CPA News
Brazil police find two more stolen paintings
21st Aug, 2008Brazilian police say they've recovered two stolen paintings but have yet to find a missing Picasso from a Sao Paulo art museum heist in June. Click for more...
American museums set rules against looting
21st Aug, 2008Museums should make ownership history records publicly available for all ancient art and archaeological artifacts in their collections and rigorously research new acquisitions, according to guidelines released Monday by the American Association of Museums Click for more...
Germany thanks Russia for return of looted art
21st Aug, 2008Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union returned 1.5 million art treasures looted at the end of World War II to East Germany. Twenty-eight German museums are staging a series of exhibitions to say thank you. Click for more...
Chicago museums weigh African artifacts controversy
8th Aug, 2008The Art Institute's recently opened exhibit "Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria" has thrust Chicago into an international debate over the rightful ownership of African art held in western museums. Click for more...
Chief Nazi-Loot Researcher in Germany Sees Art Claims Mounting in Germany
7th Aug, 2008The head of a new government agency charged with researching the provenance of art in public collections has said German museums harboring hundreds of artworks looted by the Nazis will face further claims for restitution. Click for more...
Ukraine laments theft of a Caravaggio from museum
7th Aug, 2008Art experts in Ukraine have lamented the theft of a work by 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio from a museum, describing it as a cultural catastrophe for ex-Soviet states. Click for more...
Hitler art collection online
6th Aug, 2008Nearly 5,000 artworks collected by Adolf Hitler can now be seen online at a virtual museum originally established to help locate the legal heirs of stolen works. Click for more...
Pop art stolen from Swedish museum
21st Jul, 2008Five paintings by U.S. pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were stolen from a museum close to Stockholm early this morning. The stolen pieces have a value of 3 million kronor ($503,000). Click for more...
Brazil police find stolen Picasso
21st Jul, 2008Police in Brazil have recovered an engraving by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a museum in Sao Paulo. Click for more...
French Man Pleads Guilty in Art Heist
15th Jul, 2008A French citizen pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell four valuable paintings stolen from a Nice, France, art museum last year in a high-profile heist that led investigators from Europe to Florida and back again. Click for more...
Let's all have tickets to the universal museum
10th Jul, 2008In an article in The Times, Ben Macintyre suggests ancient art objects need to be shared around the world. Click for more...
Skulls return to Australia from Scottish collection
8th Jul, 2008A fragment of bone one tenth of an inch long,the tiny stirrup bone of an ancient Aborigine woman in a Scottish collection, is on its way home.The fragment of bone is among the crude haul of trophies looted from the outposts of the British Empire. Click for more...
Eight more sites on UNESCO World Heritage List
8th Jul, 2008Eight new sites have joined the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it was announced today. Click for more...
Stop the appeasement of art and antiquities thieves
8th Jul, 2008An article in Canada's Globe and Mail claims museums give criminals incentives to steal and steal again by paying ransoms for art works Click for more...
US lawsuit to confiscate Schiele's Portrait of Wally suspended
3rd Jul, 2008Judgement has been postponed on a long standing claim about the ownership of Egon Schiele's 'Portrait of Wally' to allow the Government to review new evidence. Click for more...
