The app that turns you into an art crime sleuth
The worldâs biggest law enforcement agency wants the publicâs 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.
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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 smartphone app that gives them instant, real-time access to Interpolâs international database of stolen art.
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 Gilbert O Sullivan.
Meanwhile, three thieves were preparing to execute the largest art heist in Canadian
Long Read: Returning heritage Filed on April 30, 2021 | Last updated on April 30, 2021 at 10.12 am
Gifted, looted or stolen Britain has a large number of priceless artefacts from India, other former colonies and elsewhere. but now, some are on their way back home as demands grow
Stepping into India House in central London is like stepping back in time. Designed by the legendary architect Herbert Baker and inaugurated by King George V in 1930, the home of India’s high commission is a blend of change and continuity, with paintings, portraits, busts, artefacts and symbols of modernity set in the high-domed, colonial-style structure. There have been 27 Indian high commissioners since independence in 1947, but rarely have they been as busy as recent envoys, who, since 2016, have overseen the return of several priceless objects that were stolen from India and ended up in the antiques art market in London. The returns happened in the context of intense debates about the wid
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Controversial art dealer s daughter will return over 100 antiquities to Cambodia
Written by Oscar Holland, CNN
When art dealer Douglas Latchford was charged with wire fraud, smuggling and conspiracy, US prosecutors not only alleged that he had trafficked stolen Cambodian antiquities he had built a career on it.
The indictment, brought before a New York court in 2019, claimed the British collector was part of an organized looting network that faked records for items it had taken or illicitly excavated from archaeological sites like Angkor Wat. Considered one of the world s foremost authorities on art from the Khmer Empire, which ruled between the 9th and 15th centuries, Latchford had served as a conduit for stolen treasures since the 1970s, according to court documents.