Art Crime Special article

Picasso. De Goya. Rembrandt… The works of these artists and countless others have fallen prey to crime. By vandalism, theft or other ways, the art world is not exempt from the world of crime.
According to Teressa Davis, managing director of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA), there are many different types of art crime which includes looting archeological sites, smuggling antiquities and theft from public and private collections.
“There is no one type of art crime, just [...]

Portrait Looted by the Nazi, is Returned at the Jewish Museum of Belgium

BRUSSELS.- A portrait of a child with her pet rabbit by Belgian artist, Antoine (Anto) Carte that was looted by the Nazis during the Belgian Occupation has been returned to its owner after the Art Loss Register (ALR) located it in the hands of an art dealer from Long Island, USA. ‘Jeune Fille a la Robe Bleue’ (1932) was the centrepiece of a hand-over ceremony at the Jewish Museum of Belgium on 1 December [...]