Anthony Amore Discussing "Stealing Rembrandts" on "It's a Crime" Saturday afternoon on the radio

Anthony Amore, Security Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and co-author of " Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of ...

ARCA's Fourth Annual Conference, Friday-Sunday

View the conference program and abstracts here

UNESCO promotes public awareness of illicit trafficking of cultural property with 2011 Documentary "Stealing the Past"

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Here’s a link to the website and video for “Stealing the Past”, co-produced by dev.tv; One ...

UNESCO'S Headquarters in Paris Hosts Second Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention (June 20 & 21)

UNESCO'S Picasso Mural "The Fall of Icarus" 1958 by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor UNESCO Headquarters in Paris is  host i...

Book Review (Part III): Anne-Marie O'Connor's "Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Baur

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief In June, 1908, Klimt unveiled his gold portrait of the 26-year-old Adele, making ...

Opening a new classical art museum in the post-1970 Convention Era

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin,  ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Last April British business Christian Levett opened a museum to display the more t...

Book Review (Part II): Anne-Marie O'Connor's "Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief In 1898, 17-year-old Adele, the daughter of Viennese banker Moritz Bauer, meets her...

Book Review (Part I): Anne-Marie O'Connor's "Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

By Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief In 1907 prosperous Vienna, the great cultural center of Europe, two events happened...

Stonehill College's "The World of Art and the Fine Art of Crime" Symposium has added seats

Retired FBI Agent Virginia Curry, who will co-teach with Dick Ellis "The World of Art and the Fine Art of Crime" symposium at Sto...

Reviewing two stolen Corot paintings and updating the catalogue raisonné of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Corot's "The Dreamer"/MMFA by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Theft and authenticity intertwined in the ...

Destroyed in WWII: Klimt's "Schubert at the Piano" (1899)

Gustav Klimt's "Schubert at the Piano", 1899 by Catherine Schofield Sezgin,   ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief Mizzi Zimmerman was th...

The New York Times' Randy Kennedy Reports on how austerity measures in Greece is affecting state archaeologists and the country's heritage

Minoan Marine Style Pottery/NMAA by Catherine Sezgin,  ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Turkish journalist Özgen Açar sent out a link to June 11 ar...

FBI: Violent and Property Crimes Down (no separate accounting for antiquities or art theft)

FBI's National Stolen Art File: Picasso's Dance by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief A newly released Federal Bureau of In...

Boston Globe: FBI plans public awareness campaign aimed at recovering paintings stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief I am always curious when a new article is published more than two decades after the world'...

Anniversary of Gustave Courbet's Birth and the Number of Stolen Courbet Paintings Reported by Interpol

Courbet's Coastal Landscape in North of France /Interpol by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Huffington Post contributor Pri...

Accusations of money laundering, vandalism and the theft of a Picasso lithograph in Northern California at a mansion allegedly belonging to the former Ukrainian Prime Minister

Novato mansion/Associated Press The theft of a Picasso lithograph, accusations of money laundering, and vandalism converge in an abandoned m...

Paolo Ferri and Jason Felch on Wikiloot

ARCA's Annual Conference in Amelia Tom Kington reports for the Guardian on the efforts of Jason Felch to use crowdsourcing to help polic...

Retired FBI Agent Virginia Curry Editorializes about Help Wanted Advertisement at the Guggenheim

by Virginia M. Curry, Guest Contributor and Editorial HELP WANTED: ART EDUCATOR AND SECURITY GUARD, MASTERS DEGREE PREFERRED FOR FULL TIME E...

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

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Lea Bondi’s grand niece, Ruth Rozanek, told the filmmakers of “Portrait of Wally” that Lea Bo...