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Orlando Museum of Art Is “Re-Evaluating All Exhibitions” Amid FBI Raid Fallout

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu August 21, 2022August 22, 2022

A task force is attempting damage control as the museum continues to face dire consequences for displaying a group of fake Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings.

Posted inNews

FBI Raids Florida Museum and Seizes 25 Disputed Basquiats

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

The authenticity of the works, whose owners say Basquiat sold to Hollywood screenwriter Thaddeus Mumford in 1982, has been heavily scrutinized.

Posted inNews

How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?

by Cassie Packard January 17, 2022January 14, 2022

“[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities,” says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh.

Posted inNews

How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

The looted status of the stele has been well documented since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until this year that the FBI and Dallas Museum of Art collaborated to return the religious artifact.

Posted inFilm

Bringing the FBI’s War on Martin Luther King Jr. to Light

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel January 18, 2021January 14, 2022

Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary MLK/FBI, how history repeats, and how authorities treat left- and right-wing protests differently.

Posted inFilm

From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents

Avatar photo by Kambole Campbell September 16, 2020January 12, 2021

The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.

Posted inOpinion

The Disconcerting Implications of Drone Photography

Avatar photo by Sanoja Bhaumik July 22, 2020November 5, 2020

Using drone technology to photograph protests may be enticing at first, but such aerial images are also used for surveillance by law enforcement.

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A Sordid Story of FBI Oppression Told Through Spray Paint, Glitter, and Toys

by Maia Nichols July 10, 2018

This exhibition demonstrates Sadie Barnette’s genuine belief in the possibility of taking one’s time to look through one’s past, diligently, to find a political orientation that does not resent this past, or skip over it, but goes through it.

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Did an Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpture Really Make 17 FBI Agents Sick?

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 7, 2016

A towering cedar sculpture by the world-renowned artist is being blamed for the hospitalization of over a dozen employees at the FBI’s Miami field office.

Posted inIn Brief

FBI Warns of ISIS-Looted Artifacts Hitting the US Market

by Claire Voon August 28, 2015September 1, 2015

Antiquities looted by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria are entering the art market, prompting the FBI to release a flyer soliciting dealers’ and collectors’ help in halting illegal trade.

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FBI Offers Reward for Two Stolen N.C. Wyeth Paintings

by Laura C. Mallonee August 20, 2015August 20, 2015

Seen any sentimental oil paintings of medieval knights hanging around lately?

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Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage

by Laura C. Mallonee July 27, 2015July 28, 2015

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.

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