"Investigating Art Crime" with Lynda Albertson

Stage Talks with Bellingcat

This week, we're back for the new year with a new topic, exploring the nexus of art theft, trafficking, and intelligence. We spoke with Lynda Albertson from the Association for Research into Crimes Against Art about the process of collecting and analysing information related to art crimes.

How can open source research help tackle the world's cultural crimes?

The talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on Thursday January 16th 2025. Music featured is courtesy of Artlist.

Links mentioned:

In our Discord Server you can find our art-crime channel: https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat

ARCA: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/

Lynda's example one: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/bellingcat-stage-talk-1/

Lynda's example two: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/bellingcat-stage-talk-2/

Lynda's example three: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/bellingcat-stage-talk-3/

Bellingcat investigations and guides focused on old polaroid analysis: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/04/solving-world-war-ii-photo-mysteries-with-open-source-techniques/ ,

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/08/09/using-new-tech-to-investigate-old-photographs/

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/16/untangling-the-mystery-of-the-worlds-first-rooftop-solar-panel/

Interpol Stolen Works of Art Database: https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Cultural-heritage-crime/Stolen-Works-of-Art-Database

India Pride Project: https://x.com/indiaprideproj?lang=en

Lost Arts of Nepal: https://www.facebook.com/lostartsofnepal/

The Antiquities Coalition: https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/

ARCA training: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/postgraduate-certificate-programmes/

ARCA conference: https://www.artcrimeresearch.org/annual-interdisciplinary-art-crime-conference/