Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime
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In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has now slowly begun to change on both the local and international level as criminals, encouraged in part by the record sums now being paid…
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I really like the discussion of the Metropolitan Museum’s celebrated acquisition of the ancient Greek Eurphronios Krater, which turned out to have been stolen from a tomb and had to be returned to Italy.
We read that even taking less valuable items “damages archaeological heritage, thereby compromising or weakening historical scholarship.”
I appreciate how this also applies to the unrelated minister who got into the Edward Hopper estate and who hid Hopper’s papers—5,000 documents—for 50 years, damaging their context, perhaps destroying some.
I wrote my biography and definitive catalogue of Hopper’s art without access to most of these papers. Now…
From Gail's list on the fate of the Edward Hopper Estate.
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