Art Crime & ARCA: Dr. Noah Charney About Art History, Art Recovery and Art Crime Education

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SHOW NOTES:

03:00 Dr. Charney’s interest in being a playwright led to foundation of Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)

05:00 Charney’s first book

05:30 first conference to bring academics and art police together

06:30 criminalistics applied in Slovenia - a balanced policing system that merges the theories of criminology and practice of criminal investigation, forensics & police procedure

11:00 ARCA’s summer conference on art crime in central Italy

14:00 Italy’s Carabinieri Art Squad

17:50 ARCA’s CEO Linda Albertson

18:30 Albertson’s blog post about return of objects to Cambodia by Doug Latchford’s Estate

19:00 ARCA’s blog

21:30 recommendations to those who want to return looted art or cultural heritage objects

24:00 Missing Masterpieces exhibition

25:35 thief of Van Gogh’s Parsonage arrested though painting is still missing

25:50 tip on whereabouts of Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s The White Duck

26:20 panel of Ghent Altarpiece stolen in 1934 is still missing and is an ongoing open case in Ghent, Belgium

27:45 a work is ‘extant’ if its location is known

28:25 Justice Cycle panels by Rogier van der Weyden referenced in Charney’s Museum of Lost Art

29:00 The Deposition in the Prado in Madrid is now considered van der Weyden’s masterpiece

29:10 van der Weyden considered The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald from the Justice cycle to be his masterpiece

29:45 the Justice cycle destroyed in a fire circa early 17th C.

29:55 survivor bias - 2018 book The Museum of Lost Art

31:10 The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Made the Art World? also has a negative space approach

31:55 2017 book The Collector of Lives focuses on the life of Giorgio Vasari

33:00 rivalry of artists in Caravaggio’s 1599 The Calling of St. Matthew - artist used a duplicate of Sistine Chapel Ceiling’s hand of God by Michelangelo to paint hand of Jesus

34:15 Charney’s online discussion of Caravaggio’s 1599 The Calling of St. Matthew

34:50 Book of Drawings, twelve folios by Giorgio Vasari

36:05 Vinci’s Battle of Angiati; Vasari’s use of false walls to preserve works he valued like da Vinci’s Battle of Angiati

37:15 third work would be the Justice Cycle

37:30 Charney’s preference for work in situ

39:00 Vasari’s use of false walls to cover paintings

39:50 Vasari’s false wall in front of da Vinci’s Battle

40:50 Charney’s recommendations of books published by ARCA

41:10 Context Matters: Collating the Past by David W.J. Gill - essays on antiquities, looting and archaeology

41:20 Transnational Art Crime by ARCA academic director Edgar Telehouse

41:45 The Secret Collector: the Lost Art Collection of Erich Šlomovič by Leon Pogelick and Slavko Pregl

42:45 Charney’s The Art Thief’s Handbook

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