Monday, April 30, 2012

Poker Great Thomas 'Amarillo Slim' Preston Dies - ABC News

Poker Great Thomas 'Amarillo Slim' Preston Dies - ABC News

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426061240/425629159/otto-mueller-sitzende-von-blattwerk-umgeben-helle-fassung.html

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426061240/425629159/otto-mueller-sitzende-von-blattwerk-umgeben-helle-fassung.html

Thursday, April 26, 2012

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: Carlo Of Hollywood: Do the Bop!

STUDIO SOUTH COAST: Carlo Of Hollywood: Do the Bop!: Carlo Of Hollywood: Do the Bop!

Spanish Art: Picasso

Spanish Art: Picasso: Pablo Picasso by Robert Bovington Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga in 1881 and is perhaps the best known of modern painters - certainly he...

ARCAblog: LAPD Art Cop and his example of a fake Certificate...

ARCAblog: LAPD Art Cop and his example of a fake Certificate...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Don Hrycyk is the only full-time police officer assigned to investigate art...

Saturday, April 21, 2012

ARCAblog: Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia So...

ARCAblog: Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia So...: Translation by Francesca Rossi, Our Correspondent in Amelia ARCA blog asked Ms. Rossi to translate the first part of the article " Germ...

ARCAblog: Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia So...

ARCAblog: Looted Nuraghic bronze statuettes from Sardinia So...: Translation by Francesca Rossi, Our Correspondent in Amelia ARCA blog asked Ms. Rossi to translate the first part of the article " Germ...

Friday, April 20, 2012

Center for Art Law: Munch gets stolen all the time, so ...

Center for Art Law: Munch gets stolen all the time, so ...

Center for Art Law: Art As Investment: Buyer beware

Center for Art Law: Art As Investment: Buyer beware

plundered art: The “three graces” of art restitution

plundered art: The “three graces” of art restitution: "The Graces of the Gardens of the Hesperides", Rubens, taken by the ERR Source: Holocaust-Era Assets Portal, NARA, RG 111-SC-374665 Al...

plundered art: “The Portrait of Walli”: The Case that Will Not Go...

plundered art: “The Portrait of Walli”: The Case that Will Not Go...: Portrait of Walli, by Egon Schiele Source: Bloomberg In an odd twist of events that allows Egon Schiele’s “Portrait of Walli” to res...

plundered art: Deconstructing Aphrodite: the Getty Art Museum, lo...

plundered art: Deconstructing Aphrodite: the Getty Art Museum, lo...: The 4th century BC marble sculpture of winged griffins at center of controversy, acquired illegally by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1985...

Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire: Antiquities "Launderer" Pleads Guilty As Co-Defend...

Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire: Antiquities "Launderer" Pleads Guilty As Co-Defend...: Egyptian coffin seized in US v. Khouli et al. Courtesy ICE. Mousa "Morris" Khouli pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling Egyptian cultur...

ARCAblog: Irish Artist Michelle Rogers Secures Release of 14...

ARCAblog: Irish Artist Michelle Rogers Secures Release of 14...: Michelle Rogers' Lampuedusa (200 x 300 cm) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Fourteen paintings by Irish artist Michelle Roge...

ARCAblog: Last week's ABC News Video of "Stolen Cézanne Reco...

ARCAblog: Last week's ABC News Video of "Stolen Cézanne Reco...: Recovered Cézanne painting Last week ABC News broadcast the video footage of the Serbian police recovering a Cézanne painting hidden in...

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Modern Art 2011: Napalm

Modern Art 2011: Napalm: Banksy "Napalm" Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who is known for his controversial statements. Napalm has been used as the gene...

Modern Art 2011: Napalm

Modern Art 2011: Napalm: Banksy "Napalm" Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who is known for his controversial statements. Napalm has been used as the gene...

Modern Art 2011: Napalm

Modern Art 2011: Napalm: Banksy "Napalm" Banksy is an anonymous graffiti artist who is known for his controversial statements. Napalm has been used as the gene...

Modern Art 2011: "Head of Ludwig Schames"

Modern Art 2011: "Head of Ludwig Schames": "Head of Ludwig Schames" is a woodcut done by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1918, 22 7/8 by 10 1/4. Kirchner was a German expressionist painter a...

Modern Art 2011: Entrance to the Harbor

Modern Art 2011: Entrance to the Harbor: This painting is called "Entrance to the Harbor" and it is done by Georges Seurat. It was done in 1888 and it is a oil on canvas. The paint...

Modern Art 2011: Observatory Time-The Lovers

Modern Art 2011: Observatory Time-The Lovers: This painting was made by Man Ray in 1936. It is a very famous surrealist image. I think this painting is very interesting and different esp...

Modern Art 2011: The Persistence of Memory

Modern Art 2011: The Persistence of Memory: "The Persistence of Memory" by Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, was created in 1931 and used oil on canvas. Dali sometimes referre...

Modern Art 2011: Animal Destinies

Modern Art 2011: Animal Destinies: Franz Marc (1913), oil on canvas Inspired by the Impressionists, particularly Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Marc began his intensive study of...

Marc Chagall's Exodus: Another Visit to the Harry Ransom Center's King James Bible Exhibition

Marc Chagall's Exodus: Another Visit to the Harry Ransom Center's King James Bible Exhibition

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-bird-the-finger-what-have-you/

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-bird-the-finger-what-have-you/

Bam Margera and Friends at James Oliver Gallery

Bam Margera and Friends at James Oliver Gallery

Fine Art Registry®: Blog: GOTCHA!: Park West Gallery Buyers Contractually Sh...

Fine Art Registry®: Blog: GOTCHA!: Park West Gallery Buyers Contractually Sh...: by Theresa Franks for Fine Art Registry ® "We were using the word 'Investment' more times than a McDonald's employee would say, 'Do you ...

ARCAblog: Richard Ellis, founder of Scotland Yard's Art and ...

ARCAblog: Richard Ellis, founder of Scotland Yard's Art and ...: 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 rec...

Good work of police led to £2m stolen treasure find - Chronicle News - News from @EveningChron

Good work of police led to £2m stolen treasure find - Chronicle News - News from @EveningChron

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Carlo Of Hollywood: Arabian Nights

Carlo Of Hollywood: Arabian Nights

Carlo Of Hollywood: Walk Like an Egyptian

Carlo Of Hollywood: Walk Like an Egyptian

Carlo Of Hollywood: Do the Bop!

Carlo Of Hollywood: Do the Bop!

Museum boss said stolen artefacts recovery was like return of “lost family members” - Crime - Sunderland Echo

Museum boss said stolen artefacts recovery was like return of “lost family members” - Crime - Sunderland Echo

ARCAblog: Irish Artist Michelle Rogers Secures Release of 14...

ARCAblog: Irish Artist Michelle Rogers Secures Release of 14...: Michelle Rogers' Lampuedusa (200 x 300 cm) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Fourteen paintings by Irish artist Michelle Roge...

Priceless Greek artifacts being stolen before watchful eyes - International - Catholic Online

Priceless Greek artifacts being stolen before watchful eyes - International - Catholic Online

Monday, April 16, 2012

Sotheby's Puts Munch Scream On View In London - ArtLyst

Sotheby's Puts Munch Scream On View In London - ArtLyst

Museums President Blames Lax Security For Cezanne Theft - ArtLyst

Museums President Blames Lax Security For Cezanne Theft - ArtLyst

Protecting Burma’s Heritage from Above | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Protecting Burma’s Heritage from Above | The Irrawaddy Magazine

Sotheby's insists Cambodian statue was not stolen

Sotheby's insists Cambodian statue was not stolen

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-brooklyn-blackbird-event-at-fast-ashleys-studios-thank-you/

http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-brooklyn-blackbird-event-at-fast-ashleys-studios-thank-you/

The World's Most Valuable Missing Works of Art - ABC News

The World's Most Valuable Missing Works of Art - ABC News

Sunday, April 15, 2012

ARCAblog: Associated Press: Serbian officials announce recov...

ARCAblog: Associated Press: Serbian officials announce recov...: Degas' Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters/ Bürle by Catherine Sezgin, Editor-in-Chief Serbian officials announced this week that paym...

Saturday, April 14, 2012

fourteenth: A moment

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Illicit Cultural Property: 8 Works Recovered 22 Years After the Theft

Illicit Cultural Property: 8 Works Recovered 22 Years After the Theft: On Saturday Dutch prosecutors said three people had been arrested in connection with a theft which took place in 1987 from the Noortman gal...

Illicit Cultural Property: Renoir Recovered in Venice

Illicit Cultural Property: Renoir Recovered in Venice: This work by Pierre Auguste Renoir, stolen 15 years ago in Rome was recovered in Venice according to AFP .  Not too many details, but these ...

Illicit Cultural Property: Cezanne Recovered in Serbia

Illicit Cultural Property: Cezanne Recovered in Serbia: Boy in the Red Vest , Cezanne There are reports today that one of the works stolen from the Emil Buehrle Collection in Zurich has been r...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Hasan Niyazi ...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: Hasan Niyazi ...: In the current issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Fall 2011, Hasan Niyazi writes on "The Art of Seeing - A Leonardo Case Study": ABSTRACT: ...

ARCAblog: Why do thieves steal paintings by Picasso?

ARCAblog: Why do thieves steal paintings by Picasso?: Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves  and Bust"/Estate of Pablo Picasso by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-chief After intern...

ARCAblog: The Art Newspaper Reports "Balkans targeted in hun...

ARCAblog: The Art Newspaper Reports "Balkans targeted in hun...: Riah Pryor reporting for The Art Newspaper, Balkans targeted in hunt for stolen art, describes the focus on the region by Art Management, a...

ARCAblog: Antiques Trade Gazette Reports that "iPhone Raid" ...

ARCAblog: Antiques Trade Gazette Reports that "iPhone Raid" ...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, Editor-in-Chief Recently art thieves used a presumed iPhone in a robbery in Northern Ireland to select art d...

Friday, April 13, 2012

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Chinese Jade Heist Duo Hit The Big-Time, Mugshots Go Global

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Chinese Jade Heist Duo Hit The Big-Time, Mugshots Go Global

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Chinese Jade Heist Duo Hit The Big-Time, Mugshots Go Global

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Chinese Jade Heist Duo Hit The Big-Time, Mugshots Go Global

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Museum Heist, Police, Prosecutors & Perpetrators Go Dutch

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Durham Museum Heist, Police, Prosecutors & Perpetrators Go Dutch

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Bührle Cezanne Buy Back In Belgrade Serbia

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Bührle Cezanne Buy Back In Belgrade Serbia

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Cezanne, Pink Panthers, Police Chief Pay Off

Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Cezanne, Pink Panthers, Police Chief Pay Off

Federal Court Judge rules that 10th c. Khmer statue remains at Sotheby’s … for now | Saving Antiquities for Everyone

Federal Court Judge rules that 10th c. Khmer statue remains at Sotheby’s … for now | Saving Antiquities for Everyone

ARCAblog: Serbian Police Recover Cézanne's The Boy in the Re...

ARCAblog: Serbian Police Recover Cézanne's The Boy in the Re...: Cézanne's "The Boy in  the Red Waistcoast"/ Foundation E. G.  Bührle Collection by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief U...

$12,000 Hookes memorial bronze sculpture stolen from Thebarton Oval - ABC Adelaide - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

$12,000 Hookes memorial bronze sculpture stolen from Thebarton Oval - ABC Adelaide - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Gored Spanish matador Juan José Padilla makes comeback wearing eye-patch - What's On Ningbo

Gored Spanish matador Juan José Padilla makes comeback wearing eye-patch - What's On Ningbo

Turkey requests return of Samsat Stele from Britain

Turkey requests return of Samsat Stele from Britain

Mobster Linked To Gardner Art Theft Hit With Weapons Charges

Mobster Linked To Gardner Art Theft Hit With Weapons Charges

3 smugglers held with antique idol

3 smugglers held with antique idol

ARCAblog: Stonehill College: "Veteran Art Detectives Discuss...

ARCAblog: Stonehill College: "Veteran Art Detectives Discuss...: Photo: Virginia Curry and Dick Ellis Here's a link to Stonehill College's website and the post about the lecture by former art police in...

ARCAblog: Karl von Habsburg and Dr. Joris Kila Jointly Win 2...

ARCAblog: Karl von Habsburg and Dr. Joris Kila Jointly Win 2...: Joris Kila (right) in Tripoli on 29 September ARCA (the Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is pleased to announce the w...

Monday, April 9, 2012

Kat's Pocketwatch: The Matrix - Philosophical Analogies

Kat's Pocketwatch: The Matrix - Philosophical Analogies: Here is my The Matrix philosophical analogies paper that I got 100% on even though I made some errors. The Matrix - Philosophical Analogi...

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Fine Art Registry®: Blog: Wanna See the FAR® Trial Exhibit that Stomped a Ho...

Fine Art Registry®: Blog: Wanna See the FAR® Trial Exhibit that Stomped a Ho...: by Theresa Franks for Fine Art Registry ® Fine Art Registry is fast approaching its five-year anniversary of its first report on the pitfa...

Day 99 - RemindersFromGod.net

Day 99 - RemindersFromGod.net

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Foreign Dealer Extradited to USA and Imprisoned

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Foreign Dealer Extradited to USA and Imprisoned

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: St Louis Art Museum "Looking After" Ka Nefer Nefer?

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: St Louis Art Museum "Looking After" Ka Nefer Nefer?

St. Louis Art Museum | Saving Antiquities for Everyone

St. Louis Art Museum | Saving Antiquities for Everyone

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: The Whitney's "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of th...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: The Whitney's "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of th...: Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is not exactly a schlockmeister -- though some of his paintings do look like cheap hotel art – but the retrospe...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Renaissance Portraits, de Kooning, and Smarty-Pant...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Renaissance Portraits, de Kooning, and Smarty-Pant...: The hot shows in New York as a cold winter approaches: De Kooning: A Retrospective , MoMA, opening September 18 The biggest show of the ...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Museum Blockbuster-Show Sponsorships Go Begging Wh...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Museum Blockbuster-Show Sponsorships Go Begging Wh...: Painting by Antonella da Messina, to be shown in the Met's "Renaissance Portrait" exhibition The Metropolitan Museum’s next sure thing i...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Exclusive First Look at What the Met Museum Has Pl...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Exclusive First Look at What the Met Museum Has Pl...: Matisse, "The Blue Nude," to be shown in "The Steins Collect" The Metropolitan Museum hasn’t released information about its upcoming sho...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Taking Stock at Year-End: The Google Search

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Taking Stock at Year-End: The Google Search: Richard Prince (left) and Larry Gagosian As some of you have no doubt noticed, thanks to you my articles published here and elsewhere fre...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Italy Caves on Restitution, Defaults After U.S. Se...

Laura Gilbert__ Art Unwashed: Italy Caves on Restitution, Defaults After U.S. Se...: "Christ Bearing the Cross Dragged by a Rascal" by Girolamo de' Romano ("Romanino") A federal court in Florida last w...

Illicit Cultural Property: Report that Federal Agents will seize Khmer Statue...

Illicit Cultural Property: Report that Federal Agents will seize Khmer Statue...: It looks like the attention drawn to Sotheby's auction of this Koh Ker statue will result in Federal seizure of the statue: Federal age...

ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabinieri TPC ...

ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabinieri TPC ...: Guido Reni's Judith and Holofernes by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog editor Earlier this month, the Carabinieri's del Reparto Operativo...

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...: by Dr. Saskia Hufnagel The ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Austra...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...: Lucas Cranach the Elder's diptych "Adam" and "Eve"   at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California March 27 Maria Dinzeo reported ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...: Warhol Heinz 57 box (FBI) A press release from the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced " Former Car...

ARCAblog: Senate Bill 2212: Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisd...

ARCAblog: Senate Bill 2212: Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisd...: by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA blog Editor-in-Chief The proposed Senate Bill S. 2212, the Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional, is the bi...

ARCAblog: Palmyra and other Syrian Cultural Heritage at Risk...

ARCAblog: Palmyra and other Syrian Cultural Heritage at Risk...: by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Since early March, archaeologists, government officials and Syrian expatriates have b...

Saturday, April 7, 2012

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: WATCHMAKER ANALOGY

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: WATCHMAKER ANALOGY: The Watchmaker argument The watchmaker analogy consists of the comparison of some natural phenomenon to a  watch . Typically, the analog...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...studiosouthcoast.blogspot

ARCAblog: Crackdown on Culture Crime: Italy’s Proud Carabini...

ARCAblog: Crackdown on Culture Crime: Italy’s Proud Carabini...: by Judith Harris ROME –The message: it works! Italy’s campaign to crack down on thefts of its treasures of art and archaeology has borne f...

ARCAblog: Blood Antiques

ARCAblog: Blood Antiques: Recently, a variety of news sources carried stories that made reference to an article in the Fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Art Crime by ...

ARCAblog: ARCA with the National Museum of Crime and Punishm...

ARCAblog: ARCA with the National Museum of Crime and Punishm...: The Dark Arts: Thieves, Forgers, and Tomb Raiders ARCA has partnered with the National Museum of Crime & Punishment to focus on Crimes in t...

ARCAblog: Gardner Museum Art Theft Anniversary Event

ARCAblog: Gardner Museum Art Theft Anniversary Event: On Thursday 4 March 2010 , the Gardner Museum hosted the event titled "The Gardner Theft: 20 Years Later." Listen here to Anthony Amore an...

ARCAblog: Twenty Years and Counting: The Isabella Stewart Ga...

ARCAblog: Twenty Years and Counting: The Isabella Stewart Ga...: The following is a review of IFAR's 15 March 2010 conference on the 20th anniversary of the Gardner theft written by Johanna Devlin of ARCA'...

ARCAblog: Forgeries: as seen on TV!

ARCAblog: Forgeries: as seen on TV!: Thursday, 8 April 2010 - ARCA's Business and Admissions Director, Mark Durney, was featured in Canada's National Post . The article, "Forger...

ARCAblog: Time Magazine on the Paris Heist

ARCAblog: Time Magazine on the Paris Heist: ARCA commentary was featured in a variety of publications and news programs on the recent Paris art theft. These include the following: A...

ARCAblog: More ARCA Reps on the Paris Art Theft

ARCAblog: More ARCA Reps on the Paris Art Theft: Anthony Amore, Security Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=alqtHCgcDqvg ...

ARCAblog: ARCA's Colette Marvin at the Scene of the Crime at...

ARCAblog: ARCA's Colette Marvin at the Scene of the Crime at...: Recently, ARCA's Colette Marvin, Director of Public and Institutional Relations, visited the scene of the crime while on business in Paris....

ARCAblog: Value of public art in vandalism cases an unclear ...

ARCAblog: Value of public art in vandalism cases an unclear ...: ARCA's Business Director, Mark Durney, was quoted in the Southeast Missourian 's article "Value of public art in vandalism cases an unclear...

ARCAblog: BBC Radio on The Carabinieri Art Squad

ARCAblog: BBC Radio on The Carabinieri Art Squad: On BBC Radio Four, w riter and historian Alex Butterworth travels to Rome to meet the Carabinieri squad in charge of protecting Italy's pric...

ARCAblog: “Stealing Caravaggio: The Odessa File”

ARCAblog: “Stealing Caravaggio: The Odessa File”: On Tuesday, June 28, the interior minister of Ukraine announced the recovery of a painting by Caravaggio that had been stolen on the night...

ARCAblog: Theft of a Van Gogh in Cairo

ARCAblog: Theft of a Van Gogh in Cairo: "The Poppy Flowers" by Vincent Van Gogh "[Y]ou've got two prime examples of people being indifferent to the need to protect their paintin...

ARCAblog: ARCA featured in La Repubblica

ARCAblog: ARCA featured in La Repubblica: ARCA was featured in an article in Italy's leading national newspaper, La Repubblica, on 23 August 2010. The article mentioned some of the ...

ARCAblog: More on the Security Breakdown in Cairo

ARCAblog: More on the Security Breakdown in Cairo: The stolen work, "Poppy Flowers"  A week ago today the 1887 work Poppy Flowers , by Vincent van Gogh was stolen from a Cairo museum.  Had...

ARCAblog: Two Forfeited Works Returned to Brazil

ARCAblog: Two Forfeited Works Returned to Brazil: "Modern Painting with Yellow Interweave", Roy Lichtenstein Art crime does not just include the theft of works of art or the looting of a...

ARCAblog: Cairo van Gogh Theft an Inside Job?

ARCAblog: Cairo van Gogh Theft an Inside Job?: The still-missing "Poppy Flowers", by Vincent van Gogh An Egyptian minister said Sunday that an employee working at the Cairo museum like...

ARCAblog: The Norton Simon Museum’s Adam and Eve Part I

ARCAblog: The Norton Simon Museum’s Adam and Eve Part I: By Catherine Schofield Sezgin First of a two part series While his close friend Martin Luther “often preached about the fall of man and i...

ARCAblog: Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter R...

ARCAblog: Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter R...: By Catherine Sezgin During World War II in Nazi-occupied Paris, more than 20,000 art objects were systematically looted from over 200 Jewi...

ARCAblog: The Norton Simon Museum’s Adam and Eve Part II

ARCAblog: The Norton Simon Museum’s Adam and Eve Part II: The following is part two of an examination of the Norton Simon Museum's Adam and Eve by Catherine Sezgin. The first installment can be foun...

ARCAblog: Courbet Painting Stolen from Swansea Still Missing...

ARCAblog: Courbet Painting Stolen from Swansea Still Missing...: By Catherine Schofield Sezgin

October 24th is the 53rd anniversary of the theft of a Courbet seascape stolen from an art gallery in Swa...

ARCAblog: Setting the Price Point for Stolen Art

ARCAblog: Setting the Price Point for Stolen Art: Noah Charney was interviewed by Kai Ryssdal of Marketplace yesterday.  Charney argues that the majority of art theft after World War II can...

ARCAblog: Giacomo Medici's Antiquities Crime Ring Still a Pr...

ARCAblog: Giacomo Medici's Antiquities Crime Ring Still a Pr...: Bonhams Auction house in London sold two antiquities that had been looted by the organized crime ring run by the infamous, imprisoned Giaco...

ARCAblog: Giacomo Medici's Antiquities Crime Ring Still a Pr...

ARCAblog: Giacomo Medici's Antiquities Crime Ring Still a Pr...: Bonhams Auction house in London sold two antiquities that had been looted by the organized crime ring run by the infamous, imprisoned Giaco...

ARCAblog: Revisiting the Cultural Plunder Database

ARCAblog: Revisiting the Cultural Plunder Database: Biche more, Gustave Courbet, Musée d'Orsay, Paris Revisiting the “Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Richsleiter Rosenberg: Database of ...

ARCAblog: Freeze of BBC License Fee Continues Dream of Art T...

ARCAblog: Freeze of BBC License Fee Continues Dream of Art T...: The only successful theft from London’s National Gallery took place on 21 August 1961, when a brazen thief stole Goya’s Portrait of the Duk...

ARCAblog: German Forgers May Have Used Catalogs of Jewish Ar...

ARCAblog: German Forgers May Have Used Catalogs of Jewish Ar...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin German forgers may have used the records of a long-dead Jewish art dealer as provenance for as many as 35 se...

ARCAblog: ARCA Lecturer Richard Ellis weighs in on recovery ...

ARCAblog: ARCA Lecturer Richard Ellis weighs in on recovery ...: by Catherine Schofield Sezgin Swedish police recovered three paintings that had not been reported stolen from the Malmö Art Museum last m...

ARCAblog: Thieves in Madrid Steal 28 Artworks, including Pic...

ARCAblog: Thieves in Madrid Steal 28 Artworks, including Pic...: See the link above for a new article by ARCA president Noah Charney, on last week's theft of 28 artworks from a truck parked in a warehouse...

ARCAblog: Spot the Fake: ARCA on CNN

ARCAblog: Spot the Fake: ARCA on CNN: An excellent article on forgeries was recently published by Laura Allsop of CNN International. The article mentions the ARCA Masters Progra...

ARCAblog: Exclusive Update on the Madrid Picasso Theft

ARCAblog: Exclusive Update on the Madrid Picasso Theft: On 29 November 2010, thieves stole a truck which was carrying what sources claimed was 28 artworks by the likes of Picasso, Chillida, Tapies...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011 Features Synop...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011 Features Synop...: The Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime includes a Synopsis of ARCA's Third International Art Crime Conference in Amelia, Umbria,...

ARCAblog: UNESCO Warns Mali's Cultural Heritage Sites Endang...

ARCAblog: UNESCO Warns Mali's Cultural Heritage Sites Endang...: Old Towns of Djenné (UNESCO) On April 2, UNESCO 's Director-General Irina Bokova "voiced concern about the risk posed by fighting pos...

Six-foot copper statue stolen in Ontario County | www.WHEC.com

Six-foot copper statue stolen in Ontario County | www.WHEC.com

Courthouse News Service

Courthouse News Service

Picasso, Dali among Works in Baterbys Auction that Benefits Aids Awareness | WorthPoint

Picasso, Dali among Works in Baterbys Auction that Benefits Aids Awareness | WorthPoint

Original Artwork by Florida’s ‘Highwaymen’ to Star in Baterbys Auction | WorthPoint

Original Artwork by Florida’s ‘Highwaymen’ to Star in Baterbys Auction | WorthPoint

Wide Array of Self-Taught Folk Art to Cross the Block at Spring Masterpiece Sale | WorthPoint

Wide Array of Self-Taught Folk Art to Cross the Block at Spring Masterpiece Sale | WorthPoint

Friday, April 6, 2012

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...

ARCAblog: Syrian Arab News Agency Reports Claims by Director...

ARCAblog: Syrian Arab News Agency Reports Claims by Director...: "The oasis where the Temple of Bel stands"/ Istanbul Archaeological Museum On Sunday, April 1, SANA, the Syrian Arab News Agency, rep...

ARCAblog: Unsolved Art Theft: Brooklyn Art Museum, 1933

ARCAblog: Unsolved Art Theft: Brooklyn Art Museum, 1933: Walking along the Washington Ave. side of the Brooklyn Art Museum at about 3 a.m. on April 30, 1933 , one would have seen quite a spectacle:...

ARCAblog: Warhols Likely Stolen for Reward Money

ARCAblog: Warhols Likely Stolen for Reward Money: On the night of September 2 a multi-million dollar collection of prints by Andy Warhol, from his so-called “Athlete’s Series,” were stolen f...

ARCAblog: Rewarding Art Theft

ARCAblog: Rewarding Art Theft: In previous posts , I have discussed at length the issues associated with paying ransoms for the safe return of stolen works of art. In ligh...

ARCAblog: Investigating Art and Cultural Objects Theft: How ...

ARCAblog: Investigating Art and Cultural Objects Theft: How ...: ARCA and The Henry Lee Institute Team Up on the Forensics of Art Theft Investigating Art and Cultural Objects Theft: How the History of Ar...

ARCAblog: Art crime captures audience

ARCAblog: Art crime captures audience: Amy Lee of the Yale Daily News has contributed a piece covering ARCA founder Noah Charney's recent lecture at the Yale University Art Gall...

ARCAblog: Rave Review of "Art and Crime"

ARCAblog: Rave Review of "Art and Crime": "Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World" is the first book edited by ARCA. It contains a wide variety of essays by world-ren...

ARCAblog: US Justice Department & Central Bureau of Interpol...

ARCAblog: US Justice Department & Central Bureau of Interpol...: Statistics on art crime are unfortunately few and generally inaccurate. The reasons for this are detailed in ARCA's book, Art & Crime, and c...

ARCAblog: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations Provided Distractio...

ARCAblog: St. Patrick's Day Celebrations Provided Distractio...: Rembrandt's The Storm on the  Sea of Galilee is his only seascape. by Catherine Sezgin, ARCABlog Editor The Boston Globe highlig...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...

ARCAblog: The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2011: The Daumier R...: In the Fall 2011 issue of The Journal of Art Crime , Lilian and Dieter Noack of the Daumier Register announced that they had pinned down ...

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Art, a Spontaneous Experiment. ( Todays doodle by Schiros ): Rough start

Art, a Spontaneous Experiment. ( Todays doodle by Schiros ): Rough start: Today's painting: "Urban Statues"  Thought I would share my latest painting, start to finish.  I have been working more and more with pa...

Communications: Pablo Picasso and cubism

Communications: Pablo Picasso and cubism: Picasso began drawing in a new revolutionary way. He began playing with the spaces in each of his drawings in a new geometrical way. This ne...

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...

ARCAblog: Workshop in Australia: Contemporary Perspectives o...: by Dr. Saskia Hufnagel The ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Austra...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...

ARCAblog: Courthouse News Service Reports "California Law on...: Lucas Cranach the Elder's diptych "Adam" and "Eve"   at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California March 27 Maria Dinzeo reported ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...

ARCAblog: FBI Reports 10 Year Sentence for Former Caretaker ...: Warhol Heinz 57 box (FBI) A press release from the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced " Former Car...

ARCAblog: Spain reports recovery of two first-century Roman ...

ARCAblog: Spain reports recovery of two first-century Roman ...: The Roman bronzes recovered in Spain were about 5 feet tall. (Photo via The Archaeology News Network ) Courtesy of  Museum Security ...

ARCAblog: ARCA Awarded Stuttgart Detective Ernst Schöeller 2...

ARCAblog: ARCA Awarded Stuttgart Detective Ernst Schöeller 2...: Painting in the style of Max Ernst ARCA's Board of Trustees has awarded Ernst Schöeller this year's Art Policing and Recovery award i...

Monday, April 2, 2012

ARCAblog: Art Theft: Does punishment really have a deterrenc...

ARCAblog: Art Theft: Does punishment really have a deterrenc...: Earlier this month , in my post "Art Crime and Punishment" I discussed the need to establish punishment for committing various art crimes a...

ARCAblog: The Gardner Heist: An Interview with Author Ulrich...

ARCAblog: The Gardner Heist: An Interview with Author Ulrich...: Nearly twenty years after the largest art theft in history, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum whodunit mystery remains unsolved. Even as t...

ARCAblog: To Trick the Art World

ARCAblog: To Trick the Art World: “Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur” (“The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived”) -S. Franck, Paradoxa , 1542 To ...

STUDIO SOUTH COAST .: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Illicit Cultural Property: Accounts of Looting at ...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Illicit Cultural Property: Accounts of Looting at ...: Illicit Cultural Property: Accounts of Looting at El-Hibeh in Egypt : "Looting is ongoing, there is no protection for the site"  -Carol Red...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heis...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heis...: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, Search Not Close, Myles Away !!

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art ...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art ...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heis... : Stolen Vermeer: Stolen Art Watch, Gardner Art Heist, Search N...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lowry Han...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lowry Han...: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Liverpool Lowry Handlers Jailed, Dey Doo Doe Don't Dey

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Rome Art Cops Strik...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Rome Art Cops Strik...: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Rome Art Cops Strike, Rubens Recovered

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Father & Son Caught...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Father & Son Caught...: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Father & Son Caught With Pink Panthers Italian Guitar Haul

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Sannd Of Time Move On As NZ Art Thief...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Sannd Of Time Move On As NZ Art Thief...: Art Hostage: Sannd Of Time Move On As NZ Art Thief Released From Jail

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Greek Picasso Stole...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Greek Picasso Stole...: Art Hostage: Stolen Art Watch, Greek Picasso Stolen In Athens Museum Heist

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabi...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabi...: ARCAblog: List of artworks recovered by the Carabinieri TPC ... : Guido Reni's Judith and Holofernes by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog editor...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these painting...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these painting...: ARCAblog: Would you have recognized these paintings as stole... : The Carabinieri TPC listed the images of the paintings recovered earlier t...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Theft Central: Forgeries Steal the Show

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Theft Central: Forgeries Steal the Show: Art Theft Central: Forgeries Steal the Show

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: plundered art: Looted Renoir painting on the Frenc...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: plundered art: Looted Renoir painting on the Frenc...: plundered art: Looted Renoir painting on the French Riviera : SS Officer Hermann Brandl, also known as the head of the infamous black market...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Crazed D.C. Art Critic Strikes Museum Again | The ...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Crazed D.C. Art Critic Strikes Museum Again | The ...: Crazed D.C. Art Critic Strikes Museum Again | The Smoking Gun

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Joan's Daily Journal: Pen and Ink

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Joan's Daily Journal: Pen and Ink: Joan's Daily Journal: Pen and Ink : Pen and ink studies, using my Noodles Ahab pen a simple line drawing.  The second, using Kuretake pen wi...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Inspired Life: Mississippi John Hurt as Picass...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Art Inspired Life: Mississippi John Hurt as Picass...: Art Inspired Life: Mississippi John Hurt as Picasso's "The Old Guitar... : You can watch this painting unfold as I add new videos to this bl...

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SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influenc...: SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Pic... : ineedartandcoffee: Influences: A Photograph of Picass...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Illicit Cultural Property: Fake and Stolen Dalis S...

SOUTH COAST WATCH CO.: Illicit Cultural Property: Fake and Stolen Dalis S...: Illicit Cultural Property: Fake and Stolen Dalis Seized : From the BBC : Spanish police say they have confiscated dozens of suspected fak...