Archive for February, 2011

Gone Forever

Thursday, February 10th, 2011 Posted in Art Insurance, Art Theft | No Comments »

A fact that is so often overlooked in the art world is that once a painting is stolen it may never be seen again, and unlike many other objects, a ... Read more..

Stealing the Mystic Lamb

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 Posted in ARCA, Art Theft, Libraries, Museums | No Comments »

Among all the accolades given to various works of art over the centuries, perhaps none is more unusual than this one: most-stolen. The long-reigning champion is Jan van Eyck’s Ghent’s ... Read more..

ARCA 2011 Masters Program

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 Posted in Art Theft | No Comments »

ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is accepting applications for its 2011 Masters Program in International Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection Studies. The official deadline for applications for ... Read more..

NYC Art Theft

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 Posted in Art Insurance, Art Theft, Home Art Security, NYC Art Theft | No Comments »

The brazen theft of iconoclastic paintings from a well-secured New York City building has highlighted the need for additional measures to protect hanging art. Police estimated that thieves made off ... Read more..

Restuarant Art Theft

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Art Theft | No Comments »

Few people think of restaurants as targets for art theft. This recent press note caught our eye. Noted Pleasanton (CA) artist Charlotte Severin said yesterday that three of her
five original ... Read more..

Is Protecting Religious Art and Anomoly?

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Art Theft, Churches | No Comments »

There has been more than the usual number of articles about church theft in the past few years. This leads us to believe that theft of religious artifacts around the ... Read more..

Take the Art and Run

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Antiques, Art Theft | No Comments »

Crime and art appear to be becoming ever-closer bedfellows in our contemporary world. You only have to look at sky-rocketing values to understand why. Prices soar as markets expand, as ... Read more..

Art Fairs Have Become a Target for Thieves

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Art Fairs, Art Theft | Comments Off

This Japanese bronze sculpture, standing 5 ¾ inches high, was lifted from the Winter Antiques Show. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27586/artful-dodgers/. At the Winter Antiques Show at New York’s Park Avenue Armory in January, Japanese-art ... Read more..

 The Problem with Security

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Art Theft, Libraries, Museums | No Comments »

The following was excerpted from a New Haven, CT newspaper on March 23, '08 after several thefts of art from local institutions. The theft was caught on camera, but the ... Read more..

Art Harder to Insure at Art Fairs

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 Posted in Art Fairs, Art Insurance, Art Theft | No Comments »

As reported in The Art Newspaper, Richard Northcott, Exec Director of the art division of Heath Lambert, a London re-insurer, says that re-insurance companies -- firms that protect specialist fine ... Read more..