Dirty Art
The Internet is flush with purloined books, lifted antiquities and art forgeries. Dirty art is big business.
Resources
FBI Art Theft Program(fbi.gov)
Art Loss Register(artloss.com)
Reporting Stolen Property(museum-security.org)
This Web Site has been developed to assist Police Forces, across the United Kingdom, in the recovery and return of Stolen Antiques and to enable Auction Houses, Collectors and dealers to comply with the code of Due Diligence.(findstolenart.com)
American Association of Museums, Nazi-Era Provenance Portal(nepip.org)
Central Registry of Information (Europe)(lootedart.com)
Stolen Works of Art(interpol.int)
Art crime : protecting art, protecting artists and protecting consumers(aic.gov.au)
Art Fraud at Ebay and Yahoo(paulinewalshjacobson.com)
Internet Art Fraud Forgery and Counterfeit Artworks Sold in the Millions(blogs.ebay.co.uk)
Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history.(metafilter.com)
THE ILLICIT ANTIQUITIES RESEARCH CENTRE(mcdonald.cam.ac.uk)
The SAFE online resource that highlights issues related to the vulnerability of our shared cultural heritage to looting and the illicit antiquities trade.(savingantiquities.org)
Reference
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, Miles Harvey
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, Edward Dolnick
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft, Simon Houpt
Fakes and Forgeries: The True Crime Stories of History's Greatest Deceptions: The Criminals, the Scams, and the Victims, Brian Innes
The Fake: Forgery and its Place in Art, Sndor Dunai
False Impressions, Thomas Hoving
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