Best of luck to ARCA representatives Noah Charney, Erik Nemeth, and Virginia Curry who round out the panel, "The Influence of Scholarship and the Media on Art Crime" at today's panel sessions of the American Society of Criminology's 2009 Meeting. The panel's abstract is the following:
Academia and the media are critical to raising awareness of cultural heritage and promoting protection of cultural property. The effectiveness with which scholars and journalists provide knowledge and information on the visual arts has also influenced the illicit market in fine art and antiquities. This panel will examine how scholarly and general knowledge of the market value of artworks abets art crime. The talks will provide historical perspectives on crimes against individual works of fine art and collections of antiquities. Case studies will illustrate how scholarly and popular understandings of the value of art incite fraud and theft. The scale of precipitating offenses ranges from orchestrations of thefts of individual artworks to nationwide looting. The talks will provide for a rich discussion on how misuses and misunderstandings of the value of artworks motivate offenses.
My fellow participants' topics include "The Influence of Scholarship on the Strategic Value of Art" (Erik Nemeth), "Scholarship and Entitlement: Theft by Those Most Trusted"
(Virginia Curry), and "Art Theft and the Media: The Inspiration and Abetting of Art Theft by the News Media" (Noah Charney). I am very grateful to Noah who has volunteered to read my paper in absentia as I am unable to attend the meeting.
To read my paper refer to here: "The Motivations Behind Art Crime and the Effects of an Institution's Response". Opening this document requires a password, email me at mark@artcrime.info to request one.
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