A controversial painting and everything weird in the art market
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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
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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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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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The Art Industry and U.S. Policies that Undermine Sanctions, U.S. Senate Report [Review]
Posted on 10 August 2020
Judoligarchs! Money is laundered via art and more regulation is needed.
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Auction Review: Christie’s Antiquities, 14–15 May 2002
Posted on 17 February 2020
Join me as a browse an antiquities sale from the past
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Audrey Hepburn, Mexican Antiquities, Cultural Capital (Funny Face 1957)
Posted on 24 September 2017
No 1950s Bohemian Parisian philosophy flat is complete without an ancient Mexican figurine.
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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