CPA News
New York Met antiquities policy criticised by British authority
2nd Jan, 2009Colin Renfrew, a British archaeologist who is an authority on the trade in looted antiquities, is poised to criticise the antiquities policy of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click for more...
Top five art crimes of 2008
2nd Jan, 2009For every art theft that makes headlines, tens of thousands slip under the radar of the international media. Art crime has become the third-highest–grossing world criminal trade over the past 40 years. Click for more...
Mystery as dozens of public artworks vanish
2nd Jan, 2009At least 50 works of art worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are missing from British embassies and other official buildings around the world. Click for more...
Mission to recover Korean artefact from US museum
17th Dec, 2008Korean officials and Buddhist monks will visit the United States in January to seek to retrieve a cultural art piece that was stolen during Japanese colonial rule of Korea (1910-1945). Click for more...
Caravaggio painting stolen from Odessa museum recovered
8th Dec, 2008Police officers have recovered a painting by Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, or the Kiss of Judas, which had been stolen from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the Black Sea port of Odessa last July. Click for more...
Ethiopian president demands return of 'looted' artefacts
24th Nov, 2008The president of Ethiopia has written to Britain's leading museums to demand they return treasures he claims were "looted" in the 19th century. Click for more...
