Art Crime Documentary: "Portrait of Wally" (Part Two)

Rudolf Leopold/The Leopold Museum by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor This is a continued review of the art crime documentary "Portra...

Art Crime Documentary: "Portrait of Wally" (Part One)

Egon Schiele's 1912 "Portrait of Wally"/Leopold Museum by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief A Nazi stole Egon Schiel...

Sustainable Preservation Initiative (Part two)

Larry Coben and Dr. Jaime Castillo with a local dance troupe dressed in Moche costumes celebrating the opening of the new artisan training a...

Sustainable Preservation Initiative (Part one)

Incallajta, the ancient Incan site in central Bolivia by Rebekah Junkermeier, Guest contributor Looting, growing crops, grazing cattle, and ...

Police and Art Gallery of New South Wales Suspend Search for Stolen Self-Portrait of Frans van Mieris Stolen in 2008

A Cavalier , a self-portrait by Frans van Mieris Andrew Taylor, arts writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, recently interviewed ARCA's ...

Theft Anniversary: Two years ago five paintings stolen from Museé d'art moderne de la ville de Paris

Braque's beautiful Olive Tree Near Estaque  on display in the museum in January 2009/Photo by C. Sezgin Detail from Braque's paintin...

BBC News reports Italian police seize 100 artworks from man convicted of altering slot machines in bars and cafes

Italian police seized 100 artworks, including an original painting by Salvador Dali, as part of an asset forfeiture of more than 330 million...

REVISITING BOOKS: An Earthquake Shatters Expectations in The Caravaggio Conspiracy

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Peter Watson writes in The Caravaggio Conspiracy that in 1980 when he was trying to negotia...

ARCA Founder Noah Charney and ISGM's Security Director Anthony Amore Talk about the largest art theft in US history and the hunt for the paintings 22 years later; NBC's "American Greed" to feature Gardner Museum Heist Tonight

Vermeer's "The Concert" CNBC's Lindsay Nadrich (with Reuters contributing) writes about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella S...

REVISITING BOOKS: Watson's "The Caravaggio Conspiracy" and the motive for stealing the Palermo Nativity

Agrigento Ephebe by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA blog editor Part two of three In the 1984 book, The Caravaggio Conspiracy , published b...

REVISITING BOOKS: Peter Watson on the Palermo Nativity in the 1984 book "The Caravaggio Conspiracy"

The Palermo Nativity by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Part one of three Repeated rumors of the destruction of Caravaggio'...

Art Crime in Film: Art Theft and Helen Mirren Starring in "Painted Lady" (1997)

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi at the Uffizi Gallery  Just for fun ... "Painted Lady" features the beautiful ...

Courthouse News Service: "Stolen Pissarro Turns Up with Walrus Tusks, Polar Bear Belts"

On May 3, Purna Nemani reported for the Courthouse News Service that stolen paintings had been found by an undercover wildlife agent in Anc...

Update: Von Saher vs. Norton Simon Museum and Norton Simon Foundation

Marei von Saher, the daughter-in-law of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, filed a Notice of Appeal on March 22, 2012 to the U. S. Court...

ARCA Annual Conference, June 23-24, Amelia

In order to encourage continued awareness of the growing field of art crime and cultural heritage protection ARCA will host its fourth-annua...

More confirmation of old news? Pietro Grasso, head of the anti-Mafia crime unit, confirms in May that Caravaggio's Nativity of Palermo eaten by pigs

Caravaggio's Nativity from Palermo In 2009, Judith Harris wrote for the ARCA blog a post titled " Breaking News on the Stolen Cara...

Reuters: "Poussin among stolen art found in Corsica carpark"

Fesch Palais, Corsica Reuters reported May 5th that the four paintings stolen from the Fesch museum in Corsica more than one year ago have ...

Fabio Isman for Il Messaggero: "l'Atleta del Getty deve essere confiscato"

Journalist Fabio Isman wrote on May 4 of the Italian judge's ruling that the Fano Athlete had been smuggled out of Italy and wrongfully ...

Art Crime in Film: Jø Nesbo's "Headhunter" steals art from corporate executives looking for new jobs

Here's another example of how an art thief is portrayed in a movie. The 2011 Swedish film " Headhunter " (the English title no...

The Getty should return the Fano Athlete to Italy, Judge rules

Governor Spacca and an image of the  Fano Athlete at a press conference  in LA last year Jason Felch, who has been covering this story since...

ARCA Grad Julia Brennan helps launch Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles

Julia Brennan in her Thai Ruan Ton dress outside museum. ARCA Alum '09 Julia Brennan, a textile conservator, was one of the internationa...

Curry and Ellis: New website for Stonehill Art Crime Symposium

Virginia Curry and Richard Ellis at Q&A session  at the Southeastern Technical High School, September 2011 Virginia Curry and Richard El...

A Petition for the U. S. Senate to Abandon S. 2212 and to vote for the Stolen Artwork Restitution Act

by Pierre Ciric As a second generation holocaust survivor, I have concluded that S. 2212 , in shielding any government-related forei...

BOOK REVIEW CONCLUDED: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives through the Secret World of Stolen Art

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor (You may find the first two parts here and here ) In London, Julian Radcliffe, founder of the Art Los...