Renoir Stolen from Baltimore Art Museum in 1951 found in West Virginia at a flea market two years ago; this weekend's sale aborted; legal battle likely to ensue over who gets the painting

Today's scheduled auction sale of a newly discovered Renoir landscape was cancelled this week when a Washington Post reporter discovered...

Santa Monica Police Department Works with Pasadena Police Department and other agencies to recover art stolen from Jeffrey Gundlach's collection

Art work by Franz Kline stolen and recovered by Catherine Schofield Sezgin,   ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief This evening Richard Lewis, Sergeant...

LA Times: 'Jeffrey Gundlach's stolen art collection is recovered'

The Los Angeles Times sent out a 'breaking news' email at 5:59 p.m. on September 27: Recovered art work by Philip Guston (1950) Sta...

Santa Monica Art Collector offers Million Dollar Reward for Stolen Mondrian plus $500,000 for other paintings

Composition (A) En Rouge Et Blanc by Piet Mondrian by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Santa Monica is a liberal seaside town -- ...

Egypt Exploration Society's 'Webinar' September 29 to discuss the issues of the (legal) antiquities trade and Egyptology

The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) welcomes participation in its September 29 'webinar' discussion, led by panellists including Dav...

Private insurer offers up to $50,000 reward for information leading to the return of a Renoir painting stolen from a Texas residence last year; FBI adds "Madeleine Leaning on Her Elbow with Flowers in Her Hair" to Top 10 Art Crimes

Today the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a press release adding a stolen Renoir painting, "Madeleine Leaning on Her Elbo...

Movies "The Maiden Heist" and "St. Trinian's" offer fun comic twists on the art heist caper

Worcester Art Museum's Renaissance Court (WAM) by Catherine Sezgin,  ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief In Southern California from where I edit ...

Documentarian Brent Huffman Warns of Dangerous Precedent Being Set in Afghanistan if Mes Aynak is destroyed in ordered to mine copper

Brent Huffman filming one of the temples set for destruction (Frank Petrella)  by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Documentary filmmaker B...

Mess Aynak's archaeological wealth from the Bronze Age to ancient Buddhists threatened by excavation of world's second largest copper deposit

An Afghan archaeologist examines  a Buddha in Mes Aynak (Penn Museum) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor What are Buddhas doing in Islami...

Postcard from LA: Street Art at La Brea-Beverly amongst chic fashions and Hasidic Jews

Street art tucked away in corner of car wash at La Brea and Beverly in Los Angeles. by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA blog editor-in-chief Graffiti ...

ARCA Opens Application for 2013 Postgraduate Certificate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

View of the civic tower from the garden of Palazzo Farrattini The official application period for ARCA's 2013 Postgraduate Certificate P...

40th anniversary of Canada's biggest art theft quietly passes

This painting by Rembrandt was stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts  in 1972 and remains missing.  by Catherine Schofield Sezgin,   ...