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ALR Vetting at TEFAF profiled in the Financial Times

Published: Sunday 1st March 2020

Have you always ever how the ALR works with TEFAF and other fairs to stop stolen art and antiques being offered for sale? How does this work in practice? What happens to objects if they are found to have been stolen in the past? The ALR’s Manager of International Art Fairs, Will Korner, was interviewed […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 16 – Jan/Feb 2020

Published: Saturday 1st February 2020

What have we been up to? It might be quite late but wishing you all a very happy and successful 2020! Recovery of ancient Kushan sculpture makes international headlines We are delighted to announce that a Kushan sculpture that was stolen the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul in the 1990s will shortly be repatriated. […]

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Recovered Kushan sculpture to be repatriated to Afghanistan

Published: Friday 17th January 2020

The ALR has worked with the Metropolitan Police and the British Museum to return the sculpture to the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul The Art Loss Register (ALR) is pleased to announce the forthcoming repatriation of a sculpture to Afghanistan. The fragment has been recovered after being offered for sale at TimeLine Auctions, a […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 15 – October 2019

Published: Saturday 5th October 2019

What have we been up to? It has been an extremely busy (but successful!) few months at the ALR. A few event highlights in which we have been involved include… Yesterday… – The ALR’s Paul Exbrayat was in Lille presenting to an academic conference on “From identification to restitution of confiscated works during WW2”, organised […]

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ALR Quarterly Newsletter Issue 14 – June 2019

Published: Tuesday 11th June 2019

Stik stolen from Hackney Gardens As profiled in the Financial Times at the end of May, the Art Loss Register would like to warn the public and art trade that three artworks created by the renowned street artist Stik have been stolen from the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, a social enterprise garden in Hackney. The […]

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