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duCret Fundraiser: Creative Offenses: Art Theft Lecture and Reception
05 20 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Join us for The Creative Offenses: Art Theft Lecture. A Fundraiser to restore the front garden and repair the parking lot.
In the Art World, it is not unusual for the truth to be stranger than fiction. Join us for a fascinating lecture on the crimes committed in the name of Art while at the same time supporting the beautification of duCret’s grounds.On May 20th at 6:30 pm, join us for the first in a series of lectures called Creative Offenses: Art Theft by Charles Vincent Sabba, devoted to the intrigue, the mystery and the danger surrounding crimes in the international art world.
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.
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.