#artcrime — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #artcrime, aggregated by home.social.
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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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U.S. Returns Hundreds of Looted Antiquities to Italy
Italy’s Min…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #AlessandroGiuli #alvinbragg #Antiquities #archaeology #ArtCrime #artnet-news #carabinieri #Christie's #Crime #Etruscan #fbi #Greek #Hellenisticperiod #Herculaneum #History #HomelandSecurity #IronAge #law #Lawenforcement #looted #ManhattanDA #memorandumofunderstanding #MinistryofCulture #Politics #repatriation #Roman #RomanForum #TilmanJ.Fertitta #trafficking
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Tourist Damages Florence’s Neptune Fountain in Pre-Wedding Stunt
Italy’s naughty tourists are at it again. This week, officials in Florence revealed that one “young fore…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #ArtCrime #artnet-news #BartolomeoAmmannati #Biancone #Crime #damage #dare #florence #Francescode'Medici #horses #JoannaofAustria #Marble #Medici #Neptune #PalazzoVecchio #PiazzadellaSignoria #prank #sculpture #TOURISM #tourist #tuscany #vandalism #wedding
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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
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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/
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Did you know the Trafficking Culture Encyclopedia houses over 140 fully researched case studies of Antiquities Trafficking from around the world? Have a look: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/all/
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Dos Pilas Steal 17: a mutilated and stolen Maya sculpture that was partially recovered by Guatemalan police in shipment to Manhattan labeled "Marble samples". Part of the sculpture is still missing. NEW CASE STUDY on the Trafficking Culture Encyclopedia: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/dos-pilas-stela-17/ #archaeology #maya #mesoamerica #artcrime #Guatemala #ArtHistory
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Finally: I see reporting that says that the items stolen from the BM are possibly worth "tens of millions of pounds". I find that to be unlikely:
1. Most Roman etc gems on the market are in the few thousand range. Just because a gem is in the BM doesn't mean it is valuable.
2. A piece stolen from a museum has an actual value of zero. NO ONE wants to buy something stolen from a museum. They only have value if the BM is the one selling them.
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Jobs, conferences, and opportunities in art crime research, it's this week's Art Crime Research Opportunities list. Several amazingly cool job opportunities in this one: https://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2023/08/art-crime-research-opportunities-23-august-2023.html
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This isn't me saying the BM acted right (or wrong)...I/we don't know what they did behind the scenes. I'm just not surprised.
I'm not surprised by any of this. I'm not surprised that an employee was able to steal things. I am not surprised by the kind of things that were stolen. I am not surprised if it turns out the museum response was inadequate and under-the-ruggy. It's bad this happened, but nothing about it is surprising to me.
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Each restitution of #art or a #culturalheritage object, while being celebrated, should be placed within the context of artworks held by the same institution that continue, in 2023, to lack clear #provenance.
#ETA #governance #transparency #museum #looting #anquitities #trafficking #artcrime #lootedart #transparency #dataviz #datajournalism
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Perhaps when I write about art history I should include a bit about lost and stolen art. It's fascinating how much goes missing.
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Art Crime, Repatriation, Antiquities Trafficking Book List: A spreadsheet of books about cultural heritage crime, art law, and related things
#ArtCrime #archaeology @artcrime #Repatriation #ArtLaw #Antiquities #Heritage
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One of the most important aspects of Nazi era provenance is also one if the least studied and least talked about: false provenances
It’s a highly sophisticated form of #disinformation.
See:
Restitution and the Challenge of False Provenances https://youtu.be/61n1uZbASDE via
@YouTube
#learning #video #artprovenance #provenanceresearch #lootedart #artcrime #networks #museum #histodon #mastoart #glam #culturalheritage #digitalhumanities #painting #picasso
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This week's Art Crime Research Opportunities list! A collection of learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, antiquities trafficking research, provenance studies, and related things.
Compiled by Meadhbh Ginnane (and to a much lesser extent me).
Also sign up for the email list.
#ArtCrime #ArtLaw #Archaeology #Heritage @artcrime @archaeodons
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#introduction or rather #reintroduction
I'm Matthew! I'm an architect who assists with campaigns for return of the Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) to Greece - but my interest extends to all forms of cultural property disputes & looting of ancient artefacts - plus a fair bit of ancient Greek history too.
I blog at: http://elginism.com/ but not nearly as often as I want to.
#archaeology #artcrime #artlaw #culturalproperty #restitution #ancientgreece #parthenonmarbles #elginmarbles -
Anyone interested in an @artcrime group? Only a few #ArtCrime, #ArtLaw, #HeritageCrime, and #IllicitAntiquities people are here so far, but why not group the group as we group?
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My #introduction. Hi!
I'm Chris, a #writer and ex-#journalist (#JakartaPost, etc) living in a #rainforest in #Indonesia 🇮🇩
Interests: #SoutheastAsia #ghostwriting #truecrime #riskmanagement #justice and #whalehunting, which leads me to toot about #gambling #art #artcrime #antiquities #luxury #travel and #wine
I like #ttrpg 🎲 #scifi 🖖 #space 🌌 #science 🧬 #nature 🌄 #brooklyn 🗽
In progress: my book on tropical crime stories. Please send me #SEAsia #weirdnews #weirdcrime news.
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I'm hoping to connect with other #HeritageCrime or #ArtCrime scholars, perhaps from #archaeology, #anthropology, or #law? I work in rare books and know there aren't many in my manuscript focused community, but I'm shooting my shot for a hashtag that would collect us like my beloved #BookHistodons. Such is the #interdisciplinary life.