This book explores the untold history of women, art, and crime. It has long been widely accepted that women have not played an active role in the art crime world, or if they have, it has been the part of the victim or peacemaker. Women, Art, and Crime overturns this understanding, as it investigates the female criminals who have destroyed, vandalised, stolen, and forged art, as well as those who have conned clients and committed white-collar crimes in their professional occupations in museums, libraries, and galleries. Whether prompted by a desire for revenge, for money, the instinct to protect a loved one, or simply as an act of quality control, this book delves into the various motivations and circumstances of women art criminals from a wide range of countries, including the UK, the USA, New Zealand, Romania, Germany, and France. Through a consideration of how we have come to perceive art crime and the gendered language associated with its documentation, this pioneering study questions why women have been left out of the discourse to date and how, by looking specifically at women, we can gain a more complete picture of art crime history.

This book is a study of the history, role and significance of copying art. Copies have enjoyed a different status from authentic artworks and though often acknowledged, very rarely have they been considered collectively as a genre in their own right. This volume showcases a variety of examples—from copies of famous artworks made and used as props in movies to those made innocently by student artists as part of their training. Examining the motivations for making copies, and reflecting on the reception of copies, is central to this book. Copies have historically filled voids in collections, where some sadly languish, and have become a curatorial burden. In other cases, having a copy assists in conservation projects and fills the place of a lost work. Ultimately by interrogating a copy’s role and intent we might ask ourselves if viewing a copy changes our experience and perception of an artwork.

A tender story celebrating the natural world and our place within it, featuring lyrical verse and bold, tactile paper-collage illustrations. A tender and lyrical story celebrating the natural world and our place within it, Wild Trails to the Sea follows a coastal family as seasons change and children grow. With a hopeful refrain, a parent shares their dreams for their young ones, urging them to pay attention to every bit of magic the world has to offer, from watching a mayflower bloom to skipping pebbles on an icy pond, encouraging a lifelong love of natural spaces. Told in gentle free-verse with luminous, tactile illustrations, this nostalgic story celebrates raising children in the great outdoors and will leave them enchanted with the lemon-burst of spruce tips, the steam of saltwater bonfires, and white rocks as vast as the moon. The debut children's picture book by celebrated Halifax-based editor and co-author of Amazing Atlantic Canadian Women and York-based, Nova Scotia-born paper-collage artist Elena Skoreyko Wagner, Wild Trails to the Sea is a love letter to the earth, the sky, and the se--and to their future stewards.

This collection of 25 stories were written with a fondness for Singapore and its people. The author draws from her childhood years growing up in 1970s Singapore, and all these years later, there isn' t a day when she does not recall a place, event, person or object from that time in her life.Though written by an outsider - this collection, like those previously published and those yet to be written, add to the melting pot of Singapore literature.

"Art crime is soaring. Every year as much as $10 billion worth of artworks are stolen. Many more are vandalised, damaged or destroyed. Added to this is a flourishing world of fakes and forgeries, often sold for millions of dollars and hanging in the world's most prestigious galleries. If you think this is happening only in Paris, London and New York, prepare to be surprised as art curator Penelope Jackson reveals the underbelly of the New Zealand art world"--Back cover.

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Memo is Australia's leading magazine of critical writing on contemporary art and culture-rigorous, provocative, and essential for those who take contemporary culture seriously. In issue 3 we present a focus on Maria Kozic, whose work has long unsettled the artworld's uneasy relationship with pop culture. Three deep-dive essays unpack the irreverent, uncompromising, and sometimes graphic logic of Kozic's art, whose work refuses easy categorisation, forcing pop into stranger, darker territory. Issue 3 also includes a special Art & Crime focus, bringing together leading critics and artists confronting how stolen wages, incarceration, and colonial violence shape Australian art. Elsewhere, Catherine Liu, one of the world's most unsparing critics of cultural gatekeeping, dismantles the moral posturing of "political" message art, and provocative philosopher Slavoj ¿i¿ek unravels Donald Trump's viral generative AI video "Trump Gaza" posted on Truth Social last month. Dale Frank's slippery persona and autistic mythos come under scrutiny, while Apple's "smooth aesthetic" design empire reveals an unexpected link to the writhing figures of the ancient sculpture Laocoön and His Sons. Wang Bing's latest film expands his brutal factory-world saga, and in fiction, Biddy Mahy follows an art history student watching his first love resurface-this time as Larry Gagosian's teenage muse. This issue also features pieces on D Harding, Mark Rothko, Madonna Staunton, Sidney Nolan, reviews from across Australia, and much more.