Object TH 1988.18: Rembrandt’s 100 Guilder Print”

By Kirsten Hower, ARCA Intern Sarah Zimmer is a part-time faculty member at the Art Institute of Michigan’s Photography department and teach...

Leila Amineddoleh on “The Pillaging of the Abandoned Spanish Countryside”

Leila Amineddoleh By Molly Cotter, ARCA Intern Leila Amineddoleh, a 2010 alumnus of ARCA’s Master’s program in International Art Crime studi...

Author and Historian Peter Watson Discussed What He Called “Some Unpublished and Un-pulishable Details about Recent Art Crimes”

Peter Watson (Photo by Urska Charney) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin Peter Watson, author of numerous books including “The Medici Conspiracy”...

"Stealing Beauty: Art Crime during War" a public lecture by Judge Arthur Tompkins on July 29

Art Crime Writer Fabio Isman on "The Biggest Looting: an awful story that will never end" and his latest book "Il predatori dell’arte perduta: il saccheggio dell'archeologia in Italia"

Fabio Isman (Photo by Urska Charney) by Jessica Graham Nielsen, ARCA Intern Fabio Isman, a celebrated investigative journalist in Rome, who ...

Neil Brodie Awarded the Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award for Art Crime Scholarship

Neil Brodie (with Derek Fincham and Noah Charney  in the background; photo by Urska Charney) by Mark Durney, Founder of Art Theft Central At...

South African Lawyer Specializing in art law, shares his experiences with conferences in Milan and Amelia

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief The ARCA blog has been running a series of posts about the speakers who presented a...

ARCA Award for Art Policing & Recovery Given to Paolo Ferri at International Art Crime Conference

Paolo Ferri and Noah Charney (Photo by Urska Charney) By Catherine Schofield Sezgin Paolo Giorgio Ferri received ARCA’s Award for Art Polici...

Elena Franchi on “Under the Protection of the Holy See: The Florentine Works of Art and Their Moving to Alto Adige in 1944”

Elena Franchi Update: This is post has been republished with corrections. On July 9, at ARCA's International Art Crime Conference, Elena...

Annika Kuhn on “The Looting of Cultural Property: A View from Classical Antiquity”

Update: This post has been republished with corrections. by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Annika B. Kuhn, currently ...

Laurie Rush on "Art Crime: Effects of a Global Issue at the Community Level"

by Mark Durney, Founder of Art Theft Central At ARCA’s third annual international art crime conference in mid-July, Dr. Laurie Rush, the Boo...

Judge Arthur Tompkins on Gustav Klimt's "The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer"

by Judge Arthur Tompkins The luminous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer now hangs in the Neue Galerie, on New York’s Fifth Avenue. How it got ...

ARCA's 2011 IACC: Charlotte Woodhead on “Assessing the Moral Strength of Holocaust Art Restitution Claims”

By Molly Cotter, ARCA Intern At ARCA's third annual International Art Crime Conference in Amelia on July 9, Charlotte Woodhead, Assistan...

Maria Elena Versari on “Iconoclasm by (Legal) Proxy: Restoration, Legislation and the Ideological Decay of Fascist Ruins”

Update: This post has been republished with corrections. By Kirsten Hower, ARCA Intern Maria Elena Versari, the Assistant Professor of Moder...

Duncan Chappell on “Forgery of Australian Aboriginal Art”

Duncan Chappell by Molly Cotter, ARCA Intern Professor Duncan Chappell, Chair of the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security Internati...

Saskia Hufnagel on “Harmonising Police Cooperation in the Field of Art Crime in Australia and the European Union”

Saskia Hufnagel in Amelia, Italy by Kirsten Hower, ARCA Intern Dr. Saskia Hufnagel, a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Cen...

Ludo Block on "European Police Cooperation on Art Crime"

by Mark Durney, founder of Art Theft Central Ludo Block, a former Dutch police officer and current investigator at Grant Thornton, recently ...

Arthur Tompkins on “Paying a Ransom: The Theft of 96 Rare Medals and the Reward Payments”

by Molly Cotter, ARCA Intern Judge Arthur Tompkins opened the 3rd annual ARCA International Art Crime Conference with an engaging discussion...

ARCA's 2011 International Art Crime Conference: Mayor Riccardo Maraga Welcomed the Participants to Amelia

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, Editor-in-chief Mayor Riccardo Maraga welcomed participants of ARCA's third annual International Art Crim...

Report of the UNESCO meeting commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1970 Convention

UNESCO recently posted pictures and a report of the commemoration meeting held in March 2011 of the 40th anniversary of the 1970 Convention....

Judge Arthur Tompkins on The Codex Aureus of Lorsch and the De Arte Venandi in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Part III)

by Judge Arthur Tompkins, ARCA Lecturer and blog contributor It turned out to be a much smaller, slimmer volume that the Codex Aureus. But i...

Judge Arthur Tompkins on The Codex Aureus of Lorsch and the De Arte Venandi in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Part II)

by Judge Arthur Tompkins, ARCA Instructor and blog contributor The Manuscripts Reading Room The Vatican Library’s main Manuscripts Reading R...

Judge Arthur Tompkins on The Codex Aureus of Lorsch and the De Arte Venandi in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Part I)

The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library by Judge Arthur Tompkins The Pope's personal library - Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana – was fou...