October 30, 2001

CONTENTS:




- New on Museum Security Network website: FOSSIL PROTECTION LINKS, compiled by W. Douglas Boyce M.Sc, P.Geo.
http://www.museum-security.org/fossils.html
- Query: Salary Surveys security directors
- Emergency manual for historic buildings and collections
- This week in The Atlantic Monthly: The Curse of the Sevso Silver
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories



New on Museum Security Network website:

FOSSIL PROTECTION LINKS, compiled by W. Douglas Boyce M.Sc, P.Geo.

http://www.museum-security.org/fossils.html


From: "WRL" nhpi@mediaone.net
To: "Museum Security Network" securma@xs4all.nl
Subject:

Salary Surveys

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:22:43 -0500
Dear Group,
Can anyone tellme a salary range for a security director for a small to med size Museum in the northeast of USA?

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From: Peter Winsor peter.winsor@resource.gov.uk
Subject:

Emergency manual for historic buildings and collections

The EmmS Emergency Manual for Historic Buildings and Collections is now available as an Interactive CD Rom
The CD features The CD is published by the East Midlands Museums Service (United Kingdom), and is available at 29.50 UK pounds sterling (including VAT and postage and packing). Payment can be made either by cheque or banker's money order in UK pounds sterling.
If you have any queries please email emms@emms.org.uk.
Orders to:
East Midlands Museums Service
Courtyard Buildings
Wollaton Park
Nottingham NG8 2AE, UK

Peter Winsor
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
16 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9AA
Direct line +44 20-7273-1457
+44 20 7273 1444 (Switchboard)
Fax: +44 20 7273 1404


This week in The Atlantic Monthly:

The Curse of the Sevso Silver

A trove of ancient Roman treasure, discovered in the late 1970s under mysterious circumstances, has produced two decades of intrigue and mayhem, and tarnished almost everything it has touched
by Peter Landesman

This report by peter Landesman is not available on line, so those subscribers interested in reading this very extensive article need to buy the magazine.
http://www.theatlantic.com/


The Art Newspaper.com
http://www.theartnewspaper.com

This week's top stories:

BELLAGIO HOTEL BACKS OUT OF ITS LATEST BET ON ART

LAS VEGAS. Is the clock ticking away on Las Vegas's 15 minutes of fame as an outpost on the frontiers of the art exhibition circuit? According to the Detroit Institute of Art, the Bellagio Hotel has called off an exhibition of painting and sculpture that Detroit was planning to send to Las Vegas in the first half of 2002. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7912

BRITISH MUSEUM IN CRISIS: CUTS NEEDED TO STAVE OFF A SECOND £3 MILLION DEFICIT

LONDON. The British Museum (BM) is facing its most serious financial crisis in years. Fierce spending cuts are now being introduced to stave off a severe deficit. The museum’s deficit last year was just over £3 million and there would have been a similar deficit this year, unless drastic action had been taken. The cuts will lead to shorter opening hours, a rota of closed galleries, cancellation of exhibitions, reduced building maintenance, a reduction of education programmes, a freeze on most new posts, and the requirement for foreign borrowing institutions to meet the full costs of loans, including curatorial time. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7911

TATE BRITAIN: SUGAR BARON’S DREAM COMES TRUE

LONDON. British painting will finally be displayed in its full glory in London with the opening of the Centenary Development at Tate Britain on 1 November. This major internal expansion provides additional galleries in the north-west quadrant of the museum, as well as a new entrance in Atterbury Street. Display space has now been increased by 35% with the extra galleries and last year’s removal of modern international art to Tate Modern. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7910

YUGOSLAV GENERAL SURRENDERS TO HAGUE TRIBUNAL

LONDON. General Pavle Strugar, 68, has surrendered to the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague. General Strugar is one of four former Yugoslav officers accused of shelling the city of Dubrovnik between October and December 1991 by the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (TPIY). http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7873

ITALIAN MINISTER TAKES POT SHOT AT CONTEMPORARY ART

ROME. Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy’s headline-grabbing Under Secretary of State, has caused another rumpus by criticising Yannis Kounellis and other “over-rated” contemporary artists. He is alleged to have described their work as “escrementizia” (excrementitious), banal and an excuse for art. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7872

FIRST PHASE OF MORI ARTS CENTER OPENS

TOKYO. Tokyo's art world descended on the entertainment district of Roppongi for the champagne- fuelled launch of the city's newest art space, the "New Tokyo Life Style Roppongi Think Zone". The space, which will fortunately be known by the more concise title of "Zone", is part of the pre-opening phase of the ambitious Mori Arts Center which will open in autumn 2003 in Roppongi Hills, a 2.5 billion dollar multi-purpose development currently under construction on an adjacent site. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7871

ITALIAN ART SALE REPORT: PRIVATE BUYERS TO THE FORE

LONDON. Traumatised by the international situation and the recent air crash in Milan, Italians have been chary of travelling by plane, with the result that fewer of them made the trip to Sotheby’s and Christie’s sales of Italian art this month. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=7870

Anna Somers Cocks, Editor
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The Art Newspaper
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