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2024 (7)

06 Sep 2024 Irregularly regulated collecting markets: antiquities, fossils, and wildlife (Post)
07 Aug 2024 We don’t know what we don’t know about Antiquities Crime (Post)
22 Jun 2024 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 June 2024 (Opportunities)
13 May 2024 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 13 May 2024 (Opportunities)
12 Apr 2024 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 12 April 2024 (Opportunities)
28 Feb 2024 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 February 2024 (Opportunities)
25 Jan 2024 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 25 January 2024 (Opportunities)

2023 (27)

23 Nov 2023 Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime (Post)
23 Nov 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 23 November 2023 (Opportunities)
14 Sep 2023 The term “Desire Laundering” and some thoughts on “Desire Laundering” and Antiquities (Post)
25 Aug 2023 Peruvian antiquities that were NOT returned (Post)
23 Aug 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 23 August 2023 (Opportunities)
11 Jul 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 11 July 2023 (Opportunities)
06 Jul 2023 JOIN MY TEAM! Two PhD Positions Open NOW with PRICELSSS (News)
03 Jul 2023 The illicit trade in antiquities is NOT the world’s third-largest illicit trade. (News)
30 Jun 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 30 June 2023 (Opportunities)
30 Jun 2023 Inconvenient Heritage. Colonial Collections and Restitution in the Netherlands and Belgium by Jos van Beurden [Review] (Book Review)
19 Jun 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 19 June 2023 (Opportunities)
16 Jun 2023 NEW PAPER: Affective Atmosphere in an Art Fair Jewel Heist (Post)
08 Jun 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 8 June 2023 (Opportunities)
15 May 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 15 May 2023 (Opportunities)
04 Apr 2023 New Book: ‘El Expolio de Bienes Culturales’ (Post)
30 Mar 2023 A Visit with Trinity the T. rex (Post)
16 Mar 2023 Introducing the PRICELESS project! (Post)
08 Mar 2023 Please note, a post has been removed from this blog. (Post)
27 Feb 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 27 February 2023 (Opportunities)
16 Feb 2023 Art Crime, Repatriation, Antiquities Trafficking Book List (Post)
13 Feb 2023 New Book: Art Crime in Context (Post)
13 Feb 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 13 February 2023 (Opportunities)
06 Feb 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 6 February 2023 (Opportunities)
26 Jan 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 26 January 2023 (Opportunities)
16 Jan 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 16 January 2023 (Opportunities)
12 Jan 2023 Art Crime Research Opportunities 12 January 2023 (Opportunities)
06 Jan 2023 Financing of terrorism and the market for cultural goods (Post)

2022 (40)

24 Nov 2022 Lyon’s Musee des Confluences has just “delayed” the display of T. rex “Ryker” (Post, Uncategorized)
24 Nov 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities 24 November 2022 (Opportunities)
21 Nov 2022 WHOA! Christie’s halted the Shen T. rex sale! (Post)
18 Nov 2022 Dino Desire: Two T.rex for Sale (Post)
10 Nov 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities 10 November 2022 (Opportunities)
27 Oct 2022 The Peer Review Crisis: A Commitment and a Request (Post, Uncategorized)
22 Oct 2022 (Not) Self Plagiarism and Copy+Pasting Core Background Text (Post)
21 Oct 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities 21 October 2022 (Opportunities)
12 Oct 2022 New Paper: Creative compliance, neutralization techniques, and palaeontological ethics (Post, Uncategorized)
11 Oct 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 11 October 2022 (Opportunities)
10 Oct 2022 Same Names, Different Schemes (Post)
24 Sep 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 September 2022 (Opportunities)
20 Sep 2022 Seeking 3 (Remote) Interns for Art and Heritage Crime Research and Communications (Post)
20 Sep 2022 Reviving Culture Crime News? (Post)
19 Sep 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 19 September 2022 (Opportunities)
06 Sep 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 6 September 2022 (Opportunities)
21 Jul 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 21 July 2022 (Opportunities)
01 Jul 2022 ‘Afghan Genizah’ Paper: The ‘Silk Roads Programme’ at Cambridge University’s King’s College should NOT be included (Post)
29 Jun 2022 Yes there was a jewel heist in my city yesterday (Post)
29 Jun 2022 WCO’s Illicit Trade Report for 2021: No confusing charts and graphs (Post)
22 Jun 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 June 2022 (Opportunities)
22 Jun 2022 Call for PhD Proposals in Criminology (Post)
13 Jun 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 13 June 2022 (Opportunities)
13 Jun 2022 “Tribal addiction”? Urgh. The art market can’t give up racist descriptors (Post)
01 Jun 2022 Email Me: Notes on Removing Myself from Twitter (Post)
25 May 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 25 May 2022 (Opportunities)
25 May 2022 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Power of Things: Exploring the Relationships Between Objects and Crime (Post)
20 May 2022 Postdocs and PhD Opportunities with Us (Post)
19 May 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 19 May 2022 (Opportunities)
22 Mar 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 March 2022 (Opportunities)
09 Mar 2022 Lex Rex! Tyrannosaurs in the Courts (Post)
08 Mar 2022 Answers to Questions about Careers in Art and Heritage Crime Research (Post)
02 Mar 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 March 2022 (Opportunities)
22 Feb 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 February 2022 (Opportunities)
10 Feb 2022 Research for the Courts and Intriguing Art Crime Work that can’t be Shared (Post)
09 Feb 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 9 February 2022 (Opportunities)
03 Feb 2022 Accepting PhD Proposals: Maastricht University Faculty of Law (News)
01 Feb 2022 Call for book proposals! “Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market” (Springer) (Post)
01 Feb 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 1 February 2022 (Opportunities)
21 Jan 2022 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 21 January 2022 (Opportunities)

2021 (24)

24 Dec 2021 Doubtful Dürer? The Joy of Art Market Authenticity Controversy (Post)
20 Dec 2021 New Book! “Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World” (Post)
25 Nov 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 25 November 2021 (Opportunities)
10 Nov 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 10 November 2021 (Opportunities)
28 Sep 2021 PHD Opportunity: Antiquities, Fossil, and Wildlife Crime in China: Causes, Contexts, and Policy Responses (News)
23 Sep 2021 Investigative Journalism and Antiquities Trafficking Research (Post)
23 Sep 2021 Protecting a Broken Window: Vandalism and Security at Rural Rock Art Sites (Post)
23 Aug 2021 Culture crime news 16–22 August 2021 (News)
30 Jun 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 30 June 2021 (Opportunities)
01 Jun 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 1 June 2021 (Opportunities)
18 May 2021 I’m an expert and I think there are fakes in the Sotheby’s Precolumbian antiquities sale (Post)
03 May 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 May 2021 (Opportunities)
29 Apr 2021 50% off new book: Real, Recent, or Replica: Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration (Post)
21 Apr 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 21 April 2021 (Opportunities)
07 Apr 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 7 April 2021 (Opportunities)
30 Mar 2021 Culture crime news 22–28 March 2021 (News)
30 Mar 2021 A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far by John Boardman [Review] (Book Review)
23 Mar 2021 Culture crime news 15–21 March 2021 (News)
15 Mar 2021 Endangered heritage and illicit trade [podcast] (Post)
15 Mar 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 15 March 2021 (Opportunities)
09 Mar 2021 Free Book: Opportunities And Challenges Of The Art And Antiques Market Management (Post)
04 Mar 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 4 March 2021 (Opportunities)
24 Feb 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 February 2021 (Opportunities)
17 Jan 2021 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 January 2021 (Opportunities)

2020 (77)

15 Dec 2020 Culture crime news 7–13 December 2020 (News)
10 Dec 2020 PhDs in the Netherlands: accepting proposals again (Post)
09 Dec 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 9 December 2020 (Opportunities)
03 Dec 2020 New Book: Provenance Research Today (with discount code) (Post)
01 Dec 2020 Culture crime news 23–20 November 2020 (News)
24 Nov 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 November 2020 (Opportunities)
19 Nov 2020 Culture crime news 9–17 November 2020 (News)
17 Nov 2020 Volunteers Wanted: Culture Crime News “Fill in the Blanks” Project (Post)
14 Nov 2020 The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase by Nigel Spivey [Review] (Book Review)
10 Nov 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 10 November 2020 (Opportunities)
09 Nov 2020 Culture crime news 2–8 November 2020 (News)
03 Nov 2020 Caravaggio’s Cardsharps on Trial by Richard E. Spear [REVIEW] (Book Review)
03 Nov 2020 Selling Fake Art: Do the Dealers Know? (Post)
02 Nov 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 November 2020 (Opportunities)
27 Oct 2020 The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs (Book Review)
16 Oct 2020 Introducing Police Scotland’s “Operation Wingspan” (News)
14 Oct 2020 The Dorak Affair by Kenneth Pearson & Patricia Connor [REVIEW] (Book Review)
13 Oct 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 13 October 2020 (Opportunities)
06 Oct 2020 Authenticity Studies: International Journal of Archaeology and Art, Call for Papers (Uncategorized)
06 Oct 2020 Random Treasure: Antiques, Auctions and Alchemy by Roger Stewart [REVIEW] (Book Review)
05 Oct 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 5 October 2020 (Opportunities)
29 Sep 2020 No, the WCO report doesn’t show that ‘Business of Smuggling Cultural Property Is Not as Big as People Think’ (Post)
26 Sep 2020 The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore (Book Review)
25 Sep 2020 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS “The Power of Things: Understanding relationships between objects and crime” (Post)
22 Sep 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 September 2020 (Opportunities)
20 Sep 2020 The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell [Review] (Book Review)
14 Sep 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 14 September 2020 (Opportunities)
13 Sep 2020 Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas by Howard J. Trienens [REVIEW] (Book Review)
09 Sep 2020 Discerning Sources of Supply within the Human Remains Trade via Patterns of Visual Dissimilarity & Computer Vision, by Graham et al. (Paper Review)
08 Sep 2020 Culture crime news 31 August–6 September 2020 (News)
05 Sep 2020 Art Forgery: The Case of the Lady of Elche by John F. Moffitt [REVIEW] (Book Review)
03 Sep 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 September 2020 (Opportunities)
31 Aug 2020 Culture crime news 24–30 August 2020 (News)
29 Aug 2020 The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis [Review] (Book Review)
27 Aug 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 27 August 2020 (Opportunities)
24 Aug 2020 Culture crime news 10–23 August 2020 (News)
22 Aug 2020 Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden [Review] (Book Review)
17 Aug 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 August 2020 (Opportunities)
15 Aug 2020 Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts by John Barelli [Review] (Book Review)
11 Aug 2020 Culture crime news 3–9 August 2020 (News)
11 Aug 2020 Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar [Review] (Book Review)
10 Aug 2020 The Art Industry and U.S. Policies that Undermine Sanctions, U.S. Senate Report [Review] (Paper Review, Review)
09 Aug 2020 It’s legal to set your antiquities collection on fire for a custom porn video (Post)
08 Aug 2020 Academics are doing a terrible job of influencing art market policy (Post)
07 Aug 2020 Stolen Maya mask returning to Guatemala from Belgium (Post)
06 Aug 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 6 August 2020 (Opportunities)
31 Jul 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 31 July 2020 (Opportunities)
23 Jul 2020 White Control of Native American Culture can Never be “Responsible Collecting” (Post)
23 Jul 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 23 July 2020 (Opportunities)
06 Jul 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 6 July 2020 (Opportunities)
24 Jun 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 June 2020 (Opportunities)
19 Jun 2020 Questioning the Mirador-Calakmul Basin Maya Security and Conservation Partnership Act (pt 1) (Post)
18 Jun 2020 CALL FOR COMMENTS on the USA/Colombia Cultural Property MOU (Post)
15 Jun 2020 Call for Abstracts: Crime and Art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world. (Uncategorized)
11 Jun 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 11 June 2020 (Opportunities)
05 Jun 2020 Illicit dino feathers and exploiting legal loopholes to study fossils in Myanmar amber (Post)
03 Jun 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 June 2020 (Opportunities)
25 May 2020 Culture crime news 18–24 May 2020 (News)
22 May 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 May 2020 (Opportunities)
19 May 2020 Culture crime news 11–17 May 2020 (News)
17 May 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 May 2020 (Opportunities)
08 May 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 8 May 2020 (Opportunities)
28 Apr 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 April 2020 (Opportunities)
25 Apr 2020 Research at the End of the World (Post)
02 Apr 2020 Road Building and Looting of Maya sites in Southern Campeche, Mexico post-1990 (Post)
16 Mar 2020 Culture crime news 9–16 February 2020 (News)
16 Mar 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 16 March 2020 (Opportunities)
14 Mar 2020 Two Antiquities Trafficking Lectures for your now-Online Class (Post)
11 Mar 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 11 March 2020 (Opportunities)
03 Mar 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 March 2020 (Opportunities)
24 Feb 2020 Culture crime news 17–23 February 2020 (News)
19 Feb 2020 Junior Researcher Wanted! Trafficking Transformations: Objects as Agents in Transnational Criminal Networks’ project (Post)
17 Feb 2020 Auction Review: Christie’s Antiquities, 14–15 May 2002 (Review)
13 Feb 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 13 February 2020 (Opportunities)
10 Feb 2020 Culture crime news 3–9 February 2020 (News)
06 Feb 2020 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 6 February 2020 (Opportunities)
06 Feb 2020 Auction Review: Christie’s Important Tribal Art, 7 Jul 82 (Post)

2019 (30)

28 Dec 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 December 2019 (Opportunities)
11 Dec 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 11 December 2019 (Opportunities)
11 Dec 2019 Sabbatical Opportunity: Senior Advisor, Cultural Heritage Center, U.S. Department of State. (News)
02 Dec 2019 I’m joining the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University (Post)
29 Nov 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 29 November 2019 (Opportunities)
24 Nov 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 November (Opportunities)
09 Nov 2019 Trafficking Transformations Project Teaser (Post)
06 Nov 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 6 November (Opportunities)
06 Nov 2019 New Article: ‘Now that you mention it, museums probably are a target’: museums, terrorism and security in the United Kingdom (News)
31 Oct 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 31 October 2019 (Opportunities)
17 Oct 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 17 October 2019 (Opportunities)
20 Sep 2019 Trafficking Culture: New Directions in Researching the Global Market in Illicit Antiquities (Post)
12 Sep 2019 Maya sculpture pulled from Paris sale, but still not safe (Post)
10 Sep 2019 Looted, mutilated ancient Maya sculpture for sale in Paris (Post)
21 Aug 2019 Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime (Post)
19 Aug 2019 Counterterrorism Security in UK Museums: New Article Out in ‘Studies in Conflict and Terrorism’ (Post)
21 Jul 2019 The Market for Mesoamerica (new book, 50% off!) (Uncategorized)
06 Jul 2019 US/El Salvador Cultural Property MoU: Call for Comments (Uncategorized)
22 Mar 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 March 2019 (Opportunities)
22 Mar 2019 Open letter in support of restricting the import of stolen Chilean antiquities into the US (Post)
22 Mar 2019 Comments Needed on Proposed Cultural Property MoUs between the US and Chile, Jordan (Post)
12 Mar 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 12 March 2019 (Opportunities)
20 Feb 2019 When NOT to work for free while building a career in research and academia (Post)
20 Feb 2019 Culture crime news 4–17 February 2019 (News)
04 Feb 2019 Have your say about the UK’s* Treasure Act (Uncategorized)
01 Feb 2019 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 1 Feb 2019 (Opportunities)
29 Jan 2019 Postdoctoral Research Funding Opportunities: any parallel projects? (Post)
21 Jan 2019 Culture crime news 14–20 January 2019 (News)
16 Jan 2019 Quirky Kiwi Art Crimes (Uncategorized)
13 Jan 2019 Compelled by the Cosmos? Illicit Collection of Meteorites (Post)

2018 (40)

29 Dec 2018 Death and rebirth of expert blogs: on losing to obligation and coming back again? (Post)
28 Dec 2018 “Profoundly Ethical”: the museum myth of the 1970 UNESCO convention (Post)
24 Dec 2018 Culture crime news 17–23 December 2018 (News)
18 Dec 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 18 December 2018 (Opportunities)
18 Dec 2018 Culture crime news 10–16 December 2018 (News)
30 Nov 2018 Working for Free in Academia [cross post, 2015] (Post)
30 Nov 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 30 November 2018 (Opportunities)
19 Nov 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 19 November 2018 (Opportunities)
13 Nov 2018 [VIDEO]Ancient Art and Modern Crime: How Stolen Antiquities End Up In Our Most Respected Museums (Post)
06 Nov 2018 Culture crime news 29 October–4 November 2018 (News)
05 Nov 2018 COME WORK WITH ME: Lecturer, Antiquities Trafficking & Art Crime, University of Glasgow (News)
02 Nov 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 November 2018 (Opportunities)
18 Oct 2018 Art and Heritage Crime Research Opportunities: 18 October 2018 (Opportunities)
07 Oct 2018 Culture crime news 1–7 October 2018 (News)
04 Oct 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 4 October 2018 (Opportunities)
24 Sep 2018 Culture crime news 17–23 September 2018 (News)
22 Sep 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 September 2018 (Opportunities)
18 Sep 2018 Culture crime news 10–16 September 2018 (News)
13 Sep 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 13 September 2018 (Opportunities)
13 Sep 2018 Culture crime news 3–9 September 2018 (News)
03 Aug 2018 MY NEW PROJECT! Trafficking transformations: objects as agents in transnational criminal networks (Post)
02 Aug 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 August 2018 (Opportunities)
19 Jul 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 19 July 2018 (Opportunities)
17 Jul 2018 Don’t ask me to authenticate antiquities for you (unless you’re the police) (News)
17 Jul 2018 Culture crime news 9–15 July 2018 (News)
12 Jul 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 12 July 2018 (Opportunities)
09 Jul 2018 Culture crime news 2–8 July 2018 (News)
08 Jul 2018 Culture Crime News and Stolen Gods updates (Post)
08 Jul 2018 Art Crime Research Opportunities: 8 July 2018 (Opportunities)
02 Jul 2018 Open for Heritage/Art Crime Papers: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology (News)
29 Jun 2018 New Paper: Heritage, Crisis, and Community Crime Prevention in Nepal (Post)
28 Jun 2018 Combatting antiquities trafficking with new technology (Post)
27 Jun 2018 Opportunities: 27 June 2018 (Opportunities)
27 Jun 2018 Conference not to miss: Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, London, 28-29 Jun (Post)
27 Jun 2018 A Twitter Pause and a Blog Rebirth? Anonymous Swiss Collector Revisited (Post)
11 Apr 2018 Culture crime news 26 March– 8 April 2018 (News)
27 Mar 2018 Culture crime news 19–25 March 2018 (News)
24 Mar 2018 Where’s Anonymous Swiss Collector? (Post)
23 Jan 2018 Culture crime news 7-21 January 2018 (News)
08 Jan 2018 Culture crime news 25 December 2017–6 January 2018 (News)

2017 (76)

24 Dec 2017 Culture crime news 12 November–24 December 2017 (News)
11 Dec 2017 Culture crime news 27 November–11 December 2017 (News)
29 Nov 2017 Culture crime news 13–26 November 2017 (News)
13 Nov 2017 Culture crime news 6–12 November 2017 (News)
06 Nov 2017 Culture crime news 30 October–5 November 2017 (News)
30 Oct 2017 Culture crime news 23–29 October 2017 (News)
24 Oct 2017 Culture crime news 16–22 October 2017 (News)
19 Oct 2017 Opportunities: 19 October 2017 (Opportunities)
16 Oct 2017 Culture crime news 9–15 October 2017 (News)
10 Oct 2017 Culture crime news 2–8 October 2017 (News)
05 Oct 2017 Opportunities: 5 October 2017 (Opportunities)
02 Oct 2017 Culture crime news 26 September–1 October 2017 (News)
28 Sep 2017 Opportunities: 28 September 2017 (Opportunities)
25 Sep 2017 Culture crime news 18–25 September 2017 (News)
24 Sep 2017 Audrey Hepburn, Mexican Antiquities, Cultural Capital (Funny Face 1957) (Film Review)
20 Sep 2017 Culture crime news 4–17 September 2017 (News)
04 Sep 2017 Culture crime news 28 August–3 September 2017 (News)
28 Aug 2017 Culture crime news 21–27 August 2017 (News)
21 Aug 2017 Culture crime news 7–20 August 2017 (News)
21 Aug 2017 Research Log, Cape Town, 7-23 August 2017 (Post)
08 Aug 2017 Culture crime news 31 July–6 August 2017 (News)
04 Aug 2017 Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith (Book Review)
31 Jul 2017 We’re hiring! Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow (News)
31 Jul 2017 Culture crime news 24–30 July 2017 (News)
25 Jul 2017 Relaunch: StolenGods.org a database of media articles about threats to sacred art (News)
24 Jul 2017 Art, Crime & Criminals: Free Workshop in Berlin, 7–8 Sept (News)
24 Jul 2017 Culture crime news 17–23 July 2017 (News)
17 Jul 2017 Culture crime news 10–16 July 2017 (News)
16 Jul 2017 Most of the Pre-Columbian artefacts in The Mexican Museum of San Fran are Fake? (News)
10 Jul 2017 Light for Pompeii: Changing the narrative through darkness, light, and sound (Post)
10 Jul 2017 Culture crime news 3–9 July 2017 (News)
06 Jul 2017 Some thoughts on the Hobby Lobby antiquities case (News)
03 Jul 2017 Culture crime news 19 June–2 July 2017 (News)
25 Jun 2017 India v. Pakistan: The Dancing Girl from Mohenjo-daro (Post)
23 Jun 2017 Looted, smuggled, returned antiquities in the National Museum, New Delhi (News, Post)
19 Jun 2017 Culture crime news 12–18 June 2017 (News)
12 Jun 2017 Culture crime news 5–11 June 2017 (News)
05 Jun 2017 Culture crime news 30 May–4 June 2017 (News)
30 May 2017 Culture crime news 22–29 May 2017 (News)
22 May 2017 Culture crime news 15–21 May 2017 (News)
20 May 2017 The bright beauty of Mexican village churches (Post)
15 May 2017 Culture crime news 8–14 May 2017 (News)
14 May 2017 Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World’s Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler by Jessica Speart (Book Review)
08 May 2017 Culture crime news 23 April–7 May 2017 (News)
08 May 2017 UK museum security and management folks: We want to hear from you! (News)
06 May 2017 There for 330 million years: Victorian preservation at Glasgow’s Fossil Grove (Post)
04 May 2017 “Quest for the Lost City”: searching for a lost looted Maya site (Post)
04 May 2017 Opportunities: 4 May 2017 (Opportunities)
27 Apr 2017 Opportunities: 27 April 2017 (Opportunities)
24 Apr 2017 Culture crime news 17–23 April 2017 (News)
20 Apr 2017 Opportunities: 20 April 2017 (Opportunities)
17 Apr 2017 Culture crime news 10–16 April 2017 (News)
14 Apr 2017 The cultural capitalists: Notes on the ongoing reconfiguration of trafficking culture in Asia (Post)
10 Apr 2017 Culture crime news 3–9 April 2017 (News)
04 Apr 2017 Culture crime news 27 March–2 April 2017 (News)
31 Mar 2017 Opportunities: 30 March 2017 (Opportunities)
29 Mar 2017 Culture crime news 20–26 March 2017 (News)
20 Mar 2017 Culture crime news 13–19 March 2017 (News)
16 Mar 2017 Opportunities: 16 March 2017 (Opportunities)
13 Mar 2017 Culture crime news 6–12 March 2017 (News)
09 Mar 2017 Opportunities: 9 March 2017 (Opportunities)
06 Mar 2017 Culture crime news 27 February–05 March 2017 (News)
28 Feb 2017 Work in public or private sector art/heritage industry, law, preservation, policy? Answer 4 student Qs (Post)
27 Feb 2017 Culture crime news 20–26 February 2017 (News)
20 Feb 2017 Culture crime news 13–19 February 2017 (News)
16 Feb 2017 Opportunities: 16 Feb 2017 (Opportunities)
13 Feb 2017 Culture crime news 6–12 February 2017 (News)
06 Feb 2017 (News)
02 Feb 2017 Opportunities: 2 Feb 2017 (Opportunities)
30 Jan 2017 Culture crime news 23–29 January 2017 (News)
28 Jan 2017 Dino tails, fossil smuggling, and the law (Post)
23 Jan 2017 Culture crime news 16–22 January 2017 (News)
19 Jan 2017 Opportunities: 19 Jan 2017 (Opportunities)
16 Jan 2017 Culture crime news 9–15 January 2017 (News)
09 Jan 2017 Culture crime news 2–8 January 2017 (News)
03 Jan 2017 Culture crime news 26 December 2016–1 January 2017 (News)

2016 (132)

27 Dec 2016 Culture crime news 19–25 December 2016 (News)
19 Dec 2016 Culture crime news 12–18 December 2016 (News)
12 Dec 2016 Culture crime news 5–11 December 2016 (News)
05 Dec 2016 Culture crime news 28 November–4 December 2016 (News)
01 Dec 2016 Opportunities: 1 Dec 2016 (Opportunities)
28 Nov 2016 Art Crime Reading List (Post)
28 Nov 2016 Culture crime news 21–27 November 2016 (News)
26 Nov 2016 Opportunities: 27 Nov 2016 (Opportunities)
21 Nov 2016 Culture crime news 14–20 November 2016 (News)
13 Nov 2016 Culture crime news 7–13 November 2016 (News)
07 Nov 2016 Culture crime news 31 October–6 November 2016 (News)
04 Nov 2016 Carnegie/Caledonian PhD Scholarships: have a good project idea? (Post)
02 Nov 2016 The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez by Laura Cumming (Book Review)
02 Nov 2016 UK Govt Calls for Comments on Hague Convention Bill (Post)
31 Oct 2016 Culture crime news 24–30 October 2016 (News)
29 Oct 2016 All Quiet on the Repatriation Front: Nazi-looted Mummy Portraits on the Market (Post)
28 Oct 2016 Looking for a Culture Crime helper (Post)
27 Oct 2016 Opportunities: 27 Oct 2016 (Opportunities)
24 Oct 2016 Culture crime news 17–23 October 2016 (News)
20 Oct 2016 Opportunities: 20 Oct 2016 (Opportunities)
17 Oct 2016 Culture crime news 10–16 October 2016 (News)
16 Oct 2016 Call for papers: “Crimes against Culture: Theft, Destruction, Security, and Protection of Heritage” (Post)
13 Oct 2016 Opportunities: 13 Oct 2016 (Opportunities)
13 Oct 2016 My Art History isn’t ‘Soft’! (Post)
10 Oct 2016 Culture crime news 3–9 October 2016 (News)
03 Oct 2016 Culture crime news 26 September–2 October 2016 (News)
29 Sep 2016 Opportunities: 29 Sept 2016 (Opportunities)
26 Sep 2016 Culture crime news 19–25 September 2016 (News)
22 Sep 2016 Opportunities: 22 Sept 2016 (Opportunities)
19 Sep 2016 Culture crime news 12–18 September 2016 (News)
18 Sep 2016 Open letter in support of restricting the import of stolen Peruvian antiquities into the US (Post)
15 Sep 2016 Opportunities: 15 Sept 2016 (Opportunities)
13 Sep 2016 In New Zealand? Take my Antiquities Trafficking summer course! (Nov-Dec ’16) (Uncategorized)
12 Sep 2016 Culture crime news 5–11 September 2016 (News)
08 Sep 2016 Fourth surviving Maya book or fake? New analysis of the Grolier Codex (Post)
08 Sep 2016 Opportunities: 8 Sept 2016 (Opportunities)
07 Sep 2016 Care about protecting Peruvian antiquities? Comment for the State Department! (Post)
06 Sep 2016 Another step forward for the UK’s Cultural property (Armed Conflicts) Bill today (Post)
05 Sep 2016 The great Doig(e) experiment: authenticity, living artists, and proving where we were as teenagers (Post)
05 Sep 2016 Culture crime news 21 August–4 September 2016 (News)
01 Sep 2016 Opportunities: 1 Sept 2016 (Opportunities)
26 Aug 2016 What’s the cost of preserving the past? BBC Radio Programme (Post)
25 Aug 2016 Opportunities: 25 Aug 2016 (Opportunities)
22 Aug 2016 Culture crime news 15–21 August 2016 (News)
18 Aug 2016 Free online course Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime running again in October (Uncategorized)
18 Aug 2016 Opportunities: 18 Aug 2016 (Opportunities)
15 Aug 2016 Culture crime news 8–14 August 2016 (News)
11 Aug 2016 Opportunities: 11 Aug 2016 (Opportunities)
08 Aug 2016 Culture crime news 1–7 August 2016 (News)
04 Aug 2016 Opportunities: 4 Aug 2016 (Opportunities)
01 Aug 2016 Culture crime news 25–31 July 2016 (News)
25 Jul 2016 Culture crime news 18–24 July 2016 (News)
22 Jul 2016 The Pre-Columbian Antiquities Market: Reflections, Critiques, and Effecting Change [call for abstracts] (Uncategorized)
18 Jul 2016 Culture crime news 11–17 July 2016 (News)
11 Jul 2016 Culture crime news 4–10 July 2016 (News)
07 Jul 2016 Opportunities: 7 July 2016 (Opportunities)
04 Jul 2016 Culture crime news 27 June–3 July 2016 (News)
01 Jul 2016 Cultural Protection Fund: £30mil from UK Govt for projects in the Middle East (News)
30 Jun 2016 Busy two weeks for cultural heritage protection (and for me) (News)
29 Jun 2016 Wonderful Lords words for the UK Cultural Property (Armed Conflict) Bill (Post)
27 Jun 2016 Culture crime news 20–26 June 2016 (News)
20 Jun 2016 Culture crime news 13–19 June 2016 (News)
16 Jun 2016 Opportunities: 16 June 2016 (Opportunities)
13 Jun 2016 Culture crime news 6–12 June 2016 (News)
09 Jun 2016 Opportunities: 9 June 2016 (Opportunities)
06 Jun 2016 Culture crime news 30 May–5 June 2016 (News)
02 Jun 2016 Opportunities: 2 June 2016 (Opportunities)
30 May 2016 Culture crime news 23–29 May 2016 (News)
30 May 2016 Culture Crime News: an online art and antiquities crime news database (Post)
23 May 2016 Culture crime news 16–22 May 2016 (News)
20 May 2016 The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith (Book Review)
19 May 2016 Opportunities: 19 May 2016 (Opportunities)
16 May 2016 Culture crime news 9–15 May 2016 (News)
13 May 2016 Hitler’s Art Dealer (Hitlers Kunsthändler) by Meike Hoffmann and Nicola Kuhn (Book Review)
12 May 2016 Opportunities: 12 May 2016 (Opportunities)
11 May 2016 That kid didn’t find a lost Maya city. Don’t believe what you read. (Post)
10 May 2016 Ambassadors to Germany gather to discuss draft law on the Protection of Cultural Property [Press Release] (Post)
09 May 2016 Culture crime news 2–8 May 2016 (News)
05 May 2016 Opportunities: 5 May 2016 (Opportunities)
03 May 2016 Open letter in support of restricting the import of stolen Bolivian antiquities into the US (Post)
03 May 2016 Culture crime news 25 April–1 May 2016 (News)
28 Apr 2016 You can help protect Bolivian antiquities and sacred art from trafficking with one comment (Post)
25 Apr 2016 Culture crime news 18–24 April 2016 (News)
24 Apr 2016 19th century tomb robbers: ‘The Royal Mummies of Deir el-Bahari’ by Gaston Maspero (1889) (Post)
21 Apr 2016 Opportunities: 21 April 2016 (Opportunities)
18 Apr 2016 Culture crime news 11–17 April 2016 (News)
17 Apr 2016 A Galileo Forgery edited by Horst Bredekamp et al. (Book Review)
11 Apr 2016 Culture crime news 4–10 April 2016 (News)
07 Apr 2016 Opportunities: 7 April 2016 (Opportunities)
04 Apr 2016 Culture crime news 28 March–3 April 2016 (Uncategorized)
03 Apr 2016 UNESCO Round Table: The movement of cultural property in 2016 (Conference Review)
31 Mar 2016 Opportunities: 31 March 2016 (Opportunities)
28 Mar 2016 Culture crime news 21–27 March 2016 (News)
27 Mar 2016 The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal (Book Review)
24 Mar 2016 Opportunities: 24 March 2016 (Opportunities)
21 Mar 2016 Culture crime news 14–20 March 2016 (News)
18 Mar 2016 The US Govt can’t stop seizing looted Asian art this week. Hooray! (Post)
14 Mar 2016 Culture crime news 7–13 March 2016 (News)
14 Mar 2016 Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel (Book Review)
10 Mar 2016 Opportunities: 10 March 2016 (Opportunities)
07 Mar 2016 Culture crime news 29 February–6 March 2016 (News)
07 Mar 2016 Conflict antiquities and conflicted antiquities by Alice Stevenson (Paper Review)
03 Mar 2016 Opportunities: 3 March 2016 (Opportunities)
29 Feb 2016 Culture crime news 22–28 February 2016 (News)
29 Feb 2016 The Lives of Colonial Objects by Cooper, Paterson, & Wanhalla (eds) (Book Review)
26 Feb 2016 Illicit antiquities chic? Faux decapitated Buddha heads as decor (Post)
25 Feb 2016 Opportunities: 25 February 2016 (Opportunities)
22 Feb 2016 Culture crime news 16–21 February 2016 (News)
22 Feb 2016 Bone Rooms by Samuel J. Redman (Book Review)
21 Feb 2016 FAQ: Online PGCert in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime (Post)
18 Feb 2016 Opportunities: 18 February 2016 (Opportunities)
15 Feb 2016 Culture crime news 8–15 February 2016 (Uncategorized)
15 Feb 2016 A Fool and His Monet by Sandra Orchard (Book Review)
08 Feb 2016 Culture crime news 1–7 February 2016 (News)
07 Feb 2016 Watch me answer questions about antiquities trafficking (YouTube) (Post)
07 Feb 2016 The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Property by Laurie Rush and Luisa Benedettini Millington (Book Review)
05 Feb 2016 New degree programme: MSc Collecting & Provenance in an International Context (News)
04 Feb 2016 Opportunities: 4 February 2016 (Opportunities)
01 Feb 2016 Culture crime news 25–31 January 2016 (News)
29 Jan 2016 Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery by Arne Birkenstock (Film Review)
29 Jan 2016 Curious about antiquities trafficking and art crime? Study with me! (Post)
28 Jan 2016 Opportunities: 21 January 2016 (Opportunities)
25 Jan 2016 Culture crime news 18–24 January 2016 (News)
21 Jan 2016 Opportunities: 21 January 2016 (Opportunities)
18 Jan 2016 Culture crime news 11–17 January 2016 (News)
17 Jan 2016 Famous Art Robberies, a game by Kulturmeister (Game Review)
14 Jan 2016 Opportunities: 14 January 2016 (Opportunities)
11 Jan 2016 Culture crime news 4–10 January 2016 (News)
11 Jan 2016 A Savage Country by Paul Moon (Book Review)
04 Jan 2016 Culture crime news 28 December 2015–3 January 2016 (News)
04 Jan 2016 Fallen Glory by James Crawford (Book Review)
01 Jan 2016 Head aches: Easter Island’s missing moai (Post)

2015 (113)

30 Dec 2015 Culture crime news 21–27 December 2015 (News)
23 Dec 2015 Opportunities: 24 December 2015 (Opportunities)
21 Dec 2015 Culture crime news 14–20 December 2015 (News)
20 Dec 2015 Kidnapped culture: a visit to New Zealand’s looted, smuggled, returned Motunui Panels (Post)
19 Dec 2015 Antiquities Tax Fraud and Illicit Cultural Property in Latin America: 2 new papers (Post)
14 Dec 2015 Culture crime news 7–13 December 2015 (News)
14 Dec 2015 Faking Ancient Mesoamerica by Nancy L. Kelker and Karen O. Bruhns (Book Review)
13 Dec 2015 Wanted: Antiquities Trafficking Intern (Post)
10 Dec 2015 Opportunities: 10 December 2015 (Opportunities)
09 Dec 2015 Fake Mexican Antiquities by Leopoldo Batres (1910, PDF) (Post)
07 Dec 2015 Three Recent Presentations on Antiquities Trafficking (Slides) (Post)
07 Dec 2015 Culture crime news 30 November–6 December 2015 (News)
06 Dec 2015 Disappearing Ink by Travis McDade (Book Review)
02 Dec 2015 Opportunities: 3 December 2015 (Opportunities)
02 Dec 2015 Value of authenticity and collectors’ ‘higher loyalties’ when buying illicit artefacts and orchids: 2 open access papers (Post)
02 Dec 2015 On Coin Theft at the National Museum of Scotland: Conversation (Post)
30 Nov 2015 The textured pleasure of a disputed Van Gogh (Post)
30 Nov 2015 Culture crime news 23–29 November 2015 (News)
30 Nov 2015 Bog Bodies Uncovered by Miranda Aldhouse-Green (Book Review)
26 Nov 2015 Opportunities: 26 November 2015 (Opportunities)
23 Nov 2015 Culture crime news 16–22 November 2015 (News)
21 Nov 2015 An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (Book Review)
19 Nov 2015 Opportunities: 19 November 2015 (Opportunities)
16 Nov 2015 Culture crime news 9–15 November 2015 (News)
14 Nov 2015 The Collector’s Cabinet by Marc Allum (Book Review)
12 Nov 2015 Opportunities: 12 November 2015 (Opportunities)
11 Nov 2015 Chi, DC, CT: I’m giving public talks in the US this month (Post)
09 Nov 2015 Culture crime news 2–8 November 2015 (News)
07 Nov 2015 The Art of the Con by Anthony M. Amore (Book Review)
03 Nov 2015 Opportunities: 3 November 2015 (Opportunities)
02 Nov 2015 Culture crime news 26 October–1 November 2015 (News)
01 Nov 2015 Join me for #AcWriMo: ‘Academic Writing Month’ (Post)
30 Oct 2015 The Scientist and the Forger by Jehane Ragai (Book Review)
29 Oct 2015 Saving info (and your skin) on the ephemeral internet: a “how-to” for researchers (Post)
29 Oct 2015 Opportunities: 29 October 2015 (Opportunities)
26 Oct 2015 Culture crime news 19–25 October 2015 (News)
24 Oct 2015 The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne by M.L. Longworth (Book Review)
22 Oct 2015 Opportunities: 22 October 2015 (Opportunities)
20 Oct 2015 Marble democracy at the Athens airport (Post)
19 Oct 2015 Culture crime news 12–18 October 2015 (News)
18 Oct 2015 The Munich Art Hoard by Catherine Hickley (Book Review)
15 Oct 2015 Bad Luck, Hot Rocks by Ryan Thompson and Phil Orr (Book Review)
15 Oct 2015 Opportunities: 15 October 2015 (Opportunities)
14 Oct 2015 Antiquities and Art Crime FREE Online Course: Sign up Now (Post)
12 Oct 2015 Culture crime news 5–11 October 2015 (News)
09 Oct 2015 Ivory Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown (Book Review)
08 Oct 2015 Opportunities: 8 October 2015 (Opportunities)
08 Oct 2015 “Does anyone really think that a raised plinth will deter drunk Glaswegians?” (Post)
07 Oct 2015 Is looting-to-order “just a myth”? by Samuel Andrew Hardy (Paper Review)
05 Oct 2015 Scottish Sphinxes: Neo-antiquities at Culzean Castle (Post)
05 Oct 2015 Culture crime news 28 September–4 October 2015 (News)
02 Oct 2015 Hitler’s Art Thief by Susan Roland (Book Review)
01 Oct 2015 Opportunities: 1 October 2015 (Opportunities)
28 Sep 2015 Culture crime news 21–27 September 2015 (News)
27 Sep 2015 Multiple thefts and the defunding of museum protection (Post)
27 Sep 2015 The Orpheus Clock by Simon Goodman (Book Review)
24 Sep 2015 Opportunities: 24 September 2015 (Opportunities)
21 Sep 2015 Culture crime news 14–20 September 2015 (News)
19 Sep 2015 The Dirty Business of Antiquity (Das schmutzige Geschäft mit der Antike) By Günther Wessel (Book Review)
17 Sep 2015 Opportunities: 17 September 2015 (Opportunities)
14 Sep 2015 Culture crime news 7–13 September 2015 (News)
11 Sep 2015 Shaky Ground by Elizabeth Marlowe (Book Review)
10 Sep 2015 Opportunities: 10 September 2015 (Opportunities)
09 Sep 2015 Preventing Protection: On-the-ground barriers to effective cultural property policy in Bolivia & Belize (Post)
08 Sep 2015 I’m a Lecturer now! (Post)
07 Sep 2015 Culture crime news 31 August–6 September 2015 (News)
05 Sep 2015 Curated Ruins and the Endurance of Conflict Heritage by Gabriel Moshenska (Paper Review)
03 Sep 2015 Opportunities: 3 September 2015 (Opportunities)
02 Sep 2015 Reveling in a Maya masterpiece (Post)
31 Aug 2015 Culture crime news 24–30 August 2015 (News)
30 Aug 2015 Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian (Book Review)
27 Aug 2015 Opportunities: 27 August 2015 (Opportunities)
27 Aug 2015 Glasgow Artists: Want one of your works featured in my online course trailer? (Post)
23 Aug 2015 Culture crime news 17–23 August 2015 (News)
23 Aug 2015 New: learning and job opportunities email list for art and antiquities crime (Post)
22 Aug 2015 Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime: I’m developing a free online course! (Post)
17 Aug 2015 Culture crime news 10–16 August 2015 (News)
14 Aug 2015 The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac (Book Review)
10 Aug 2015 Culture crime news 3–9 August 2015 (News)
03 Aug 2015 Culture crime news 27 July–2 August 2015 (News)
27 Jul 2015 Culture crime news 20–26 July 2015 (News)
21 Jul 2015 Culture crime news 13–19 July 2015 (News)
14 Jul 2015 Culture crime news 6–12 July 2015 (News)
06 Jul 2015 Culture crime news 29 June–5 July 2015 (News)
29 Jun 2015 Culture crime news 22–28 June 2015 (News)
22 Jun 2015 Culture crime news 16–21 June 2015 (News)
15 Jun 2015 Culture crime news 8–15 June 2015 (News)
08 Jun 2015 Culture crime news 1–7 June 2015 (News)
01 Jun 2015 Over 200 Colonial and Republican objects stolen from Guatemalan Museum (Post)
01 Jun 2015 Culture crime news 25–31 May 2015 (News)
25 May 2015 Culture crime news 18–24 May 2015 (News)
18 May 2015 Culture crime news 11–17 May 2015 (News)
11 May 2015 Culture crime news 4–10 May 2015 (News)
06 May 2015 300 photos of Kathmandu and Bhaktapur pre-earthquake (Dec 2014) (Post)
19 Apr 2015 Culture crime news 13–19 April 2015 (News)
13 Apr 2015 Culture crime news 6–12 April 2015 (News)
06 Apr 2015 Culture crime news 30 March–5 April 2015 (News)
29 Mar 2015 Culture crime news 23–29 March 2015 (News)
23 Mar 2015 Culture crime news 16–22 March 2015 (News)
16 Mar 2015 Culture crime news: 9–15 March (News)
09 Mar 2015 Culture crime news 2 March–8 March 2015 (News)
08 Mar 2015 Poor reporting of the destruction of heritage threatens our ability to protect the past. (Post)
02 Mar 2015 Culture crime news 23 February–1 March 2015 (News)
23 Feb 2015 Culture crime news 16–22 February 2015 (News)
16 Feb 2015 Culture crime news 9–15 February 2015 (News)
09 Feb 2015 Culture crime news: 2–8 February 2015 (News)
02 Feb 2015 Culture crime news: 26 January–1 February 2015 (News)
26 Jan 2015 Culture crime news 19–25 January 2015 (News)
24 Jan 2015 Do what you do well already, but in public (Post)
19 Jan 2015 Culture crime news 12–18 January 2015 (News)
15 Jan 2015 Cultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of… me (Post)
12 Jan 2015 Culture crime news 5–11 January 2015 (News)
08 Jan 2015 I (mostly) work for free: academic reality (Post)

2014 (90)

19 Dec 2014 Failures and consequences of antiquities trafficking policy: rethinking ‘country-specific’ regulation (Post)
08 Dec 2014 Culture crime news 1–7 December 2014 (News)
01 Dec 2014 Culture crime news 24–30 November 2014 (News)
24 Nov 2014 Culture crime news 17–23 November 2014 (News)
17 Nov 2014 Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends (Post)
17 Nov 2014 Culture crime news 10–16 November 2014 (News)
13 Nov 2014 Ethically questionable AIA St Louis Maya vessel sells for over 2x estimate (Post)
10 Nov 2014 Culture crime news 3–9 November 2014 (News)
03 Nov 2014 Culture crime news 27 October–2 November 2014 (News)
27 Oct 2014 Archaeological Institute of America St. Louis Society selling Meosamerican antiquities at auction (Post)
27 Oct 2014 Two looted, mutilated Maya monuments for sale online (Post)
27 Oct 2014 Culture crime news 13–26 October 2014 (News)
13 Oct 2014 Culture crime news 6 October–12 October 2014 (News)
06 Oct 2014 Culture crime news 29 September–5 October 2014 (News)
02 Oct 2014 Faking the Past: when archaeologists commit fraud (Post)
29 Sep 2014 Culture crime news 22–28 September 2014 (News)
22 Sep 2014 Culture crime news 15–21 September 2014 (News)
15 Sep 2014 Culture crime news 8–14 September 2014 (News)
11 Sep 2014 Investigating the trafficking of cultural objects: lineup for SAA 2015 (Post)
08 Sep 2014 Culture crime news 1–7 September 2014 (News)
01 Sep 2014 Culture crime news 25–31 August 2014 (News)
28 Aug 2014 Drunk Archaeology: …it belongs in a museum! (Post)
25 Aug 2014 Culture crime news 18–24 August 2014 (News)
18 Aug 2014 Culture crime news 11–17 August 2014 (News)
11 Aug 2014 Culture crime news 4–10 August 2014 (News)
06 Aug 2014 Researching the global trade in looted cultural objects (slides with audio) (Post)
06 Aug 2014 Call for Abstracts: Investigating the trafficking of cultural objects (Post)
04 Aug 2014 Culture crime news 28 July–3 August 2014 (News)
28 Jul 2014 Culture crime news 21–27 July 2014 (News)
24 Jul 2014 Dance of the Maize God: a beautiful film about the pillaging of the Maya past (Film Review)
21 Jul 2014 “This is my livelihood”: Maya Mountains cave story (Post)
21 Jul 2014 Culture crime news 14–20 July 2014 (News)
17 Jul 2014 “They will be looking for it!”: Little boy’s story (Post)
16 Jul 2014 “It’s sad because something beautiful was destroyed”: Bus stop story (Post)
14 Jul 2014 Culture crime news 07–13 July 2014 (News)
13 Jul 2014 Hollywood’s ancient Maya: illegal movie footage as trafficked cultural property? (Post)
12 Jul 2014 What we’ve lost: 2 stories of the Maya Buenavista vase (Post)
11 Jul 2014 Lost cities and looted tombs: Studying artifact smuggling in Belize (Post)
07 Jul 2014 Culture crime news 30 June–06 July 2014 (News)
05 Jul 2014 Ransoms and Repatriations: the Maori Motunui panels (Post)
01 Jul 2014 Maya artefacts and Mexican bandits: trafficking tall tales (Post)
30 Jun 2014 Heading to Belize for preliminary fieldwork: a call for info (Post)
30 Jun 2014 Culture crime news 23–29 June 2014 (News)
23 Jun 2014 Culture crime news 16–22 June 2014 (News)
21 Jun 2014 Was the ancient Maya tomb of Copán’s first queen looted “to order”? (Post)
16 Jun 2014 Culture crime news 9–15 June 2014 (News)
14 Jun 2014 Trafficking Culture in National Geographic (Post)
09 Jun 2014 Culture crime news 2–8 June 2014 (News)
09 Jun 2014 Sacking the Necropolis: how 100 Peruvian mummy textiles ended up in Sweden (Post)
02 Jun 2014 Culture crime news 26 May–1 June 2014 (News)
01 Jun 2014 PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around (Post)
26 May 2014 Culture crime news 19–25 May 2014 (News)
24 May 2014 “Hell yes, it was smuggled”: Stolen Cambodian statue is not the first Norton Simon has returned (Post)
19 May 2014 When looters find lost cities: Site Q and Ixtontón (Post)
19 May 2014 Culture crime news 12–18 May 2014 (News)
12 May 2014 Culture crime news 5–11 May 2014 (News)
07 May 2014 High-altitude mummy looting: the Cerro El Plomo child (Post)
05 May 2014 Culture crime news 28 April–4 May 2014 (News)
28 Apr 2014 The Power of Plausible Provenance (Post)
28 Apr 2014 Culture crime news 21–27 April 2014 (News)
21 Apr 2014 Culture crime news 14–20 April 2014 (News)
20 Apr 2014 ‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast (Post)
18 Apr 2014 Stolen painting? No: poor reporting. (Post)
14 Apr 2014 Culture crime news: 7–13 Apr 2014 (News)
07 Apr 2014 “LA Times OpEd Distorts Both Archaeology and the Law” (Post)
07 Apr 2014 Culture crime news: 31 Mar–06 Apr 2014 (News)
05 Apr 2014 On BBC Radio Scotland talking about antiquities trafficking (Post)
04 Apr 2014 De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France (Post)
03 Apr 2014 “Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns (Post)
01 Apr 2014 Two pots, two stories: vignette on the looting of Guatemala’s Maya past (Post)
31 Mar 2014 Culture crime news: 24–30 Mar 2014 (News)
24 Mar 2014 Culture crime news: 17–23 Mar 2014 (News)
21 Mar 2014 Illicit antiquities trade, basic assertions (Post)
17 Mar 2014 Culture crime news: 10–16 Mar 2014 (News)
13 Mar 2014 US/Honduras cultural property agreement renewed and extended (Post)
11 Mar 2014 World’s largest pyramid threatened by road construction (Post)
10 Mar 2014 Loopholes: dealers and museums profit from ‘charitable’ donations (Post)
10 Mar 2014 Culture crime news: 3–9 Mar 2014 (News)
08 Mar 2014 Wrongs and rights at the National Gallery of Australia (Post)
07 Mar 2014 Dinosaur smugglers and fossil thieves (Post)
06 Mar 2014 Intact Mexican shaft tomb found, guarded by shaman figurine (Post)
06 Mar 2014 Den of thieves: When art is stolen from a Latin American church it’s everyone’s loss (Post)
03 Mar 2014 Church Theft, Insecurity, and Community Justice (Post)
02 Mar 2014 Culture crime news: 24 Feb–2 Mar 2014 (News)
24 Feb 2014 Culture crime news: 17–23 Feb 2014 (News)
19 Feb 2014 Trafficking Culture project seeks a Research Associate (Post)
17 Feb 2014 The realities of auction catalogue analysis (Post)
17 Feb 2014 Culture crime news: 10–16 Feb 2014 (News)
10 Feb 2014 What archaeologists can (but usually don’t) do to help reduce the illicit trade in cultural objects (Post)
07 Feb 2014 On early career research, the future, and focus (focus, focus) (Post)

2013 (14)

02 Nov 2013 Does the Illicit Antiquities Trade Fund al-Qaida? (Post)
22 Oct 2013 Not far ‘Beyond El Dorado’ (Exhibition Review)
22 Oct 2013 Sipán: A case-study of circumventing cultural property regulation (Post)
06 Sep 2013 Conclusions: South American antiquities auctions and my academic past (Post)
27 Jul 2013 Looting Río Azul and “looting” the Detroit Institute of Arts (Post)
27 Jul 2013 High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes (Post)
07 Jun 2013 “Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press (Post)
29 Apr 2013 The Virgin of Copacabana has been looted (Post)
12 Apr 2013 Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain (Post)
25 Mar 2013 Belize: Anti-Looting posters! (Post)
25 Mar 2013 So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend (Post)
04 Mar 2013 The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2 (Post)
03 Mar 2013 The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law. (Post)
03 Mar 2013 Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts (Post)

2012 (34)

03 Dec 2012 Demand for Colonial Bolivian Silver Objects: Melt it down? Sell it on? (Post)
28 Nov 2012 “Community Justice” and Cultural Property: Very preliminary thoughts (Post)
13 Nov 2012 Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why? (Post)
08 Nov 2012 [Antiquities] Trafficking Gangs Operate in Bolivia (in English) (Post)
06 Nov 2012 Sad comments by Cleveland Museum curator: A looted Wari pouch ‘symbolizes the entire exhibition’ (Post)
05 Nov 2012 Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón] (Post)
30 Oct 2012 Maya Murals, Mercury, and Risk (Post)
26 Oct 2012 Images of historic looting (Post)
14 Oct 2012 A new/old colleague: Trafficking Culture gets Cambodia’d (Post)
13 Oct 2012 Replica Monuments and Warrior Queens in Guatemala (Post)
02 Oct 2012 Guatemala: Masks, Church Stuff, and a False Divide (Post)
19 Sep 2012 Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of ‘the oldest’ (Post)
22 Aug 2012 Introducing the Trafficking Culture Website (Post)
18 Aug 2012 More on pouches, pots, and my skewed perceptions (Post)
17 Aug 2012 Other antiquities on the Cleveland Museum website! (Post)
07 Jul 2012 Who is googling? Evangelize or let it rest? (Post)
04 Jul 2012 “I am the old looter and I’ve come to loot pottery” (Post)
20 Jun 2012 Provenance Pitfalls, Lost Jewels, and Glasgow Airport (Post)
17 Jun 2012 Location, Research and Ideas (Post)
12 Jun 2012 Sotheby’s, 22 March, 1982 (Post)
06 Jun 2012 Julio C. Tello, bringing context to Peru (Post)
05 Jun 2012 Want to hear about what is going on at Glasgow? (Post)
29 Apr 2012 Believability, the burden of proof and Occam’s Razor (Post)
22 Mar 2012 Mali: MOU negotiations during and after a coup? (Post)
22 Mar 2012 Who is in charge of Mali? Also, so much going on! (Post)
27 Feb 2012 Antiquities in the Media: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) (Post)
27 Feb 2012 I’m moving to Glasgow (Post)
25 Feb 2012 “Infotrapping the Illicit Antiquities Trade” (Post)
15 Feb 2012 Screaming mummies and stolen paintings (Post)
14 Feb 2012 1 Million Euros for Illicit Antiquities Research at Glasgow (Post)
06 Feb 2012 Licit antiquities: The Art of Marian Maguire (Post)
04 Feb 2012 Hot Off the Presses: the latest International Journal of Cultural Property (Post)
04 Feb 2012 Personal Stats, Disturbing Searches (Post)
04 Feb 2012 17 Great Archaeology Blogs on the Anitquities Trade and Looting (Post)

2011 (9)

22 Dec 2011 Neurologically speaking, ascribed “authenticity” matters to us (Post)
21 Dec 2011 Ad implications: Helping us all get through customs (Post)
15 Dec 2011 Peruvian MOU hearing: submitted to an email list (Post)
13 Dec 2011 Gold monkey head finally going back to Perú (Post)
12 Dec 2011 Provenience Curation? The MFA’s response and responsibility (Post)
11 Dec 2011 US/Bolivia MOU Extended! (Post)
11 Dec 2011 Returns from a Swiss Collector: Anonymity Amnesty? (Post)
11 Dec 2011 Q: Who is the Anonymous Swiss Collector? (Post)
11 Dec 2011 Inaugural Post! (Post)