Boston's MFA's Provenance Curator Victoria Reed Lecturing Tonight at The Getty Center "Tales from an Art Detective: The Eventful Lives of Art Objects"

Victoria Reed, Monica S. Adler Assistant Curator for Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is speaking tonight at the Getty Center...

Jonathan Keats' FORGED: Eric Hebborn (1934-1996)

ARCA Blog Editor Catherine Sezgin continues her look at Jonathan Keats book FORGED. [ Here's a link to a 45-minute documentary on the a...

Jonathan Keats' FORGED: Han van Meegeren (1889-1947)

Han van Meegeren's "Supper at Emmaus" Review excerpt by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief Forged...

Dr. Joris Kila Reports on Feb. 1 Fire that Damaged the former American Embassy at the Historic Villa Casdagli in Cairo

Old interior picture of Villa Casdagli Hall and Chapel. Photo by Jeremy Young. This is a report from Dr. Joris Kila, Chairman of the Interna...

Jonathan Keats' FORGED: Alceo Dossena (1878-1937)

Madonna and Child, marble Alceo Dossena, 1930 San Diego Museum of Art Artist and critic Jonathan Keats highlighted Italian forger...

Jonathan Keats' FORGED: What Is Belief? Lothar Malskat (1913-1988)

by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief The artist who copyrighted his mind in 2003, Jonathan Keats, questions the concept ...

Cambodia Says Sotheby's Jane A. Levine Should Leave Culture Panel

Cambodia's minister of culture and fine arts protested the inclusion of Jane A. Levine, senior vice president and worldwide compliance d...

NZ's Sunday magazine features international art theft expert and ARCA Lecturer Judge Arthur Tompkins

Here's a link to an article in the magazine of the Sunday Star-Times in New Zealand featuring ARCA Lecturer Judge Arthur Tompkins on ho...

Non-profit Sustainable Preservation Initiative Launching Crowdfunding Campaign for Two Projects in Peru

by Rebekah Junkermeier, Sustainable Preservation Initiative In two previous guest blog posts in May of 2012, I introduced the unique ...

ARCA Alum Julia Brennan Invited to Speak at the Conference on Protection of Cultural Property in Asia, Feb. 15-18, 2013

Julia Brennan ARCA Alum (2009) and textile conservator Julia Brennan will be one of the speakers at the Conference on Protection of Cultural...

Update on King Tut: From Harvard to Highclere (location of Downton Abbey)

The burial mask of King Tut Recent DNA analysis indicates King Tut was the son of Nefertiti and her first cousin Akhenaten, French Egyptolog...

Paris Match Reports Jean Jacques Fernier's confirmation that found painting belongs to Courbet's "L'Origine du Monde'

Courbet's L'Origine du Monde (1866) on display in 2009 at Musée d'Orsay in Paris /Photo by C. Sezgin The feminist painting L...

Bosnian Culture Heritage Survived the War but will it Survive the Nation's Peace?

by Lynda Albertson, ARCA's CEO Bosnia's shuttered national museum in Sarajevo and the Bosnian Commission for Historic Monuments...

ARCA 2013 Call for Presenters at the Fifth Annual Conference on Art Crime

Nutella pizza at Porcelli's ... tiramisu from Massimo's... prosecco on the patio at Bar Leonardi ... a glass of wine in the afternoo...

Portrait of a Museum Theft Case: The 2007 Robbery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice

Jan Brueghel the Elder's  "Allegorie de la terre" by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Last night after lo...