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Book Review

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

Conference Review

UNESCO Round Table: The movement of cultural property in 2016

Posted on 3 April 2016

Trade-heavy and academic-light, but useful talks on the state of illicit antiquities play globally

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.

Book Review

Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel

Posted on 14 March 2016

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

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.

Book Review

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.

Book Review

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.

Book Review

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.

Book Review

The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property by Laurie Rush and Luisa Benedettini Millington

Posted on 7 February 2016

All about the world’s most stylish art cops.

Film Review

Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery by Arne Birkenstock

Posted on 29 January 2016

The Wolfgang Beltracchi film has come to Netflix, but this forger flick feels forced.

Game Review

Famous Art Robberies, a game by Kulturmeister

Posted on 17 January 2016

Fun, reasonably priced card game featuring spectacular real art heists.

Book Review

A Savage Country by Paul Moon

Posted on 11 January 2016

The sale of preserved human heads for the European curio market in context.

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