A fire ripped through Denmark's old stock exchange building in Copenhagen Tuesday and tore down the 400-year-old structure's iconic dragon-tail spire bloom.bg/4cXCNs0

Happy Eclipse day.
Most places along the centerline of the path of totality will see a totality duration between 3.5 and 4 minutes long today. Good stuff even for us art folks.

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee intends to meet virtually on June 4–6, 2024 to review and give advice to the U.S. Department of State on
a request for import restrictions from the Government of #Ukraine

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First rule of thumb in Museum Risk Management and Assessment:
Opportunity Makes the Thief.

'L'occasione fa il ladro', by Giovanni Battista Quadrone, olio su tela.

In a forgery and fraud scheme that may go back decades, Earl Marshawn Washington has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for selling false prints of 15th century European woodcuts attributed to Hans Holbein and Albrecht Dürer, and other famous artists.

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James Sheen has plead guilty to burglary, transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same for the theft of Maurizio Cattelan's £4.8m golden toilet 'America'. Michael Jones, Frederick Sines, and Bora Guccuk are scheduled for trial in Feb 2025. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The bright blue @ikea bag worth 49 cents and a comic by Groningen comic strip artist Barbara Stok highlighting the theft are now part of the exhibition on the recovery of Vincent Van Gogh's painting The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring, 1884 at the Groninger Museum.

Feds were ready to bring ⁦Denver Art Museum⁩ consultant Emma Bunker “into the crosshairs” before her death, says Ex-Homeland Security agent.

Attention turned to her after death of indicted antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford

⁦Sam Tabachnik⁩ denverpost.com/2024/03/31/emm…

Stolen Saint: Ukraine Authorities Retrieve the Holy Warrior Bas-Relief of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki from an Online Auction.

art-crime.blogspot.com/2024/03/stolen…

Judgment entered in favor of Plaintiff (Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc). against Defendant (Dirk D. Obbink). art-crime.blogspot.com/2024/03/judgme…

English debutante, turned IRA terrorist, Rose Dugdale, jailed for leading a notorious 1974 art heist, while her bombs were used for atrocities in London and Northern Ireland has died today.
(born March 25 1941, died March 18 2024).
telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/202…

Girolamini Library Theft - Convictions against Massimo Marino De Caro, Stéphane Alexandre Delsalle, Maurizio Bifolco, Luca Cableri, Stefano Ceccantoni and Mirko Camuri (as well as acquittals) in the network of every bookworm's antichrist.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Marks 34th Anniversary of Infamous Art Theft
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...and intentionally obfuscate the facts.

FBI Boston Recovers and Returns 22 Historic Artifacts to Okinawa, Japan taken during the World War II Battle of Okinawa.
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