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The app that turns you into an art crime sleuth The world’s biggest law enforcement agency wants the public’s help in identifying and preventing the sale of illicitly trafficked cultural goods. By Kelly Horan Globe Staff,Updated May 13, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Interpol's ID-Art app enables mobile access to its stolen art database and permits users to create art collection inventories and document at-risk cultural sites.INTERPOL Private art crime sleuths the world over have just been given a new tool to help identify and stop the sale of stolen art and looted antiquities: ...

A McGill phonebooth and the largest art heist in Canadian history The story of the “Skylight Capers” and the 1972 robbery of the Montreal Fine Arts Museum Alexandre Hinton, Multimedia Editor An ill-omened spirit fell over Montreal in the early morning hours of September 4, 1972. The city was in a state of despair as the public mourned the loss of 37 Wagon Wheel club-goers in an atrocious fire. Few celebrated the Montreal Expos victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The top song on the Canadian charts for that week was “Alone Again,” a morbid ballad composed by Irish singer-songwriter G...

How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago ​ By Ateet Sharma ( IANS) | Published on ​ Thu, Mar 11 2021 12:42 IST | ​ 0 Views   How FBI & Twitter thread helped Nepal recover statue stolen 37 years ago.. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi , March 11, Thirty-seven years after it was stolen and subsequently landed in the US, a stone stele of Lakshmi-Narayan, depicting the Hindu deities of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, is finally returning to its original home in Patan, a city located just across the Bagmati river from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Las...

BART looks to increase unarmed crisis staff as part of progressive police bureau KGO Share: SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- BART Police have announced a new plan to increase the number of crisis intervention specialists at stations throughout their system. The plan, discussed at the BART Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, is an expansion of a program first announced last year under the newly formed Progressive Policing and Community Engagement Bureau. In total, BART Police plan to employ 20 crisis intervention specialists along with 10 other unarmed police ambassadors. The bureau will also includ...

Professor of art crime. he joins us from new york. thank you for be being with us. in single words here, in sort of broad brush strokes, why is this temple so important? if it is completely destroyed, what have we lost? >> we've lost a great amount. this was one of the best-reserved temples of the ancient world. it was dedicated in a.d. 32 when jesus may have still been walking the earth. it was used as a christian church and then as a mosque until the 1920s. so it's really an example of the type of synchronism of religion that isis is seeking to destroy. >> that appears to be one of the motiv...