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News

Culture crime news 21–27 March 2016

Posted on 28 March 2016

Hot this week: Advancing on Palmyra

Book Review

The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

Posted on 27 March 2016

Tiny Japanese sculptures are silent witness to an art florescence then catastrophe for Jewish families under Nazism.

Opportunities

Opportunities: 24 March 2016

Posted on 24 March 2016

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities

News

Culture crime news 14–20 March 2016

Posted on 21 March 2016

Hot this week: Seizure after seizure at New York’s Asia Art Week

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The US Govt can’t stop seizing looted Asian art this week. Hooray!

Posted on 18 March 2016

New York’s Asia Art Week, usually a depressing festival of pillage, is going a little differently this year.

News

Culture crime news 7–13 March 2016

Posted on 14 March 2016

Hot this week: Major bust of ancient Indian loot at Christie’s. When will auction houses learn to conduct basic checks?

Book Review

Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel

Posted on 14 March 2016

Wine crime. It’s just like art crime: dark and fascinating.

Opportunities

Opportunities: 10 March 2016

Posted on 10 March 2016

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities

News

Culture crime news 29 February–6 March 2016

Posted on 7 March 2016

Hot this week: Museum theft organized crime mass conviction. Heck yeah!

Paper Review

Conflict antiquities and conflicted antiquities by Alice Stevenson

Posted on 7 March 2016

Against the movement of public antiquities into the private art market.

Opportunities

Opportunities: 3 March 2016

Posted on 3 March 2016

Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities

News

Culture crime news 22–28 February 2016

Posted on 29 February 2016

Hot this week: Site guards murdered in Egypt.

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