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Art Crime Education

Hopefully you read my last post about art and cultural property crime, discussing what law enforcement agencies around the world are doing to combat this problem.  In case you missed it, you can read the full post at “Art and Crime”.  This is a growing area of specialty study and relates to a variety of fields including appraisal, investigation,  insurance, art law, security, museums and conservation. As a person who...

ART and CRIME

  When it comes to art and cultural property crime, we’re used to hearing about high profile thefts at museums.  According to the Art Loss Register, over 50% of thefts occur from private collections.  There are hundreds of thousands of reported art crimes each year, not to mention those unreported.  This includes theft, fraud and looting as well as trafficking across state lines and international borders.  The category of...

Scholarships for Personal Property Appraisers

The Foundation for Appraisal Education is offering three (3) scholarships this year to beginning and experienced personal property appraisers.  As stated on their website “The Foundation for Appraisal Education was formed to advance education related to personal property appraising and to assist individuals through scholarships for educational development to improve their capabilities by attending courses, classes, workshops...

Royal Oak Foundation lectures

The Royal Oak Foundation has scheduled a Spring lecture series of interest to appraisers, historians and Anglophiles in several cities throughout the U.S.  Some of the lecture titles include: Westminster Abbey: A Place for Royal Celebration “A Great Number of Useful Books”: The Country House Library Resurrecting the English Country House “Glorious Goodwood”: A House of Ducal Splendour “A Work to Wonder...

AVOIDING ART FORGERIES

Artfixdaily published an article this week titled “Feds Investigate Possible Forgeries of Modern Art“.  It describes how modernist paintings from a supposed anonymous private collection were sold to prominent New York galleries, and are now being investigated by the FBI as possible forgeries.  Some of the works being questioned include paintings by Pollack, Rothko, Motherwell and Diebenkorn.  A more extensive article...

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