Resources

Interviews

• Recent interviews of Arthur Tompkins by Kim Hill on Radio NZ (and you’ll find more if you search “Arthur Tompkins” on the RNZ website)
  • 6 July 2019
  • 10 November 2018
  • 14 July 2018
  • 7 April 2018

• Penelope Jackson: interviewed on Radio NZ about “Females in the Frame”

Publications by the Trustees

Dr Penelope Jackson MNZM:

• “Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia” (2025)
• “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019)
• “Art Thieves, Fakers and Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story” (2016)

Professor Ngarino Ellis:

• Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art by Deidre Brown, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, and Ngarino Ellis (2024)
• A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngati Porou Carving, 1830–1930 (2016)

Judge Arthur Tompkins:

• “Provenance Research Today: Principles, Practice, Problems” (2020)
• “Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime During War” (2018)
• Editor of “Art Crime and Its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals” (2016)

Louisa Joblin:

• “Te Hokinga Mai – The Return: Repatriation of Māori and Moriori Ancestral Remains from International Institutions Home to New Zealand” published in the Journal of Art Crime (2021)
• Contributing author of a chapter on Arts Law in “Art Crime and Its Prevention: A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals” (2016)
• Co-author with Judge Arthur Tompkins of “Resolving Nazi-era looted arts disputes by ADR processes” for the Australian Alternative Dispute Resolution Bulletin (2016)

Reviews

• Review of “Females in the Frame” on the ARCA blog
• “Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime During War” – Arthur Tompkins, 2018
• Review of “Plundering Beauty” on the ARCA blog

Other

• Code of Practice for Artists and Dealers in Aotearoa New Zealand (Artists Alliance, 2007)
• Art Crime papers at the University of Auckland – 200 level and 300 level
• Register here for the Stolen Beauty Art Crime Tour of Europe (a 15-day tour in June and July 2020, starting in Paris and ending in Rome, visiting masterworks that have in the past been stolen – sometimes more than once – but are now back on public display)