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Book Review

Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas by Howard J. Trienens [REVIEW]

Posted on 13 September 2020

Art restitution case that was never made

Paper Review

Discerning Sources of Supply within the Human Remains Trade via Patterns of Visual Dissimilarity & Computer Vision, by Graham et al.

Posted on 9 September 2020

Where do skulls sold online come from?

News

Culture crime news 31 August–6 September 2020

Posted on 8 September 2020

Hot this week: Mycenae NOT destroyed

Book Review

Art Forgery: The Case of the Lady of Elche by John F. Moffitt [REVIEW]

Posted on 5 September 2020

I’m not sure how the author made this case boring, but yawn

Opportunities

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 September 2020

Posted on 3 September 2020

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, etc.

News

Culture crime news 24–30 August 2020

Posted on 31 August 2020

Hot this week: Museums in a changing world

Book Review

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis [Review]

Posted on 29 August 2020

A controversial painting and everything weird in the art market

Opportunities

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 27 August 2020

Posted on 27 August 2020

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, etc

News

Culture crime news 10–23 August 2020

Posted on 24 August 2020

Hot this week: The loss of Paolo Ferri

Book Review

Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden [Review]

Posted on 22 August 2020

Essential background to the scandals that plague the Museum of the Bible

Opportunities

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 August 2020

Posted on 17 August 2020

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, etc

Book Review

Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts by John Barelli [Review]

Posted on 15 August 2020

Inside view of art crime at the Met from the person tasked with preventing it

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