Interpol's Stolen Art Database Reports Eight Cézanne Paintings Missing

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Interpol is the international police organization established in 1923.  In 2009, its database for Stolen Art ...

LAPD Art Cop and his example of a fake Certificate of Authenticity

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Don Hrycyk is the only full-time police officer assigned to investigate art crime a...

HARP's Public Letter to Senator Leahy to Withdraw S.2212/H. R. 4086 (the "Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act" from any consideration or vote

April 15, 2012 The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy Chairman Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate 224 Dirksen Senate Office...

Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia Sold in Germany and the United States according to the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection unit in Sassari

Translation by Francesca Rossi, Our Correspondent in Amelia ARCA blog asked Ms. Rossi to translate the first part of the article " Germ...

Last week's ABC News Video of "Stolen Cézanne Recovered by Serbian Police"

Recovered Cézanne painting Last week ABC News broadcast the video footage of the Serbian police recovering a Cézanne painting hidden in the ...

Dr. Laura Rush Named ARCA's 2012 Writer in Residence

by Lynda Albertson, ARCA CEO Each year, The Association for Research into Crimes against Art honors distinguished and emerging writers speci...

Richard Ellis, founder of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiquities Squad, sets the record straight on recent comments attributed to him on the blog Art Hostage

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief On April 13, 2012,  Art Hostage , a blog on art theft, re-printed an article about the recove...

Irish Artist Michelle Rogers Secures Release of 14 Paintings Seized by Police at Gallery Suspected of Tax Fraud and Money Laundering

Michelle Rogers' Lampuedusa (200 x 300 cm) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Fourteen paintings by Irish artist Michelle Rogers sei...

Associated Press: Serbian officials announce recovery of Degas painting stolen from Bührle Collection in 2008; Ransom paid one year after theft

Degas' Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters/ Bürle by Catherine Sezgin, Editor-in-Chief Serbian officials announced this week that payment of...

Kenya's Dr. George H. O. Abungu Wins 2012 ARCA Award for Lifetime Achievement in Defense of Art

ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards for the year 2012. ARCA...

Serbian Police Recover Cézanne's The Boy in the Red Waistcoast Stolen in 2008 from the E. G. Bührle Collection in Switzerland

Cézanne's "The Boy in  the Red Waistcoast"/ Foundation E. G.  Bührle Collection by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief...

"Chasing Aphrodite" Authors Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Win 2012 Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award for Art Crime Scholarship

ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is pleased to announce the winners of its annual awards for the year 2012. ARCA...

Karl von Habsburg and Dr. Joris Kila Jointly Win 2012 ARCA Award for Art Protection and Security

Joris Kila (right) in Tripoli on 29 September ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is pleased to announce the winner...

Statistics on European Art Crime

by Dr. Ludo Block, Senior Investigator at Grant Thornton Forensic & Investigation Services Netherlands When Poland held the European Uni...