The British Museum, through its trustees, has initiated legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice King's Bench Division against Peter Higgs, a former employee who served as a curator in the museum's department of Greek and Roman antiquities for a period spanning...
Over the last few days, a new dialogue has opened up in light of the theft of 1200 to 2000 objects by a senior Curator at the British Museum. Peter John Higgs, 56, was dismissed this summer, pending a police investigation, after several items were either "missing,...
A gang who stole mainly Chinese antiques valued at £57m ($79m) which included Chinese jade and African rhino horn from museums in Cambridge, Durham, Norwich and Lewes, East Sussex have been convicted. The 14 members from Cambridgeshire, Essex,...
Labour MP Graham Jones proposes Metal Theft Prevention BillThe Labour MP Graham Jones is to propose a private members bill in the House of Commons today that will call for more vigilant licensing for scrap metal dealers to prevent thieves from stealing high value...
Musée du Louvre: Christophe Léribault, who has long been regarded as one of the most capable figures in the French museum establishment, will replace Laurence des Cars, who resigned after a short, rocky tenure. She was the first woman to direct the Louvre in its...
The British Museum has confirmed it is recruiting a dedicated specialist to track down hundreds of missing antiquities, including gold jewellery, engraved gems, and semi-precious stones, believed to have been stolen over several years by its former head curator...
Milton Esterow, the formidable journalist who brought rigour, clarity, and an investigative edge to art reporting, has died in New York at the age of 97. A former New York Times reporter and the force behind the reinvigoration of ARTnews in the 1970s, Esterow reshaped...
A fourth Banksy artwork, unveiled in London today, appears to have been stolen. The elusive street artist, based in Bristol, shared an image on Instagram on Thursday depicting the silhouette of a wolf howling at the moon, painted on a satellite dish in Rye Lane,...
The FBI is investigating the sale of hundreds of suspected stolen treasures from the British Museum to buyers in the United States. The U.S. law enforcement agency has also facilitated the return of 268 items to the museum, which claims ownership of the artefacts sold...