New York’s Asia Art Week, usually a depressing festival of pillage, is going a little differently this year.
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?
Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel
Posted on 14 March 2016
Wine crime. It’s just like art crime: dark and fascinating.
Opportunities: 10 March 2016
Posted on 10 March 2016
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
Culture crime news 29 February–6 March 2016
Posted on 7 March 2016
Hot this week: Museum theft organized crime mass conviction. Heck yeah!
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: 3 March 2016
Posted on 3 March 2016
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
Culture crime news 22–28 February 2016
Posted on 29 February 2016
Hot this week: Site guards murdered in Egypt.
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.
Illicit antiquities chic? Faux decapitated Buddha heads as decor
Posted on 26 February 2016
When did mutilated statues become pop normality?
Opportunities: 25 February 2016
Posted on 25 February 2016
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
Culture crime news 16–21 February 2016
Posted on 22 February 2016
Hot this week: Serious provenance problems with swaths of the National Gallery of Australia collection