Hot this week: Unrepentant artefact-looting movie stars
Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown
Posted on 9 October 2015
Who was the artisan behind the beloved, beautiful, contested Lewis Chessmen?
Opportunities: 8 October 2015
Posted on 8 October 2015
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
“Does anyone really think that a raised plinth will deter drunk Glaswegians?”
Posted on 8 October 2015
It’s not all illicit antiquities and art crime around here: sometimes it’s traffic cones!
Is looting-to-order “just a myth”? by Samuel Andrew Hardy
Posted on 7 October 2015
“Open-Source analysis of the theft-to-order of cultural property”
Scottish Sphinxes: Neo-antiquities at Culzean Castle
Posted on 5 October 2015
Not every Scottish Grand Tourist returned with the Parthenon in tow.
Culture crime news 28 September–4 October 2015
Posted on 5 October 2015
Hot this week: Lots of ISIS antiquities targeting talk out of the USA
Hitler’s Art Thief by Susan Roland
Posted on 2 October 2015
On Hildebrand Gurlitt, amasser of the now-famous Gurlitt art hoard containing Nazi-looted pieces but largely disappointing.
Opportunities: 1 October 2015
Posted on 1 October 2015
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
Culture crime news 21–27 September 2015
Posted on 28 September 2015
Hot this week: Picasso to France, Chinese and Mexican antiquities from France
Multiple thefts and the defunding of museum protection
Posted on 27 September 2015
A post coin heist visit to the National Museum of Scotland
The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman
Posted on 27 September 2015
This book completely changed how I view the restitution of Nazi-looted art.