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Book Review

Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar [Review]

Posted on 11 August 2020

Strange story of a fake artefact and the people who needed it to be real

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Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith

Posted on 4 August 2017

“Enclosed were photos of two Fijian iguanas, preserve in alcohol”

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Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler by Jessica Speart

Posted on 14 May 2017

“I am the Indiana Jones of insects”

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The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez by Laura Cumming

Posted on 2 November 2016

Is it real, is it fake, is it stolen, and where IS it? A vanishing painting and an interesting story.

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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

Posted on 20 May 2016

A female Dutch Golden Age painter, a 1950s art forgery and theft, what I want in a novel.

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Hitler’s Art Dealer (Hitlers Kunsthändler) by Meike Hoffmann and Nicola Kuhn

Posted on 13 May 2016

A new biography of the now-infamous art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt

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A Galileo Forgery edited by Horst Bredekamp et al.

Posted on 17 April 2016

A group of book scholars evaluate the forgery that fooled them all

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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.

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Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel

Posted on 14 March 2016

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

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The Lives of Colonial Objects by Cooper, Paterson, & Wanhalla (eds)

Posted on 29 February 2016

A beautiful collection of vignettes about the meanings of material things from New Zealand’s past.

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Bone Rooms by Samuel J. Redman

Posted on 22 February 2016

The tense and fascinating history of the collection of human remains at American museums.

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A Fool and His Monet by Sandra Orchard

Posted on 15 February 2016

A fun first novel in a new mystery series featuring an FBI Art Crime Team agent.

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