Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:34:17 +0000
I was searching your site for information on when or if Museums utilize Metal Detectors or xray scanners to augment access control for the public.Is this a trend or do Museums tend not to use these devices? My question is specific for Museums in the United States. With the recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. our CAO is considering installing a metal detector during high profile andsignificantly religious exhibits. I thought I would gather some information to assist in the decision making. Thank you. Send your response to my email at: jcampus@bowers.org From: "George Liddell" geon66@hotmail.com To: securma@xs4all.nl Subject: Secure Storage Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:03:57 +0100
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Historic Cabin Destroyed by Arson
A fire destroyed a 300-year-old log cabin being converted into a museum, and the fire marshal's office said Monday that it was a case of arson. The cabin was one of the oldest in central Maryland's Howard County and had been moved to Rockburn Branch Park just two weeks ago. The fire was started Sunday morning in the first floor of the two-story cabin, the fire marshal's office said in a statement. "I am so sick to my stomach," said Mary Catherine Cochran, president of Preservation Howard County. "It is a significant, significant loss. I can't believe it." The cabin's original section was believed to date back to between 1696 and 1710, with an additional room and loft likely completed in about 1845. It measured about 20 feet by 14 feet, with hand-hewn logs and beams, a granite fireplace and a chimney of hand- molded bricks. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ From: art-theft@webtv.net (Saz Productions Inc.) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:21:56 -0500 (CDT) To: securma@xs4all.nl Subject:
Fwd: Stolen Arylic Sculptures.
Earlier this month 4 acrylic sculptures titled "GhostRiders" was stolen along with some paintings from a collector in Calgary, Alberta Canada. These were from an edition of 350. Numbers 3,4,5,6 respectively, Each is 51 inches long by 21 by 10 and weighs about 80 lbs each. Valued at $25,000.00 each. These are the first Western Acrylics ever cast. They were cast by Meisner Acrylic Casting. Signed and numbered by both artists, Andrew S. Bogya and Arno. Dated 2000.
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Theft forces Wisconsin artist to cancel appearance at Plaza fair
By CHRISTINE VENDEL - The Kansas City Star Date: 09/24/01 22:15
Larry Jameson, an artist from Wisconsin, drove to Kansas City last week to participate for the first time in the Country Club Plaza Art Fair. But Jameson had to cancel his appearance after a thief stole his 1990 GMC Suburban containing 63 pieces of his wood-turning artwork. The vehicle was found Saturday on fire in Blue Valley Park in Kansas City. The pieces -- valued at more than $36,000 -- had been taken from the vehicle before the fire. Jameson said Monday that he wants his artwork back. He said the pieces represented three or four years of work. Many were shaped like vases, ranging in size from 5 inches to 18 inches in diameter, and were made from different types of wood. "They were museum-quality objects," said Jameson, from Union Grove, Wis. "Each piece was one of a kind." Jameson said he parked his Suburban in front of the lobby entrance of his hotel in the 9100 block of East 39th Street Thursday night. The next morning, the Suburban was gone. A trailer Jameson usually pulled behind the Suburban was not attached to the vehicle and remained in the parking lot. It contained his tent, pedestals and other items to display his art. "The Plaza Art Fair is a nice fair and I was looking forward to being in it," Jameson said. "It's a real shame."
Anyone with information should call the Tips Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS. http://www.kcstar.com/
Dealer Says He Handled Nazi Machine
LONDON (AP) - A former antiques dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to handling a stolen Nazi code machine that British agents captured during World War II and used to decipher German messages. Dennis Yates, 58, changed his plea and admitted to handling stolen goods. He was ordered by Aylesbury Crown Court to surrender his passport and report to his local police station daily until his next court appearance, scheduled for Oct. 19. The Enigma machine, valued at $148,000, disappeared in April from a glass display cabinet at the former codebreakers' base in Bletchley Park, 50 miles northwest of London. Hundreds of visitors had been attending an open house there when a volunteer noticed the machine was missing and contacted police. Following months of ransom demands, the machine was sent to a British TV journalist, and then returned to Bletchley Park.
Yates had previously claimed that all he did was ``broker the return'' of the machine, believed to be one of only two in existence. He claimed he was acting as a go-between for an Indian client he had never met. Initially, Yates had also faced charges of blackmailing the director of Bletchley Park over the return of the machine. But the court ordered that charge to remain on file, which means it will not be acted upon now but could be pursued at a later date. The Enigma G312 looks like a typewriter in a box. It was used by the Nazis to encode top- secret messages until it was captured by the Royal Navy. British intelligence agents cracked the code, which historians credit for shortening the war by as much as two years. The messages they deciphered provided crucial information during the Battle of the Atlantic, the desert campaign against German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the preparations for D-Day.
The only other Enigma G312 machine on public display is at the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, Md. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/ The Art Newspaper.com
The Art Newspaper tis week's top stories:
THE SMOKE AND THE RISK
NEW YORK. Just days after the attacks, AXA Nordstern Art Insurance, the world's largest art insurer, estimated art losses from the World Trade Center attacks at more than $100 million. In preparation for the largest volume of art claims relating to a single event, the firm had already put aside some $20 million. "But this is in the towers only," said president and ceo Dietrich von Frank, "the question is how much art might be in other buildings or affected by the clean up". http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7494
ART IS NOT THE ONLY THING
NEW YORK. As well as being an icon of Western capitalism, the World Trade Center also housed studios of aspiring young artists. Among those who occupied space was Michael Richards, a young installation artist from Miami. He was based up on 92nd floor in Tower One and would often stay overnight rather than try and return to his place out in Queens. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7493
ANTIQUITIES DEALER GETS READY FOR COURT
NEW YORK. Usually the stuff of dry academic debate and arid finger pointing, the controversy over cultural patrimony, or who has the right to own and exhibit the art and artefacts of other nations, has dramatically sharpened with the indictment of New York antiquities dealer Frederick Schultz. Issued on 15 July by the US Attorney for the Southern district of New York. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7492
SIFTING THROUGH IT ALL
NEW YORK. Not even 48 hours after the World Trade Center attack, word went out from City Hall to resume the cultural routine miles away uptown. Broadway turned its lights back on. Museums which had closed the day of the bombing, reopened in response to requests from Schuyler Chapin, commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs. Many of them waived their admission fees. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7491
TRYING TO BE PAID TWICE
NEW YORK. The heirs of Paul Rosenberg, the art dealer whose collection was stolen by Nazis when he fled France in 1940, have asked the New York State trial court to dismiss the $6.8 million claim against them brought by author Hector Feliciano, who is seeking compensation for allegedly helping recover some of the works of art. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7490
ARTNET SURVIVES INTACT
NEW YORK. In the confusion that followed the terrorist strikes on New York and Washington, The Art Newspaper received calls from around the world asking whether Artnet’s employees, in offices a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center, were safe. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7470
THREE DIRECTORS GO TO COURT TO END CHICAGO MUSEUM'S ISOLATION
CHICAGO. Three members of the board of directors of the Terra Foundation for the Arts have sued the remaining board, the Illinois Attorney General and the Foundation itself, which oversees the $175 million Terra Collection of American Art and $259 million in other assets, over a settlement to an earlier lawsuit which the plaintiffs say is unlawful. The protesting directors, Paul Tucker, Judith Terra and former U.S. Republican Senator Alan K. Simpson (Wyo.), are seeking a declaratory judgment from the Cook County Illinois trial court halting implementation of the settlement. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7451
I WANT YOU: THE APPEAL OF THE SURREAL
LONDON. Its influence on pop culture and advertising has probably been greater than that of any other modern movement, but Surrealism has not been the subject of a major exhibition in London since the Hayward Gallery’s Surrealism and Dada show 23 years ago. And despite its subsequent influence on major modern movements such as Abstract Expressionism and on contemporary stars such as Louise Bourgeois, its critical reputation has fluctuated wildly over the past half century. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7450