Twenty-Two Historic Artifacts Repatriated by the United States to the People of Okinawa.

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Georgia's Prosecutor Pursues Criminal Charges Against Four Nationals in Book Theft Investigation

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Twenty agents “ passionate about art and research” make up the team of the Historical Heritage Brigade of the National Police in Spain. Nice interview defining “the pyramid of plunder ” the unit strives to combat.

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When a money launderer's art collection comes up for auction.

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It would be a wonderful research world if all WWII era art loss documents and all auction catalogues from all dealers could be digitised and freely available on the Internet Archive

Christ Church Picture Gallery painting by Baroque painter Salvator Rosa recovered in Romania.

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Spain's antiquities dealer arrest and the importance of facts-based reporting.

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The Netherlands will auction (via Sotheby's) 40 artworks (est. value + €5 million) seized from Jan-Dirk Paarlberg this year. If you want to look at how proceeds of organised crime impact the art market, google his name, Willem Holleeder & Willem Endstra. nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/04…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned a Sumerian sculpture dating from the third millennium BCE. The Museum's officials did not address what research had led to the return of the copper alloy sculpture.

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A fire ripped through Denmark's old stock exchange building in Copenhagen Tuesday and tore down the 400-year-old structure's iconic dragon-tail spire bloom.bg/4cXCNs0

Happy Eclipse day.
Most places along the centerline of the path of totality will see a totality duration between 3.5 and 4 minutes long today. Good stuff even for us art folks.