2020-01-06 | Uncategorized
Twice in the span of only 24 hours, the current president of the United States has implied that in the event of retaliation against the killing in Baghdad of General Qassem Soleimani, the cultural sites of Iran would be fair game as military targets. Please read...
2020-01-03 | Uncategorized
By Edgar Tijhuis This year, the ARCA Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection will be held from May 28 through August 12, 2020 in the beautiful heart of Umbria in Amelia, Italy. In the months leading up to the start of the program, this...
2020-01-01 | Uncategorized
This year, ARCA and the US-based Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) will again host a standalone course joined to the Amelia conference titled “Provenance and the Challenges of Recovering Looted Assets” taught by Marc Masurovsky, co-founder of HARP, and former...
2018-11-18 | Uncategorized
On October 16, 2012 Dutch police confirmed that seven paintings had been stolen, shortly after 3 a.m. local time, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. The paintings which were taken, Pablo Picasso’s Tete d’Arlequin, Henri Matisse’s La Liseuse en...
2018-08-15 | Uncategorized
In a tale that began as a follow up to a funding initiative, I was scheduled to be in the Netherlands this past March to meet with folks at Maastricht University who ARCA was collaborating with on an EU funded Horizon 2020 grant proposal designed to address the...
2018-07-29 | Uncategorized
As the transnational crime investigation Operation Demetra proceeds into the alleged trafficking of archaeological finds, Italian news reports have begun publishing the names of the 41 individuals currently listed in the obgoing investigation. Some of these...
2018-07-26 | Uncategorized
On Monday, 23 July 2018 Matthew Bogdanos, Senior Trial Counsel in the Office of New York County District through Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., submitted an Application for Turnover in support of an order pursuant to N.Y. Penal Law §450.10 (Consol. 2017) and N.Y....
2018-07-26 | Uncategorized
A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered the plundered bas-relief from the city of Persepolis, which dates from the 5th Century B.C.E., must be returned to Iran as the country from which authorities say it was stolen more than 80 years ago. To read the rest of this...
2018-07-22 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday the Berlin public prosecutor’s office and the state criminal police provisionally seized 77 properties, including apartments, houses and land belonging to members of the “Lebanese” Kurdish extended family “Remmo” worth an...
2018-07-21 | Uncategorized
In 2008, following a ten-year investigation coordinated by Prosecutor General Augustin Lazăr of Romania, a number of individuals were charged in connection with illegal excavations carried out in the dense forests of the Orăştie Mountains in the vicinity of the...
