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Most art crime since the 1960s
is perpetrated either by, or on
behalf of, international
organized crime syndicates.

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Selected articles about the work of ARCA and its staff.

Links:

Guardian (10 July 2011)
ArtInfo (20 August 2011)

La Nueva Espana (July 2011)
El Publico (Spain, July 2011)

BBC The One Show (UK television) - Special on 1961 Goya Theft

BBC Front Row with John Wilson (UK, 11 August 2011)
El Norte (Mexico), Lourdes Zambrano (21 August 2011)

EFE (Spain), 50 años del robo de un Goya en la National Gallery por un taxista compasivo - Belen Palanco (21 August 2011)
http://www.diariodenavarra.es/.../50_anos_del_robo_goya_national_gallery_por_taxista_compasivo.html
http://www.elnortedecastilla.es/v/20110822/cultura/anos-robo-goya-national-20110822.html
http://www.eldiario24.es/articles/57419/...National-Gallery-por-un-taxista-compasivo

LA Times (20 August 2011)
CNN, Laura Allsop (20 August 2011)

Wall Street Journal feature by Don Steinberg

Varsity (Cambridge, UK) - Article

EFE Spanish-language article on ARCA’s Masters Program Syndicated Worldwide:
- http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/923369/0/master/robo/arte/
- http://www.elnuevodia.com/traslapistadelarterobado-860914.html
- http://www.lavozdeasturias.es/culturas/superagentes-robo_arte-obras_de_arte_0_405559557.html
- http://www.elconfidencial.com/ultima-hora/2011/01/nueva-generacion-mundial-expertos-contra-obras-20110109-427184.html
- http://deia.com/2011/01/10/ocio-y-cultura/cultura/superagentes-contra-los-robos-de-arte
- http://www.observa.com.uy/MasLeidas/nota.aspx?id=107199
- http://www.vivelohoy.com/negocios/7973157/nace-una-nueva-generacion-mundial-de-expertos-contra-el-robo-de-obras-de-arte

CNN International - Spot the Fake: The Art World’s Pricey Problem with Forgery, by Laura Allsop

BBC Radio Four special on “The Carabinieri Art Squad” 9 June 2010, including an interview with ARCA founder Noah Charney

Dnevnik (Slovenia)

EFE America
Yahoo News (Argentina)
El Economista (Spain)
Ultima Hora (Spain)
El Confidencial (Spain)
Telecinco (Spain)
El Nuevo Diario (Dominican Republic)
El Mundo (Spain)

TIME Magazine -Paris Heist

De Museos/Museum Time series - El Universal (Spain)

“The Dark Arts” ARCA’s Exhibition on Art Crime at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington DC featured on Foxnews

The New Criminologist Magazine
Yale Daily News Article
Yale Entrepreneur Magazine
NPR News report
Fine Arts Registry column

New York Times Magazine article

CBC Radio Q w/ Jian Ghomeshi Interview with Noah Charney (MP3)
Radio Interview with Walters Museum Director Gary Vikan on WYPR Baltimore


PDF (and image) Downloads:

B Inspired (Sweden, Fall 2010)

June 06 2010 from Corriere dell'Umbria
“Corriere del Umbria” feature on the ARCA MA Program, June 2010)

Vanity Fair - May 2010 (Italy)

Tendencias del Mercado (Spain)

Stern Magazine (Germany)

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)

Interview with Noah Charney (Dnevnik, Slovenia, Oct 09)
To Catch an Art Theft (Voices of Tomorrow, Slovenia)

CorriereARCA (Italy)
CorriereUmbria-26Aug09 (Italy)
CorriereUmbria-8July09 (Italy)
GiornalediUmbria-6June09 (Italy)
GiornalediUmbria-ConferenceArticle (Italy)
Messegero-9July2009 (Italy)
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

 

 

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