The Journal of Art Crime, Spring 2011: Derek Fincham looks at "Stealing" Street Art from a Blighted Canvas in "An Empty Frame: Thinking about Art Crime"

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ARCA's Academic Director Derek Fincham looks at '"Stealing" Street Art from a Blighted Canvas'in his column "An Empty Frame: Thinking About Art Crime" for the Spring 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime, the first peer-reviewed academic journal on the interdisciplinary study of art crime.

Mr. Fincham, an Assistant Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law and author of the weblog Illicit Cultural Property, writes about the group of artists in Detroit which removed a 1,500 pound piece of wall from an abandoned Packard plant that had been used by street artist Banksy to paint a young boy writing "I remember when all this was trees".

You may read more about this controversy in The Journal of Art Crime, edited by ARCA founder and president Noah Charney, by subscribing to the journal through the ARCA website or purchasing individual issues through Amazon.com.