It was my great privilege last year to speak at the 5th Annual Art Crime Conference, hosted by the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA). The conference, in Amelia, Italy, annually draws experts in varied fields of law, cultural property, archaeology, law enforcement, and more. It is also held in one of the most spectacular venues I have ever seen, a rocky outcropping , with a medieval Italian city on top of a Roman-era settlement (complete with a cistern at the top of the hill).
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Interdisciplnary Art Crime Conference,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Events,
Amelia,
ARCA,
Italy
Catherine Hickley reports from Berlin that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking into ways to put lists and/or photographs online concerning the Cornelius Gurlitt seizure of roughly 1,400 paintings with connections to Nazi looting. This followed heavy complaints in the first days of the revelation, that the government had failed to identify what has been found. The biggest question remains why this remained a secret for roughly two years since the discovery. Merkel’s government claimed yesterday it learned of the find only in the last few months.
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Stephanie Barron,
Jeu de Paume,
unbekannte Meisterwerke,
Focus,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Theo Hermsen,
S. Lane Faison,
Linz Führermuseum,
Munich Central Collecting Point,
Wiesbaden Collecting Point,
HARP,
Max Liebermann,
WWII,
Monuments Men,
Alt Aussee,
Gurlitt Collection,
Max Beckmann,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Monuments,
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Naz,
Albrecht Dürer,
Auktionshaus Lempertz,
Entartete Kunst,
Fine Arts and Archives Program,
Nazis,
Marc Chagall,
Paul Klee,
Entdeckung verschollener Kunst,
beschlagnahmte Bilder,
Holocaust Art Project,
Judge Arthur Tompkins,
Roberts Commission,
Angela Merkel,
Restitution,
1939 Galerie Fischer auction,
World War II,
degenerate art,
Capt. Doubinsky,
Los Angeles County Musuem of Art,
Erben,
Raubkunst-Bildern,
Altmann v. Republic of Austria,
Portrait of Wally,
Löwenbändiger,
Marc Masurovsky,
Franz Marc,
Oskar Kokoschka,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
München,
Pablo Picasso,
ARCA,
Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservat,
Nazi Raubkunst,
Henri Matisse,
Emil Nolde
The blog of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art, has been running a series of recaps of the June conference in Amelia, Italy at which I was a presenter this past year. The summary of my panel is here (which also included Jerker Rydén and Joris Kila), moderated by Judge Arthur Tompkins, a District Court Judge in New Zealand), and the site contains similar recaps of the other panels. They are worth a detailed read, recalling a fascinating weekend in a stunning locale. Anyone interested in the topics should review the posts and consider the conference and ARCA's summer program.
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cultural property,
Joris Kila,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Fifth Annual Art Crime Conference,
Judge Arthur Tompkins,
Events,
Jerker Rydén,
ARCA
The ABA Journal is conducting its annual poll of the best 100 blogs. For arts and the law, the blogs I read the most are below. If you are a blog reader, consider casting a vote. We are all engaged in a great conversation, and your voice matters to what we write. If nothing else, read these blogs!
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Donn Zaretsky,
Blogs,
MItchell Stein,
Kim Herman,
Peter Bert,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Lee Rosenbaum,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Plundered Art,
CultureGrrl,
ARIS,
Harry Ekblom,
Holocaust Art Research Project,
Dispute Resolution in Germany,
Looted Art,
Marc Masurovsky,
The Art Law Blog,
ARCA,
Trending Trademarks,
Business Aviation Law Blog,
Center for Art Law
I will be speaking at the 5th annual Art Crime Conference held by ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes Against Art) in Amelia, Italy between June 21-23, 2013. My talk will address Holocaust restitution litigation in the United States, similar to the paper I gave in Maastricht in March but covering important more recent developments as well (notably the Hungary case).
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cultural property,
Vernon Rapley,
Charlie Hill,
Art Crime Conference,
Howard Spiegler,
Maastricht,
Carabinieri TPC collectively,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
John Merryman,
Neil Brodie,
Jason Felch,
Larry Rothfield,
Dick Drent,
Karl von Habsburg,
Restitution,
World War II,
Lord Colin Renfrew,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities,
Paolo Giorgio Ferri,
Stuttgart Detective Ernst Schöller,
Francesco Rutelli,
Amelia,
Ralph Frammolino,
ARCA,
Italy,
Norman Palmer,
Dr. Joris Kila,
Dr. George H. O. Abungu
