About Noah Charney

Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than twenty books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Museum of Lost Art, which was the finalist for the 2018 Digital Book World Award.

He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana, as well as multimedia courses for Atlas Obscura, Yale, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery (UK) and Wondrium/The Teaching Company.

He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a ground-breaking research group (www.artcrimeresearch.org) and teaches on their annual summer-long Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection. He is often described as the world’s leading authority on art crime, and a New York Times Magazine feature in 2006 suggested that he had established the field of study.

He has written often for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper.

He is also a presenter on television and radio (including for the BBC) and is an award-winning podcast host.