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You recognise The Scream. Would you know how to investigate its theft? Explore art crime and provenance with ARCA’s postgraduate programmes. Italy, summer 2027. www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A looted antiquity. A plundered painting. A provenance that doesn’t add up. Learn to ask the questions that matter. Join ARCA’s postgraduate certificate programmes in Amelia, Italy, in summer 2027. www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From Scholarship to Service: One Officer's Art Crime Training Impact art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/09/from...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fourteen years after Germany surrendered antiquities dealer Subhash Chandra Kapoor to India, the legal conditions that made that extradition possible have now become the reason India cannot continue to hold him.

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Stolen Once by War, Stolen Again by Thieves: The Troubled Provenance of Renoir’s Jeune Femme au puits. art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/09/stol...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As Europe's museums continue to be an enticing target, France has suffered another serious museum theft, this time at the Musée Renoir, a museum in France intimately connected with the life and work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/09/anot...

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Another Museum, Another Theft: Three Renoirs Vanish from Cagnes-sur-Mer

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Spain moved the remains of 11th century kings from San Juan de la Peña monastery to a museum in Huesca as wildfires threatened the historic site. youtu.be/Y6s43DhBpzU?...

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Spain moved the remains of 11th century kings from San Juan de la Peñ

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Who owned the lorry? Who were the 2 men? What was their relationship to the paintings in the lorry? Why were these paintings in-transit? What happened to the rest of the paintings? Lots of un-answered questions relating to the provenance of the items. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

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Chagall artwork recovered after 20 years in a customs warehouse

An engraving by Marc Chagall and a drawing by Ossip Zadkine have finally been given to museums after being confiscated on the Franco-Swiss border

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Explore the Frontlines of Art Crime: Join ARCA's 5-day professional development course on illicit antiquities trafficking in a global context & the Amelia Conference in Italy! www.artcrimeresearch.org/illicit-traf... #ArtCrime #AntiquitiesTrafficking #Archaeology #ArtLaw #AmeliaConference

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The Louvre’s new director Christophe Leribault, previously with the Palace of Versailles, talks about his vision for the national museum post heist. news.artnet.com/art-world/ch...

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New Louvre Chief Christophe Leribault Reveals His Vision for the Museum

The new director of the Louvre Christophe Leribault imagines the Apollo Gallery becoming the museum's version of Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors.

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Call for presenters and abstracts for this June's Amelia Art Crime conference remains open. Why not submit an abstract? www.artcrimeresearch.org/the-amelia-c...

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The Amelia Conference – 2026 Call For Presenters | ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Fake BBC report spreads false claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had the recently stolen Cézanne painting "Nature morte aux cerises stolen from the Magnani Rocca Foundation museum in Italy in his office. uk.news.yahoo.com/fake-bbc-rep...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Chargé d'Affaires Sagar Prasad Phuyal of the Nepal Embassy in Berlin and Dr. Axel Michaels of Heidelberg University signed a handover agreement for restitution to Nepal of the Walter Rindfleisch Collection of over 800 items dating from the 13th - 20th century. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ahv...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Updated article with press conference news. Helmet and two of three bracelets recovered due to plea deals with suspects.

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Interesting details coming out on the Fondazione Magnani Rocca museum theft. A nearby tractor and fire extinguisher were stolen the same night and may have been used to gain access the villa's grounds. bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...

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Furto opere d'arte a Villa Magnani: ecco dove sono entrati i ladri

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Art crime. Antiquities trafficking. Cultural heritage protection. Be part of the conversation. Amelia Conference 2026 | June 19–21 Registration opens 23 March: www.artcrimeresearch.org/annual-inter... Call for presenters now open: www.artcrimeresearch.org/the-amelia-c...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It's time we take a cold hard look at the art market and how it can enable cultural crime. At ARCA, our participants do exactly that: examining networks, actors, and systems that allow problematic heritage to circulate. Late applications are still open. www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate...

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ARCA @arca-artcrime.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This 3rd century CE alabaster statue base was found during an excavation conducted by an archaeological mission and stolen from the Temple of Awwam, known locally as al-Mahram Bilqîs . art-crime.blogspot.com/2026/03/neve...

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Never underestimate the power of reading new books to determine the outcomes of antiquities trafficking mysteries

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