CPA News
Picasso Sketch Stolen
6th Jul, 2011An original Picasso artwork worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was taken from a San Francisco art gallery Tuesday morning in a brazen daylight heist, according to police and the gallery.A man walked into the Weinstein Gallery in the 300 block of Ge... Click for more...
Thief Checks Out Leger From Carlyle's Helly Nahmad Gallery
6th Jul, 2011Thief Steals Léger From Helly Nahmad Gallery: Someone crept into the Carlyle hotel between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. yesterday and stole Léger's 1917 "Composition aux Element Mecaniques" from the gallery, which is based on the hotel's first floor. No arrests... Click for more...
Bulger arrest may yield clues on Gardner Museum heist
26th Jun, 2011The capture last week of Boston’s most sought-after criminal has given rise to speculation about the potential return of the city’s most sought-after art objects: the 13 pieces of artwork stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.http://a... Click for more...
Antiquities Ministry deny that artifacts had been stolen from the Museum in Cairo
24th Jun, 2011The Antiquities Ministry denied on Friday that some artifacts had been stolen from the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, in response to an Al-Ahram article implying otherwise."The circulated news that some antiquities were stolen from the Islamic Museum ... Click for more...
Holocaust-Looted Art: A Changing Legal Landscape
22nd Jun, 2011In recent months, the United States federal courts have grappled with a spate of cases addressing the restitution of Nazi-looted art. Arguably the best-known of these cases, United States of America v. Portrait of Wally, involving a painting by Egon Sc... Click for more...
Recovering Artwork Owned by U.S. Government
10th Jun, 2011In 1942, with World War II raging, the Library of Congress took the precaution of sending some of its national treasures to a guarded facility in the Midwest, including a collection of Walt Whitman’s papers, which were sealed in packing cases prior t... Click for more...
Holocaust Records Project
30th May, 2011The Holocaust Records Project has the task of identifying, preserving, describing, and microfilming (now digitizing) more than twenty million pages of records created by the Allies in occupied Europe regarding Nazi looted art and the restitution of nat... Click for more...
Russia Bans Loans to US Museums
26th May, 2011Russia has banned loans to U.S. museums in retaliation for a U.S. district court ruling mandating that Russia return a trove of religious books and manuscripts to the Jewish group Chabad.http://clancco.com/wp/2011/05/in-retaliation-russia-bans-loans-to... Click for more...
Global records catalogue of Nazi-looted art published online
18th May, 2011The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, along with other leading national archives and museums, signed a global agreement on 5th May in Washington DC to provide an international online catalogue of documentation on cultura... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Holland Returns a Florid Brueghel Allegory, Once Looted by Nazis
18th Nov, 2010The Dutch government has returned Brueghel the Younger's "Allegory of Earth and Water" — also known as "Allegory of Life and Water" — to its rightful owners after discovering that the work had been stolen by Nazis during World War II.http://www.art... Click for more...
Italian Police show latest recovery of looted art
16th Jul, 2010Italian police have recovered hundreds of ancient artifacts in their latest effort to crack down on the looting of art. Click for more...
Reassembled 15th century altarpiece to go home
6th May, 2010A 500 year altarpiece by Friedrich Pacher has recently been reassembled and will go back to the Alpine village for which it was commissioned. Click for more...
