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Argus CPC Sponsors Art Law Conference 2024
Argus Cultural Property Consultants is pleased to sponsor this year’s Art Law Conference at the Brooklyn Law School. This annual conference is organized by the Center for Art Law, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that offers educational resources and programming for the advancement of a vibrant arts and law community. The various case studies presented at the conference illustrate…
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Major Recovery of a Stolen Work in Romania
On Friday, Christ Church Art Gallery, Oxford, together with the Thames Valley Police, announced the recovery of one of three paintings stolen in March of 2020 from the famous campus. Salvator Rosa’s A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan was taken in a daring overnight heist on the very evening that the university went…
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The Everyday Security Threat to Museums
It’s not just about theft. Far from it. While big heists grab the headlines and documentaries (and book deals, I should humbly add), there exists a much more common threat to museum collections, and one that is far more difficult to prevent—vandalism. In 2021 an interesting piece in the Rochester City newspaper, by David Andreatta, brought this issue…
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