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Strange Art Goes Missing From Beetlejuice 2 Set

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone July 24, 2023July 24, 2023

Police say thieves stole one of the film’s iconic abstract sculptures and a lamppost with a “distinctive pumpkin decoration.”

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FBI’s New Stolen Art App Leaves a Lot to Be Desired

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

Users can search for stolen works and submit tips, all while navigating the aesthetic world — and technology — of a 1990s spy movie.

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A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 28, 2022August 1, 2022

The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.

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Ukraine Accuses Russia of Looting Over 2,000 Artworks

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie May 2, 2022May 2, 2022

A handwritten Torah scroll and paintings by Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky are among the works allegedly stolen from museums in Mariupol.

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Family of Holocaust Victim Sues Israel Museum in Jerusalem

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Ludwig Marum’s grandchildren say the museum did not conduct due diligence when it purchased a 700-year-old Haggadah book that was allegedly stolen from them.

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Uffizi Gallery Launches Online Campaign for Return of Painting Stolen by Nazis

Avatar photo by Zachary Small January 3, 2019

The Uffizi’s director has used social media to call out Germany authorities who have yet to respond to his requests for restitution.

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Easter Islanders Are Visiting British Museum to Request Repatriation of Ancestral Heritage

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber November 16, 2018

“For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said a member of the Easter Island development commission, Anakena Manutomatoma.

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Easter Islanders Ask British Museum to Return Sacred Statue, Offering Replica in Return

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 23, 2018

The Rapa Nui community has offered a basalt replica of the eight-foot, four-ton sculpture called Hoa Hakananai’a, which was stolen in 1868.

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What Central Africa’s War on Poaching Can Teach Us About Fighting the Plunder of Antiquities

by Christopher Jones July 5, 2016July 6, 2016

Calls for greater law enforcement efforts to fight antiquities trafficking have been growing ever since ISIS’ profiteering from the trade in looted antiquities became public knowledge in 2014. Two years later, concrete steps are finally being taken.

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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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US House of Representatives Passes Controversial Art Protection Bill

by Laura C. Mallonee June 12, 2015June 12, 2015

On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would ensure that authorities cannot seize works of art brought into the United States for temporary display in cultural institutions — even if they’re determined to have been stolen.

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Two Prints Go Missing at the Boston Public Library

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

When an employee at the Boston Public Library couldn’t find a Rembrandt etching in its Special Collections archive on April 8, it probably didn’t seem like too big a deal.

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“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More
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“Monumental Concerns” Symposium With Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, and More

Scholars, artists, curators, activists, and historians will convene at Syracuse University in October to consider the role of monuments and their contested place in contemporary society.

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