RAND Europe: "Assessing the illegal trade in cultural property from a public policy perspective"

RAND Europe has publicly published online, "Assessing the illegal trade in cultural property from a public policy perspective", a...

Post from Norway: Unknown Rubens work hung on the wall for 80 years at National Museum

Photo from National Museum By Therese Veier, ARCA Blog Norwegian Correspondent It has just been discovered that a very valuable work,  by th...

New Zealand: Summer Intensive course – Art Crime during Armed Conflict

Hamilton, New Zealand Down in New Zealand, the University of Waikato’s Te Piringa-Faculty of Law and the University’s Centre for Continued E...

New Zealand: Prison Term Begins for Thief of National Army Museum

by Judge Arthur Tompkins, ARCA Blog New Zealand Correspondent Yesterday, Friday 18 November, in New Zealand one of the more prolific and lon...

Part Two: Conserving the Treasured Wall Fabrics of the Turkish Ballroom 2002-2007

Julia Brennan sewing net over damaged areas of silk by Julia M. Brennan ARCA Washington DC Correspondent Part two Atasoy describes that tent...

Part One: Conserving the Treasured Wall Fabrics of the Turkish Ballroom 2002-2007

Julia at work in 2004 Julia M. Brennan ARCA Washington DC Correspondent Part one In 2002 the Turkish government launched the renovation of t...

Revisiting the Turkish Residence – The Ballroom’s “Ottoman style” Wall Fabrics

The Turkish Residence By Julia M. Brennan ARCA Washington DC Correspondent This story is not about art theft or repatriation, rather it is a...

LA Times' Richard Winton Reports on the LA City Council's Mural Ban and the Lost Art

Street art and advertising mix (Beverly & La Brea) Photo by Catherine Sezgin by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog editor-in-chief Ri...

ARCA Award Winner Paolo Ferri Featured in Smithsonian Magazine

Last summer ARCA awarded Paolo Ferri, a former Italian State prosecutor, for his work in Art Policing and Recovery, the first award the for...

Today's Zaman: "Turkey's museums at risk if hit by earthquake"

Today's Zaman reported November 10th that "few of Turkey's archaeology museums or storage facilities have been built to a cod...

Jason Felch on Deadline LA (Radio): "See No Evil, The Policy of Art Looters at the Getty and other museums"

Barbara Osborn and Harold Bloom conduct a 30 minute discussion with Jason Felch, co-author with Ralph Frammolino of "Chasing Aphrodite...

Noah Charney for ArtInfo Interviews Sandy Nairne, National Portrait Gallery Director and Author of "Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners"

Noah Charney, ARCA founder and president, published on ArtInfo an interview with Sandy Nairne, the director of London's National Portra...

Report from DC: American Friends of Turkey hosted lecture on the Sixty-Five Years of Perge Excavations

Ballroom of the Turkish Residence, Washington DC  (Photo by Julia Brennan) By Julia M. Brennan ARCA Blog Washington Correspondent www.caring...

The Collecting History of Stolen Art: Da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine"

Da Vinci's "Lady  with an Ermine" by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor-in-chief Leonardo Da Vinci's "Lady ...

Art Restitution: Klimt painting sold for $40.4m after being returned to owner's grandson

Klimt's "Litzlberg on the Attersee" 1918 by Catherine Schofiled Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief BBC News (online) reported &...

Noah Charney on Studying Art Crime: A Masters Taught by Police and Professors

By Noah Charney for ArtInfo ARCA’s Masters Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection Studies is now taking applicati...

Noah Charney on Martin Kemp and Lost and Stolen Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings

Noah Charney, founder and president of ARCA, has recently published three articles covering the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 ( The Patriot...

Link to Tom Flynn's blog: Auction house to offer rare Chinese Qing dynasty Imperial gilt metal box looted from Beijing Summer Palace

Chinese gilt metal box Tom Flynn, a London-based journalist and art historian, writes with passion about the business of selling art. Recen...

The Collecting History of Stolen Art: Portrait of Église Saint Roch patron

Saint Roch (ParisDailyPhoto) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Eric Tenin, who describes himself as a 'friendly P...

Marc Masurovsky provides perspective on Lawsuit regarding disputed Modigliani painting "Seated Man with Cane'

Modigliani's "Seated  Man with Cane" (1918) by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Most of my art crime news...