A culture of impunity on the cultural causalities of war

by Save Art | 6 Jan 2020

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...

Noah Charney, leading expert on art crime and founder of ARCA, will teach at ARCA’s 2020 Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

by Save Art | 3 Jan 2020

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...

Marc Masurovsky returns to Amelia this summer to teach “Provenance Research, Theory and Practice” at ARCA’s Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection

by Save Art | 1 Jan 2020

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...

A History of the Statue of the Victorious Youth – Comparing the Getty’s Timeline with Italy’s

by Edgar Tijhuis | 9 Dec 2018

On December 3, 2018 Lisa Lapin, Vice President of Communications, J. Paul Getty Trust, released a press statement on the decision by Italy’s Court of Cassation on the Legal Ownership of the Victorious Youth.  The museum also issued a timeline which I have elaborated...

A deck swab gives directions, but then there’s the law, even for the King of Clams

by Edgar Tijhuis | 4 Dec 2018

In 2006 Italian “fisherman” Igli Rosato a.k.a Athos Rosato spoke with US journalist Jason Felch about the fateful day in 1964 when the Victorious Youth bronze was fished from the Adriatic.  In that interview Rosato told the journalist that the statue was...

Italy’s Court of Cassation rejects the J. Paul Getty Museum’s appeal against the lower court ruling on the Getty Bronze

by Edgar Tijhuis | 3 Dec 2018

On Monday, Italy’s Cassation Court rejected the J. Paul Getty Museum’s appeal against the lower court ruling in Pesaro, issued by Magistrate Giacomo Gasparini.  That earlier ruling, issued on June 08, 2018, was in favour of the prosecution’s request for seizure...