Other Voices

Alison Hughes talks to Noah Charney, founder of the not-for-profit organization ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, about the crimes of art theft, looting and falsification. In recent months, Spain has suffered several significant thefts, of a 12th century illuminated manuscript in Santiago de Compostella and Roman mosaics in the province of Burgos. Noah Charney describes the people involved in art theft and the possibilities of recovering stolen works. ARCA's website is: www.artcrime.info (26/01/12).