Ancient Statue Sits In Limbo As Rights Question Looms
Cambodia has asked the United States government for help in recovering a thousand-year-old statue of a mythic warrior that sits in limbo at Sotheby’s in New York and that some experts believe was looted amid the convulsions of the Vietnam War and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. The statue, a sandstone masterwork with...
Video: FBI Art Crime Training
Agents on the Art Crime Team meet each year for a weeklong training seminar. This year’s session was in New York City. See more at: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/feb10/artcrime_020510.html Link: http://youtu.be/HskZK6LGyCE
Video: John Barelli – The Myths Of Art Thefts & Art Theft Investigations
John Barelli, chief security officer at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and University of Richmond alumnus, dispels the myths of the business of art theft and explores the realities of art theft. Barelli explains the process of an art theft investigation, using actual case studies and delves into world of museum security. This...
Knoedler Gallery Forgery – Follow Up
A great follow up article to my previous post about Glafira Rosales and the Knoedler Gallery in Manhattan. Link: http://nyti.ms/ycdTrk
Hot Canvases: A New Book Shatters Myths About Art Theft
Not really NY related but a good article in general. Every day when he goes to work at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, sees an empty frame on the wall. It used to hold Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert—one of 13 paintings stolen from the Gardner in the early-morning hours of March...
Mark Lugo, Art Thief – Follow Up
A wine steward who plucked artworks off hotel and gallery walls on both coasts admitted on Tuesday that he had stolen a $350,000 drawing in New York, resolving the charges against him in the city after serving his jail time in California. The thief, Mark Lugo, who decorated his apartment with the artworks, pleaded guilty...
Hirst Not Hirst: Dealer Pleads Guilty To Forging Art Appraisal Documents
On January 12, 2012, Richard Silver of Manhattan, admitted to buying online a set of prints depicting … dots, for about $40,000. He resold them for $84,000 to other collectors in the United States, Canada, and Britain. How did he do that? Well, he had the works appraised and made a few changes to the...
Collector Sues Dealers Over Possible Fake Basquiats, Warhols and Harings
Collector Joseph Goldsmith has sued dealers Robert Durant and Lee Charlton Scott over $950,000 in artwork that the two men sold him and that he now believes to be fake. That sum comprises 13 pieces supposedly by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, though the Basquiat and Haring estates have reportedly told Mr. Goldsmith...