gister.International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR)The International Foundation for Art Research, known to cops and collectors far and wide as IFAR IFAR maintains an invaluable repository of data on missing goods ranging from masterworks to mind-boggling kitsch. Their computers, which house a clever program for storing and finding images of stolen valuables, now show more than 60,000 items carried away from homes and museums and other sites around the world in recent years For 25 years these issues have occupied IFAR, a modestly funded, nonprofit enterprise IFAR keeps track of as much as possible and often plays a role in recovering a purloined picture.IFAR not only uses its computers when it comes to lost art. The foundation also publishes its own newsletter. IFAReports, the foundations newsletter about thefts and recoveries is also a main part of the foundations success. (Dudar) The use of this newsletter gives the public information about missing artwork. IFAReports also provides news of recoveries, but it is the vanished pieces that use up the most ink and paper. (Dudar) Although originally founded as a consumer protection agency against art forgery, IFAR has emerged into a main art theft prevention foundation.Art Loss RegisterWith a growing emphasis on due diligence when buying and selling art, the Art Loss Register of London is becoming an effective tool to combat fraud and recover lost and stolen pieces, users and providers of this service contend. (Attrino) The art loss register started in 1991 as a solution by the art and the insurance worlds to do something about the level of art theft, trade in stolen art and the lack of recoveries. The register created a database containing lists of stolen and missing art and antiques. (Schillingford) This database allows law enforcements to be able to view art that has been reported either stolen or missing. This not only aids law enforcement, but museums, auction houses, and buyer...
