Art theft
Johnny Eskenazi on the cultural casualties of the Afghan war: An evening with Kalashnikovs and the Begram ivories
In 1996, the art dealer and scholar was taken secretly to the house of a Pakistani politician where he saw one of the greatest treasures from the Kabul Museum
Art dealer Adam Williams found guilty after 11 years of litigation
Williams will not appeal French court decision, citing health reasons
Freud ramps up efforts to find Bacon portrait stolen in Berlin
A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie
Thefts from UK national museums. Question in Parliament uncovers extensive losses
13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen
Art and archaeology falls casualty to the Chechen war
The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire
Christie's remove volumes from October sale to investigate links to Jagiellonian Library theft
Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered
Interview with Guita Abidari on the Art Loss Register
Their director of marketing talks on the database against crime
Thefts from V&A and Courtauld Gallery
Two Constables and three small paintings discovered to be missing from storage
Insurance payouts for the Tate as Turners remain missing
Following thefts, Tate receives funds to repurchase works stolen in Frankfurt
Florentine seizure of war-theft paintings on loan from New Zealand
It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war
Works of art vanish from Kinshasa
The change of regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo coincided with thefts from the Institut des Musées Nationaux
The arguments for and against Unidroit
Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill
Texas war booty charge thrown out of court
Technicality spares the sellers of the Quedlinburg treasure
Christie’s to auction unclaimed works of art confiscated from Austrian Jews by the Nazis
8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach
War loot funded Quedlinburg GI’s double lifestyle
Former acquaintances in Dallas’s gay scene report war booty on show in his apartment
Don’t just berate the thieves: look at the museums and excavators too
In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.
Seeking out Van Eyck's "The Just Judges" altarpiece
Next month the Belgian city of Ghent is mounting a high-tech search for a panel of Van Eyck's masterpiece missing since 1934
Looking at the findings of the “Spoils of War” conference
The meeting produced revelations, but little hope that the return of looted art will be eased
Britain's Art and Antiques Squad harnesses the latest image technology to aid crime solving
Scotland Yard launches computer system with international potential
East meets West in Prague — but the gulf tells
Conference in Prague on public galleries and private collectors hears of thefts and restitution claims in Eastern museums
Miniature altar destroyed by thieves at the V&A
Grab and smash operation on 11 November
Looted art publicly acknowledged by Soviet Minister of Culture
A commission will be set up at Gorbachev’s behest to look into cultural property removed to U.S.S.R.
The Art Newspaper brings an update on Angkor Wat situation and what is being done to preserve its treasures and history
Conservation projects are urgently needed, however hope is found underneath the Phnom Penh museum
Pork-trading, Bob-Marley fan caught red-handed with stolen Italian masterpieces
The reluctant collector: “The ugliest things I ever did see....only good for chasing away ghosts”
Theft of the Soviet Union's largest private collection of Western European and Russian art
Soviet collectors appeal for protection from KGB