Lecturer:  Charles Vincent Sabba

Charles Vincent Sabba is a retired police captain and artist. He is an artistic patrimony resource person and an Art world investigative journalist with an art crimes column in the online newspaper La Voce di New York. He has been profiled in numerous publications, such as the Huffington Post, along with countless appearances in documentaries and television shows.

On average, the annual international art market is valued at over $65 billion, and the lucrative black market in cultural property is estimated to be $6 billion annually.

Art heists are an intriguing part of the art world; in most cases, truth is stranger than fiction.

Have you always wondered why someone would steal a famous work of Art and what they do with it? Or what other criminal activities occur in the art world? Then join us for the first in a series of lectures devoted to the intrigue, the mystery and the danger surrounding crimes in the international art world.

The future lectures will cover topics such as; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery, the illicit trade in antiquities, Italian cultural property protections, fakes and forgeries, money laundering, War Zone Art looting,  Holocaust Victims restitution, and Artists who have committed crimes.