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January 2014
ENGLISH READING CLUB
ENJOY READING! NOAH CHARNEY The art thief
NOAH CHARNEY () (27 Nov. 1979, New Haven, Cunneticut, USA)
-------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY Noah Charney is an American art historian and novelist. He is the author of The Art Thief, a mystery novel about a series of thefts from European museums and churches, and is the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art. His parents, a psychiatrist and a professor of French Literature at Yale University were, in his words, “of the class of Americans who idealize Europe”, and as a youth he spent most of his summers in France. Noah Charney holds Masters degrees in art history from The Courtauld Institute and University of Cambridge , and a PhD from University of Ljubljana. He is Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Rome, a Visiting Lecturer for Brown University abroad programs, and is the founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group on issues in art crime (www.artcrimeresearch.org). His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Tatler among others. He has appeared on radio and television, including BBC, ITV, CNBC, ... and he is in constant demand as a lecturer. Charney is the author of numerous academic and popular articles, including a regular column in ArtInfo called “The Secret History of Art” and a weekly interview series in The Daily Beast called “How I Write.” His first novel, The Art Thief (Atria 2007), is currently translated into seventeen languages and is a best-seller in five countriesHe lives in Italy and Slovenia, and lectures internationally in the subjects of art history and art crime.
http://noahcharney.smugmug.com
----------------------------------SELECTED WORKS
♦ The Art thief, 2007. (Novel). ♦ Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World, 2009. (Essays). ♦ Museum Time is a series of guidebooks, made into a phone app, to the museums of Spain, with editions for Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and the Basque Country, 2010. ♦ Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece, a history of the world’s most stolen artwork, The Ghent Altarpiece, 2010. ♦ The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World’s Most Famous Painting, book-length essay on the history, crimes, and mysteries surrounding Leonardo’s painting, 2011.
UPCOMING BOOKS
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The Book of Forgery is an illustrated history of forgery, fakes, and fraud, 2014.
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The Invention of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Secret History of Art, 2015.
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art thief (2007)
Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night.
Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Genevieve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's great treasure, "White-on-White" by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich.
London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's newest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased for 6.3 million pounds. While three separate thefts are simultaneously investigated in three separate cities, the apparently unrelated crimes have more in common than anyone imagines. In each city, the authorities enlist the help of a renowned art investigator, police inspectors, and Scotland Yard. A trail of bizarre clues and intellectual puzzles reveals forgeries, over-paintings, thefts, and double-crosses leading ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy.