#artcrime — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #artcrime, aggregated by home.social.
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Paris prosecutors seek trial for Giuliano Ruffini over allegedly forged Old Master paintings https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/02/paris-prosecutors-seek-trial-for-giuliano-ruffini-over-allegedly-forged-old-master-paintings?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Artcrime #GiulianoRuffini
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Spate of museum heists in Europe highlights ‘changing tactics’ of crime gangs.
High-value artefacts have been stolen from regional museums in Italy and France in recent weeks.
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All-Night Art Heist in Italy Suspected to Be ‘Some Sort of Revenge’.
About 30 artworks belonging to Lilli Petroli owner Mauro Lilli were stolen in the unusual heist, including bas-reliefs attributed to Pablo Picasso, a bronze ballerina sculpture by Giacomo Manzù, paintings by Bruno d’Arcevia of the Italian Manner movement, and pieces by sculptor Mario Moretto.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/was-unusual-all-night-italian-heist-a-work-of-revenge-1234794571/ #globalmuseum #artcrime #art -
The Trade in Looted Antiquities Endures for One Reason: Demand
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/matt-campbell-cambodia-looted-antiquities-2779870
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882608
#HackerNews #lootedantiquities #artcrime #antiquities #demand #culturalheritage #illicittrade
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Former director of Mariupol museum suspected of handing over stolen paintings to Russian occupation authorities.
The former director of Mariupol's local history museum has been notified in absentia of suspicion for transferring stolen paintings to Russian occupation authorities
https://kyivindependent.com/former-director-of-mariupol-museum-suspected-of-providing-paintings-to-russian-occupation-authorities/ #globalmuseum #museums #Ukraine #artcrime -
The Carlswick Affair: Lost masterpieces and buried truths "When the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried…" Sale: $11.99 to $0.99 by SL Beaumont Rating: 4.3/5 (944 Reviews) #mystery #historical #thriller #crime #romance #booksky #books #youngadult #suspense #artcrime
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Wenn Ihr Euch recht gründlich über den #Louvre Raub informieren wollt, ist das ein guter Text:
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewel-heist-at-musee-du-louvre.html?m=1
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Polish authorities have seized several works, including pieces by Damien Hirst and the anonymous street artist Banksy, stolen from the small city of Przemyśl nearly three years ago as they were being shipped from war-torn Ukraine to Switzerland.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/polish-authorities-recover-stolen-banksy-damien-hirst-2589251 #art #artcrime
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Looted Etruscan treasures seized after ‘tomb raiders’ post works online https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/21/looted-etruscan-treasures-seized-after-tomb-raiders-post-works-online?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Artcrime #Lootedart
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Man found guilty of stealing ¥10.4 million tea bowl from Tokyo exhibition
The golden tea bowl in question was displayed in a hexagonal acrylic box, unprotected by alarms or locks.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/15/japan/crime-legal/tea-bowl-theft-guilty-verdict/ #artcrime #exhibitions #Japan
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US authorities return 1,440 antiquities worth $10m to India, including items linked to Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener
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Four Brussels art dealers convicted for selling false artwork for thousands of euros.
Four art dealers were convicted of forgery and use of false certificates of authenticity, fraudulent work, deceptive commercial practices and fraud by the French-speaking Court of First Instance in Brussels; they received suspended prison sentences and fines of up to €40,000
https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/1217104/four-brussels-art-dealers-convicted-for-selling-false-artwork-for-thousands-of-euros #art #artcrime #fakes
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Today's MUST READ Open Access article: "Human–Object Hybrid in Our Lives and Crime". Diana Berzina explores how a metal detectorist searching illegally for antiquities is made up of two components: the person and the tool. The crime can't happen until a hybrid is formed. https://www-tandfonline-com.mu.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/01639625.2024.2376862 #archaeology #criminology #artcrime #antiquities
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For those of you who like that sort of thing, I just put a bunch of papers by Neil Brodie, primarily about antiquities trafficking in Syria and Iraq, up on the Trafficking Culture website: https://traffickingculture.org/people/neil-brodie/#related_publications
#archaeology #museums #artcrime #iraq #syria #culturalheritage
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Man Receives Two-Year Prison Sentence for Stealing a Banksy Artwork in France
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-sentenced-to-prison-for-stealing-banksy-artwork-france-1234710416/ -
This month's Art and Heritage Crime Research Opportunities List is out! Jobs, calls For papers, events. Read it here and sign up for the email: https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2024/06/art-crime-research-opportunities-22-june-2024.html
#artcrime #arthistory #museums #provenance #criminology #academicjob
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“Court documents from the time show that on July 7, 1969, Gerald Festa, Gerald Donnerstag, and Austin Castiglione — who have since died — tried to steal a coin collection from the Wood residence but triggered a burglar alarm and fled. The same trio returned July 25 and took the painting.
Festa confessed…during Donnerstag's trial in 1975 and said that he and the others were acting under the direction of then-state Sen. Anthony Imperiale, who died in 1999.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/priceless-18th-century-painting-returned-theft-mobsters-54-years-ago-rcna136115 #ArtCrime
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Immer wenn ich krank im Bett rumliege, beschäftige ich mich gerne mit den ethisch & ästhetisch fraglichen Lebensentscheidungen anderer Leute aka #truecrime
#artcrime #podcasts . Da habe ich diesen spannend gemachten #Kunstverbrechen Podcast vom @NDR
entdeckt. Die zwei Folgen über den größten #Kunstraub in der #DDR sowie die vielen ungeklärten Fragen dazu empfehle ich besonders. ABSOLUT WILD. -
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Criminals asking for ransoms on stolen artworks are on the rise | Top art experts weigh in on how to protect pieces from theft https://www.tatler.com/article/stolen-artworks-ransom #art #crime #artcrime
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But academics who criticise this get accused of not wanting to stop antiquities trafficking or whatever. No...they want to pay their rent. Decades of well funded anti antiquities trafficking initiatives that rest on free academic work all fail. Over and over. It's a cycle. It's on my anti trafficking initiative bingo card. Again, again, not quite what is being alleged in the linked article, but it's the wider context. #academia #archaeology #ArtCrime
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We're supposed to want to spend our nights, holidays, and weekends working for no pay on this. Meanwhile the people coming up with these ideas are paid. I do some of this uncompensated work, but I'm one if the very few people out there who can fold it into my real paid job description. I can't image the policy makers who suggest academics work for free would suggest, say, lawyers or their own staff members work for free. It's so odd. #academia #archaeology #ArtCrime
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Not exactly the case here but one problem is that proposed "solutions" to the antiquities crime problem at the highest levels often depend on unpaid work from academics. It's packaged in different ways (eg fostering "engagement") , but it is almost always there. We are seen as free labour. Pointing out that we academics have no spare time, cannot work for free, have to teach to feed our children go down like a lead balloon. #academia #archaeology #ArtCrime
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An interesting morning contemplating credit for academic participation in criminal investigations into art and antiquities crime. It is an incredibly complicated topic. I'd be interested in discussion on this topic generally as long as the focus is not personal to anyone in this article: everyone has the right to want recognition for their work and we should all respect that. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/26/antiquities-trafficking-unit-archaeologist-christos-tsirogiannis #academia #archaeology #ArtCrime
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Naranjo Stela 30: This stolen Maya sculpture was seized by US Authorities when a crate carrying it broke open in the port of Houston. NEW CASE STUDY: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/naranjo-stela-30/
Photo: before and after trafficking. The sculpture was mutilated and broken into pieces to aid in smuggling.
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"...Mallqui warns them that all the mummies are in danger of disappearing, but that they, the children could prevent this. This is how they start on a trip where they visit Cusco, in the time of the Incas, and to meet the Lord of Sipán, an important Moche leader on the north coast of Peru, and, just maybe to save the Mummies!"
yesss #archaeology #artcrime
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"The Dorak Affair": the 56-year-old Antiquities true crime book that you won't be able to put down. Trust me, buy this book on the cheap and settle in for a good read. A no spoilers review: https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2020/10/the-dorak-affair-by-kenneth-pearson-patricia-connor-review.html
Thanks @joeroe for reminding me of it!
#archaeology #artcrime #heritage #turkey #bookreview #histodons
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Archaeologists: do you know of an antiquities looting/trafficking case that belongs in the Trafficking Culture Encyclopedia? A case from your region that should be up with the other 150+ cases on the site? Let me know! The site skews heavily toward Latin America because *I* skew toward Latin America. The Trafficking Culture site is well used by scholars, students, and others: I want good case study representation on there. See: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/all/