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“The Most Famous Art Detective in the World” – with ex-FBI Legend Robert Wittman
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Summary
Robert Wittman (Website; Twitter) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his career and the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Bob recovered over $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property over the course of his career.
What You’ll Learn
Intelligence
- How the FBI’s Art Crime Team (ACT) was formed
- The intelligence angle when investigating provenance
- Living and working undercover abroad
- Museums & Intelligence
Reflections
- The importance of cultural property
- Questions of ownership and belonging
And much, much more …
Quotes of the Week
“The motivation for writing the book was to get the word out how important cultural heritage is. It really is important to make the public realize that this is an important program that should be supported by law enforcement both local and federal.” – Robert Wittman.
Resources
SURFACE SKIM
*Featured Resource*
- Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, R. Wittman (Crown Publishing, 2011)
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- Why art gets stolen time and again, R. Pryor, The Art Newspaper (2020) [Short article]
- FBI Art Theft Program, FBI, YouTube (2013) [6 min. video]
- What is cultural property?, Information and Heritage Inspectorate (n.d.) [Short article]
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Primary Sources
- Crystal Sphere, Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose, Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Concert, Collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- The Rosenberg Diary, Collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Museums and the theft of works of art (1973)
*Wildcard Resource*
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Summary
Robert Wittman (Website; Twitter) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his career and the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Bob recovered over $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property over the course of his career.
What You’ll Learn
Intelligence
- How the FBI’s Art Crime Team (ACT) was formed
- The intelligence angle when investigating provenance
- Living and working undercover abroad
- Museums & Intelligence
Reflections
- The importance of cultural property
- Questions of ownership and belonging
And much, much more …
Quotes of the Week
“The motivation for writing the book was to get the word out how important cultural heritage is. It really is important to make the public realize that this is an important program that should be supported by law enforcement both local and federal.” – Robert Wittman.
Resources
SURFACE SKIM
*Featured Resource*
- Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures, R. Wittman (Crown Publishing, 2011)
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- The Gambling Capital of the World: Intelligence, Las Vegas Style! with James Lockhart and Keith Michaels (2023)
- Venice’s Secret Service with Ioanna Iordanou (2023)
- 70th Anniversary of James Bond, Special with Alexis Albion on 007 (2023)
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*Beginner Resources*
- Why art gets stolen time and again, R. Pryor, The Art Newspaper (2020) [Short article]
- FBI Art Theft Program, FBI, YouTube (2013) [6 min. video]
- What is cultural property?, Information and Heritage Inspectorate (n.d.) [Short article]
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- Crystal Sphere, Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose, Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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- The Concert, Collection of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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- Museums and the theft of works of art (1973)
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Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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