Call for Papers

The New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust is a Charitable Trust which hosts a regular Art Crime Symposium, advances multi-disciplinary research into art crime and related issues, and encourages awareness of art crime in all its manifestations and forms, with a particular focus on the New Zealand environment.

Visit: https://artcrime.nz/

Call for Papers

For the 2026 Art Crime Symposium

To be held at the Auckland Art Gallery on Saturday 19 September 2026

The theme of the 2026 Symposium is:

‘The Cost of Art Crime’.

We invite submission of a 250-word abstract for a 20-minute in-person presentation (plus 10 minutes for Q & A), relating directly to the Symposium’s theme. Specific areas that we are seeking presenters for include:

·      Conservation

·      Public Art

·      Artificial Intelligence

·      Indigenous Art

Although we are a New Zealand organisation, we welcome papers that have a global reach.

Proudly sponsored by: Tompkins/Wake