Art Crime symposium

When you're buying art - especially old art - top of your check-list is the artwork's provenance. That thorny subject is the theme of the 4th New Zealand Art Crime Symposium in Wellington. Art crime isn't just theft by cat-burglars. For instance, the fractured history of a New Zealand Wars statue is one of the examples that'll be discussed at the Symposium, along with "Appropriation and censorship of New Zealand graphic design". And rather more sexy is The Story of the Fake Frances Hodgkins. That's what Linda Tyler, Associate Professor of Museums and Cultural Heritage at the University of Auckland, will be talking about, and she joins Lynn Freeman to discuss it, along with her colleague Dr Ngarino Ellis, senior Lecturer in Art History. The 4th annual New Zealand Art Crime Symposium "Provenance Matters" is on at the City Gallery Wellington on Saturday the 22nd of September.