Hot this week: Museums in a changing world
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis [Review]
Posted on 29 August 2020
A controversial painting and everything weird in the art market
Art Crime Research Opportunities: 27 August 2020
Posted on 27 August 2020
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, etc
Culture crime news 10–23 August 2020
Posted on 24 August 2020
Hot this week: The loss of Paolo Ferri
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
Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 August 2020
Posted on 17 August 2020
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities in cultural property, art crime research, etc
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
Culture crime news 3–9 August 2020
Posted on 11 August 2020
Hot this week: In depth on art and money laundering
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
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.
It’s legal to set your antiquities collection on fire for a custom porn video
Posted on 9 August 2020
At least in many places. I swear this title has context.
Academics are doing a terrible job of influencing art market policy
Posted on 8 August 2020
It’s our fault when governments use pop media instead of our research