Crime Writing Workshop in Ljubljana: Faculty

Professor Noah Charney
Noah Charney is a professor and an international best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, specializing in the fields of art history and art crime. He is the founder and president of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group (www.artcrime.info). His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Sunday Times (UK), BBC Radio, National Public Radio, El Pais, Corriere della Sera, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of numerous articles, including a regular column in the magazine ArtInfo called “The Secret History of Art.” He is the author of an international best-selling novel, The Art Thief (Atria/Simon & Schuster 2007), currently translated into seventeen languages. He is the editor of Art & Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World (Praeger 2009) and the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Art Crime, a biannual peer-reviewed journal on the subject. He is also the author of the Museum Time/De Museos series, guides to museums in Spain (geoPlaneta 2010) and the critically-acclaimed Stealing the Mystic Lamb: the True History of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece (PublicAffairs 2010). His newest book is The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World’s Most Famous Painting (ARCA Publications 2011). Trained in art history at The Courtauld Institute, Cambridge University, and University of Ljubljana, Charney has taught for many years, for Yale and Brown University, and in Cambridge, Florence, Rome, and Ljubljana. He is now a professor of art history at the American University of Rome and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana.