January 23, 2002
CONTENTS:
- Stolen Chagall may have landed in Kansas
- Tribes, Boulder deal on artifacts
- academic journal seeks author to write on museum security
- Russia to return medieval stained-glass windows to Germany
Stolen Chagall may have landed in Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) --A painting believed to be a Marc Chagall work stolen last year from the Jewish Museum in New York City turned up at a postal installation in Topeka, Kansas, the FBI said Tuesday. Agents said the 8-by-10-inch oil is probably the French-Russian painter's "Study for `Over Vitebsk,"' valued at about $1 million. The work was stolen after a party at the museum June 8. A group calling itself the International Committee for Art and Peace later said the painting would be returned only after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace. A package recently declared undeliverable at a postal facility in St. Paul, Minnesota, was shipped to another installation in Topeka, where such mail is opened for identification. Workers there found the painting and called the FBI after noticing stickers from several museums on the back.
The 1914 painting, which had been at the New York museum on loan from a private collection in Russia, shows an old man floating above a village with a walking stick and beggar's sack. It was a practice work for a larger, similar piece called "Over Vitebsk" done the same year. The painting is now headed to New York for further authentication.
http://www.cnn.com/
Tribes, Boulder deal on artifacts
Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - The city of Boulder is negotiating an agreement with American Indian tribal groups to protect cultural artifacts on open space and formalize access to the sites. The deal would establish a permit system allowing tribe members to build temporary structures such as sweat lodges on open space. It also would require city open space officials to consult tribes before building trails and other open space projects in order to prevent the disturbance of areas where archaeological artifacts might be found.
The City Council plans to review the agreement after it is signed by the 14 tribal groups involved. City and tribal officials praised the proposal, saying it will help ensure the preservation of tribal connections that are otherwise threatened by development or looted by collectors.
http://www.denverpost.com/
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:05:03 -0600 (CST)
From: William Yurcik byurcik@sun.iwu.edu
Subject: academic journal seeks author to write on museum security
I am the guest editor of a journal, the Reference Librarian, which is producing a special issue on "Terrorism". I am posting to this list because I am seeking an author to write an academic article on a topic related to "Museum Security and Terrorism" and I have been referred to this Email list as the place to find such an author.
If anyone on this list is interested, please send me an Email describing your background and your ideas on such a paper.
Thanks in advance, I look forward to reading hearing back from some of you,
Cheers!
- Bill Yurcik
byurcik@iwu.edu 309-556-3064 http://www.iwu.edu/~byurcik/
Illinois Wesleyan University
Russia to return medieval stained-glass windows to Germany
AFP [ TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2002 6:46:31 AM ]
MOSCOW: Russia will return a set of medieval stained-glass windows to Germany, German Culture Minister Julian Nida-Ruemelin and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Shvydkoi said Monday. After the Russian parliament approved the transfer, the windows, taken from the church of St Mary in Frankfurt an der Oder, would be displayed in Russia's Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Shvydkoi said. At the end of this year, the windows would be handed over to German authorities for restoration, Shvydkoi added. Germany in turn would sponsor the restoration of the church of the Assumption in Russia's northwestern city of Novgorod. Nida-Ruemelin and Shvydkoi regularly hold talks on recovering the art displaced during the second World War.
Germany has been negotiating with Russia since 1991 for the restitution of some 200,000 artefacts seized by the Russians at the end of the war and proclaimed Russian property by the Russian parliament in April 1999. Russians have considered the items, which include the fabulous and long-disputed "Priam's Treasure" of ancient Troy, as just reparation for the Nazis' aggression against the Soviet Union and the art and monuments looted during the war