Selected articles about the work of ARCA and its staff.

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NPR News report
Fine Arts Registry column
New York Times Magazine article

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Primo, July 2008 (Dutch Magazine)

Volkskrant, July 2008 (Dutch National Newspaper)
Page 1, Page 2

Diario de Noticias (El Pais)
El ladron (Deia, Spain)
Corriere della Sera magazine (Spain)
"Steal the World", ABC, 2007 (Spain)
Vogue Spain, October '07 Issue (Spain)

Feature Art Theft (Asia)

To Catch an Art Theft (Voices of Tomorrow, Slovenia)

Vanity Fair (Italy)
LaRepubblica (Italy)
Ventiquattro (Italy)

The Bund Pictorial, October '07 Issue (China)

TIME - 'Spirited Away' (USA)
New York Times Magazine (USA)
The CRH Bulletin Profile (USA)
(Yale) Master's Tea - Poster (USA)
Yale Daily News Article (USA)
ConnPost Article (USA)

NRC Next, October 18 '07 Issue (Netherlands)

La Tercera Article (Chile)

EL NORTE article, Mexican Newspaper (Mexico)

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What professionals are saying about ARCA:

"The theft of art and cultural property is a rapidly growing global problem, yet most countries apply few resources to its prevention or detection. Still the most frequently asked question following a major theft is "Why do people steal such identifiable objects that they can not possibly sell?" demonstrating the lack of real understanding surrounding art theft. Through the elevation of art crime as an academic subject ARCA hopes to develop a better understanding of the causes and scale of the problem and through education aid government, heritage organisations and law to combat it." 
-Richard Ellis,
former director of Scotland Yard’s Arts and Antiques Unit

“Like many others, lawyers have paid too little attention to the issues that arise with respect to art crime, and ARCA offers a unique forum for all who care or who should care about art crime to come together, learn together, and build a legion of individuals devoted to protecting art.”
-Professor Stephen Salzburg
Professor of Law, George Washington University and Chair, ABA Criminal Justice Section

"ARCA’s mission is a crucial one. What strikes me as odd and sad is that this relatively new organization is the first of its type. Although policing agencies have long been concerned with art fraud, it is lamentable that the academy has been less than recalcitrant in dealing with this important issue and as well with other matters in which morality bears on works of art and its trade. Bravo to ARCA and its organizers."
-David L. Simon
 Jetté Professor of Art, Colby College

"As the security director at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I'm more acutely aware than most of the need for the sort of serious research into art crime that ARCA is performing and its importance to prevention and recovery."
-Anthony Amore
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts

"ARCA astutely addresses the evolving political and economic significance of looted art by producing much-needed topical, practical knowledge of art crime for application in broader debates on cultural property."
- Erik Nemeth,
Research Databases, Getty Research Institute

"ARCA fulfils the very requirements for maintaining a proper awareness of the seriousness of art crime in our global society: it brings together knowledgeable persons while at the same time disseminating new findings and educating new young expert successors to safeguard continuity."
-Professor Petrus van Duyne
Distinguished Professor of Criminology, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands

 “ARCA combines logical thinking and the best practices, thinking outside the box, to put its finger on the sour spot: the link between Art and Crime.”
-Dick Drent RSE
Director Department of Security, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

“An important meeting of minds.”
-Vernon Rapley
Head of Scotland Yard’s Arts & Antiques Unit