Save Art | ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art

by Save Art | 2 Nov 2020

30 October 2020 Holocaust Art RestitutionGuelph Treasure HARP The Holocaust Art Restitution Project files an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in the Guelph Treasure case opposing the DOJ’s position that Holocaust takings do not qualify as expropriation...

Virtual restitutions in the age of Coronavirus and Australian bush fires

by Save Art | 5 Jun 2020

National Gallery of Australia Subhash Kapoor Restitutions On 27 November 2017 the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison formally announced that as a result of criminal law proceedings underway in India and the United States against New York art dealer Subhash...

Revisiting the UK’s Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act of 2003

by Save Art | 5 Jun 2020

UK Heritage LawsArrestsSentencing This Friday ARCA reviews one of the few successful cases of prosecution using the UK’s Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Act of 2003. Christopher Cooper was an unemployed, amateur antique dealer in the United Kingdom, who...

Prosecutors file a civil forfeiture complaint for the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet

by Save Art | 23 May 2020

19 MAY 2020 Illicit trafficking Seizure Antiquities Authorities in the United States have filed a civil forfeiture complaint for a 1600 BCE cuneiform tablet featuring a dream sequence from the Epic of Gilgamesh. Acting as the Plaintiff in the case, the US authorities...