This is the investigative journalistic blog of Articolo 9 Art Consultation. Here you can find daily news and important info on the protection of artistic and cultural patrimony, criminality in the global art market, and other signifcant areas such as art markets, exhibitions, artists and cultural events.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Precious and rare "Lysippos of Fano" statue in Getty Villa: The efforts to repatriate it. La Voce di New York; by Charles Vincent Sabba



Precious and rare "Lysippos of Fano" statue in the Getty Villa: the efforts to epatriate it.

La Voce di New York

Charles Vincent Sabba

The five-decades-long legal battle between the Italian government who want it back and the museum that claims it wasn't looted. 

https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2022/12/01/precious-and-rare-lysippos-of-fano-statue-in-getty-villa-the-efforts-to-repatriate-it/ 

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

New Film Trailer: Defending the Peninsula

 Please view our new trailer and PLEASE subscribe to our Youtube channel: Articolo 9 Consulting. We will be posting many new film shorts and films regarding art theft and art crimes! Italy is a major source country of the world's billion dollar art markets and is also an epicenter of art theft, looting, illicit trafficking and loss and destruction of its precious artistic patrimony. In this investigative reporting film we discuss this problem in depth. The film Defending the Peninsula was one of the three finalists in the 2022 Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum.

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Friday, November 18, 2022

Short Film Clip of Sabba’s Film Defending the Peninsula

 Here is a short film clip of the film Defending the Peninsula which was produced and directed by Charles Vincent Sabba. This is an exerpt of the hour long film that was one of the three finalists in the Russo Brothers Film Forum. Please subscribe to our Youtube channel after viewing this. There will be many new film shorts concerning art theft, art crimes and cultural property protection shown on this  channel very soon. 


Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Climate Activists, Keep Your Hands off Our Art

https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2022/10/26/climate-activists-keep-your-hands-off-our-art/ 



https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2022/10/26/climate-activists-keep-your-hands-off-our-art/

La Voce di New York

26 October , 2022

Climate Activists, Keep Your Hands off Our Art!

Unlike that of the US, the Italian Constitution makes sacred both Nature and art; they are both part of the human patrimony

By Charles Vincent Sabba

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Defending the Penninsula - A Film by Charles Vincent Sabba

 

The Russo Brothers: Two of America’s greatest directors, producers and screenwriters. 

Our film for the Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum Grant is finally done and submitted.

It is still not released publicly yet. We will release it on Sept 30 after the Russo Brothers Italian-American Film Forum completes the judging process and picks the 3 runner ups. After that you will be able to view it on our Articolo 9 Consulting VIMEO account. 

This has been a busy 5 months since we received the grant back in April. We did 2 U.S. coasts: Malibu/Pacific Palisades, California and New York and Boston; then 2 Italian coasts: Cerveteri, Roma and Fano. We interviewed archeologists, cultural patrimony experts, two mayors in Italy and the lawyer in Fano, Italy who is fighting to get the Lisippo Bronze of Fano repatriated to Italy (currently held by the Getty Villa)! In this film we cover the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery and Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Italian art purchasing habits through Bernard Berenson, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Euphronious Krater case, and the current legal and moral battle bewreeen the Italian Government and the Getty Villa for the ownership and return of the Lisippo di Fano (which the Getty calls the Getty Bronze). The Russo Brothers chose 7 grant awardees out of 280 applications. Below is a description of our competition (it is going to be hard to beat the kid with the pizzas!๐Ÿคฃ). But winning isn’t important, We Are honored to be in the top 7 and very happy to have an opportunity  to spread our message about Article 9 of the Italian Constitution as well as the battle for the Lisippo Bronze.

The recipients of the 2022 grant awards were:
 
Charles Vincent Sabba, whose film “Defending the Peninsula” investigates art theft and antiquities looting in Italy and how law enforcement in both the USA and Italy work to protect the artistic and cultural patrimony of Italy’s 70% share of the world’s great art.

Philip Amara, whose yet untitled film examines the history and contributions Italian Americans have made to the comic book medium which has spawned so many of today’s blockbuster films.
 
Stefano Da Fre`, whose film, Stolen Dough, recounts the billion-dollar legal battle begun by a 13-year-old Italian immigrant against one of the largest pizza chains in America.
 
Agata De Santis, whose documentary film, Rossi & Company, explores the history of the 112-year-old Italian American gift shop in NYC’s Little Italy, and the struggle its 71 year old proprietor is having to keep its storied doors open.
 
Rose Lytle, whose documentary film, Speak American, focuses on the challenges facing younger Italian Americans today to preserve and perpetuate our culture.
 
Charles Marsala, whose film, de Pinedo’s 1927 Four Continents Flight, explores the aeronautic accomplishments of the Italian who crossed the Atlantic two months before Lindbergh.
 
Anthony Palmiotto, whose narrative film, The Football Wedding, highlights a
long-forgotten Italian American wedding tradition through a nostalgic romantic comedy.
 
Patricia Santangelo, whose documentary film, Lucky Corner, celebrates the life and accomplishments of the family’s patriarch, Alfred E. Santangelo, one of the Italian American community’s earliest political champions.
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This grant is an amazing opportunity and it is extremely generous of the sponsors. The Russo Brothers Italian American Film Forum is sponsored by four entities: the National Italian American Foundation, the Italian Sons and Daughters of America, the Russo Brothers and AGBO.
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Sunday, July 3, 2022

Charles Vincent Sabba, artist and art world investigative reporter, inside the Gardner Museum in Boston

 Charles Vincent Sabba, artist and art world investigative reporter, inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.



Charles Vincent Sabba’s Intro

  Charles Vincent Sabba’s introduction filmed in the library of Salmagundi Club located at 47 5th Avenue, New York.



“Dr. No” the Nefarious Figure Who Commissions Art Thefts

 “Dr. No” the Nefarious Figure Who Commissions Art Thefts: Fact or Fancy? https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/arts/2023/02/11/dr-no-the-nefarious...