2000 Reports

1997, 1998, 1999

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• December 30, 2000
  - Art forgeries held after $12.5m in sales
  (Spanish police seize over 1,000 Picasso, Dali forgeries )
  - IFCPP news
  - Forgery claim bewilders art world
  - independent investigation sought of the Terra Foundation for the Arts
  - Canadian Galleries release list of suspected Nazi art
  - National Gallery disputes Ukraine's claim to drawing;
  Museum says artwork stolen by Nazis was acquired in good faith
  - Civil rights museum is vandalized
  - Vandals ransack Quebec historic church
  
• December 29, 2000
  - Holocaust Museum Online
  - Jewish museum attacked in Bucharest
  - US may renew bid to seize Schiele painting
  - DNA signature against theft and forgery
  
• December 28, 2000
  - Undersea treasure hunters to float after £1.5m sale
  - Famous artist maybe victim of theft and forgeries (Pro Hart calls in police on 'art fraud' )
  - Police question witnesses in Swedish art heist
  - TRAINING PROGRAM IN AUTHENTICATION AND FORGERY DETECTION OF COLLECTABLE PRINTS
  
• December 26, 2000
  - Query: CCTV equipment (Netaly Zelcer)
  - Looking back at the arts in 2000 by The Associated Press
  (Lawyers proved as significant as Rembrandt in 2000)
  - You Can't Bring Those Antiquities In Here!
  (purchases from a growing list of countries are coming to an end, and for a remarkable
  reason: A little known State Department body, the Cultural Property
  Advisory Committee)
  - more on Stockholm art heist
  - Swiss High Court has returned 62-year-old antiquities smuggler Edip Telli to Turkey
  - Who knew what about Nazi loot?
  A public inquiry into art plunder might be in order Bonnie Czegledi. A lawyer's view.
  - Museums and Tribes: A Tricky Truce
  - Website helps authorities track stolen art
  (stealing art is a growth industry.
  Art thieves make off with billions in cultural property every year)
  
• December 22, 2000, part II
  - Sweden museum thieves in armed art robbery
  - Line blurring between art and commerce at U.S. museums
  - A five-year investigation reveals that most West African terra-cotta
  sculptures are fakes that have fooled specialists, sold for hundreds
  of thousands of dollars, and ended up in some of the world's most
  prestigious museums
  - Italy to return obelisk to Ethiopia
  - Museum relief as `stolen' gem found
  
• December 22, 2000
  - Re : Museum Sleepovers (Gary Yee)
  - Re : Museum Sleepovers (Brian Appleford)
  - Re : Museum Sleepovers (Elizabeth Hall)
  - Art college wins fight for Tate site
  - U.S. lists 2,000 artworks looted by Nazis
  - Newfoundland government admits to losing art from permanent collection
  - Man to be retried on receiving fossil
  - The opinions of the National Library of Canada's director on the deplorable state of that institution's storage facilities
  - Germany's hundred-million dollar art collection (Heinz Berggruen collection)
  - Workshop on disaster planning, February 2001
  - Poles attack Pope sculpture
  - Rare gems stolen from museum
  - NEWSBRIEFS ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
  - The art of recovery
  (At U.S. Customs, finding and retrieving stolen paintings takes an old master --
  and sometimes an aesthetic connection with the thief)
  
• December 20, 2000
  - Paintings stolen from Melbourne Gallery
  - Athens's New Subway System Brings Buried Treasures to Light
  - Re: Museum Sleepovers (David Armstrong)
  - Thieves walk off with half-tonne statue (Russia)
  - Press Release Department for Culture, Media and Sport on accession to the UNESCO Convention (against accession to UNIDROIT)
  - more on: seizure of faked paintings in Barcelona
  
• December 19, 2000
  - Britain signs up to protect antiquities
  After 30 years of stonewalling, stolen treasure trade to be banned
  
• December 19, 2000
  - Thousands of Faked Works by Dalí, Picasso, Miro, Lichtenstein, Warhol Retained in the Port of Barcelona
  - Re: query MUSEUM SLEEPOVER (Steve Keller)
  - query: Minimum Security (Ross Brand)
  - Dali works damaged in muse's fatal fire
  
• December 17, 2000
  - National Museum lauds retrieval of ancient piece
  (Theft of artifacts is hard to control, but the war was a free-for-all)
  - Chinese terra-cotta warriors create stir in Taiwan
  - query: MUSEUM SLEEPOVER and safety
  - British art trade fears losses after tax setback
  - Fathers of Confederation artist vandalized his own painting
  - Yarrow Offers Reward for Guitar
  - Romania blocks auction of famed Brancusi sculpture
  - Key to art Nazis stole may be locked away
  (Commission's plan to publish postwar loss claims in peril)
  - French court holds Nazi-looted art as evidence
  - Soviet mole routed art to National Gallery (Curators to study whether paintings were wartime loot)
  - THE ART NEWSPAPER TOURS THE HERMITAGES SECRET STORE OF TROPHY ART
  (Art Newspaper's this week's top stories)
  
• December 15, 2000
  - query: standard safety procedures
  - More than a hundred pieces of art missing from Newfoundland's permanent collection
  - The Lie became Great, The Forgery of Ancient Eastern Cultures (order information)
  - An end to plunder
  - Call for legal action on museum 'blight'
  - Treasure hunters race to find Nazi loot of priceless amber
  - Press release. Department for Culture, Media and Sport London, UK
  
• December 14, 2000
  - The Art Newspaper - FORUM
  - Artworks and Honesty
  (The details of an old painting's provenance can often look like a verbal maze,
  a shorthand catalogue of terse allusions to auctions, exhibitions, reproductions
  and the lives of former owners)
  - EU deals blow to art world
  
• December 13, 2000
  - Nazi Looted Art in Canada
  (editorial article in today's Toronto "Globe and Mail" by Matthew Teitelbaum)
  - Preventing Art Attacks
  - Ottawa woman sues to reclaim Nazi loot
  - Chinese art acquisition fills void in collection
  - Fire reveals treasure trove of American Indian relics
  
• December 12, 2000
  - Dealers give thumbs down to art print plan
  - Mona Lisa 'was saved from Nazis by British agent'
  - Pompidou Center in Paris looses Niki de Saint Phalle Nana
  - `Picasso' cat's confessed thief arrested in Stuart
  
• December 11, 2000
  - Has Ireland lost a $50 million art collection?
  - collectors frequently defrauded by dealers
  
• December 10, 2000
  - Renoir among 17 works of art stolen
  - Celebrity chef arrested after art theft
  - New Perception Of Indian History Rises From Ashes Relics found after Sequoia fire
  - Fake antiquities litter top museums
  
• December 9, 2000
  - Police hunt Sydney auction scene in search of stolen art
  - Man's Conviction for Looting Indian Burial Site Overturned
  - Art Stolen From Library
  - Court rules Strasbourg Museum must return Klimt to U.S. resident
  -Loot Online: Czech Government to Display Nazi Booty on Internet
  - World Jewish Congress Asks France To Speed Return of Works Taken by Nazis
  - Terra-Cotta Diplomacy (China - Taiwan)
  - Iffyosaurus Dinosaur skeleton exposed as fake
  
• December 8, 2000
  - Twists and Turns in Sotheby's-Christie's Conspiracy Case
  - The Art Newspaper:
  ARTEFACTS SMUGGLED IN SPAGHETTI
  BATTLE FOR THE PARTHENON MARBLES GOES UNDERGROUND
  - Invaluable Newsletter No 6: Stolen art recoveries update
  - Gallery fears some of its art is Nazi plunder (Suspect works posted on Web)
  
• December 7, 2000
  - Police dismantle cross-border art theft ring
  - Thread on auction of Chinese antiquities by Austrian auction houses: Zacke Gallery
  - The National Conference On Cultural Property Protection
  - Thieves steal quarter-ton stone lion
  - Public funds used to buy Kofuku Bank art
  - Search for stolen painting gets boost (Museums acknowledge they may have art looted by the Nazis)
  
• December 6, 2000
  - Re: Cost per square foot (Steve Keller)
  - Harvard University Museums PROVENANCE RESEARCH
  - U.S. returns stolen masterpiece to Germany
  - Greece Snubs British Museum Party Over Marbles
  
• December 5, 2000
  - artworks recuperated from Germany to the Netherlands
  
• December 5, 2000
  - ALAN HOWARTH ANNOUNCES WORLD HERITAGE SITE STATUS FOR BLAENAVON IN WALES AND THE TOWN OF ST GEORGE IN BERMUDA
  - Archeological thefts increase in Palestine
  - Greek snub to British Museum over marbles
  - The Art Newspaper, This week's top stories (DESTRUCTION OF LHASA, CZECH NATIONAL COLLECTIONS IN DISARRAY, CODE OF ETHICS FOR DEALERS)
  
• December 3, 2000
  - Available Talent (Steve Keller)
  - Security Cost per Square Foot
  - Silent Witnesses to a Lost Culture
  - Museum's jade quality doubted (Museum to hold seminar on jade)
  - Response to "No Looted Art in Hitler's Museum at Linz"
  
• November 30, 2000
  - RE: Security Policies (Steve Keller)
  - New subscriber: Our Introduction
  - Klimt paintings to return to owner
  - Museums Accept Stronger Role in Search for Looted Art
  - Museum head in court over removal from post
  
• November 29, 2000
  - More on looted NOK statues from Nigeria
  (plus information about the Unesco publication SOURCES)
  - Security Policies (Frank Petersen)
  - Nabokov Museum To Monitor Intellectual Property
  - Art slump: Streeton passed in (Sotheby's victim of the collapsing Australian art market)
  - SFMOMA Loses Fight Over Patron's Picasso
  
• November 28, 2000
  - Art Sellers Look to Use Coupons in Settlement
  - Legal war over trashed artworks settled
  - Tracking an Elusive Map Thief
  - Roban en Tequisistlán 8 óleos del siglo XVII
  (17th century paintings stolen from in Tequisistlán)
  - Poor scratch a living from fossil trade
  
• November 26, 2000
  - U.S. National Gallery of Art Gives Up Nazi-Confiscated Painting
  (STATEMENT BY TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY STUART E. EIZENSTAT)
  - Makonde Sculptures Stolen in Dubai
  - Cat burglar: I've been robbed
  - Afghanistan Joins Tug-Of-War Over Ancient Mummy
  - Money Woes May Close Russian Museum
  - Artists campaign for EU to drop royalties plan
  
• November 25, 2000
  Chirac Exalts African Art, Legal and (Maybe) Illegal
  
• November 25, 2000
  - Danish museum fined for liquidising goldfish (Danish museum incurs fishy fine )
  - 'Classic' painting auction hammered by the critics
  - British Museum's 'cheap' portico may be pulled down
  - Nigeria Claims Paris for Looted Artworks at the Louvre
  - Le casse-tête nok des sculptures du Musée du quai Branly rebondit
  
• November 24, 2000
  - Theft Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  - 'Fakes' on sale in Jakarta
  - Burglar wants reward to return his haul
  - The Art Newspaper.com http://www.theartnewspaper.com This week's top stories
  
• November 24, 2000, part II
  - Agency says museum took too long to ID Nazi loot
  - Bremen Basks In Return of Art Looted by Soviet Army
  - RESCUE STUDIES FOR ANCIENT BELKIS / ZEUGMA CITY (Turkish Department of Culture)
  - Speaking through art, Athens hopes to regain its marbles
  - Restoration of 'Moses' gets online audience
  
• November 24, 2000
  - Taleban may move museum pieces
  - Petroglyph Theft Casts Agency in Bloodhound Role
  - Museum accused of bid-rigging
  - Russia "Owes Nothing" to Germany Regarding Art Trophies
  - Mexican Archaeologists Trapped in Tourism Catch-22
  - Photo Exhibit Closed After Uproar
  
• November 22, 2000
  - No Looted Art in Hitler's Museum in Linz
  - Looted artifacts lead to call for tougher laws
  (A Paiute leader says the sentence handed a pot hunter shows that stronger sanctions are needed)
  - temporary bar on the export of a gem fragment showing the bust of Octavian as the god Mercury.
  
• November 21, 2000
  - Present for our 200.000th visitor
  - Art theft suffered by Mendez de Vigo Family, and Spanish Heritage (Please read moderator's comment)
  - Painting Which was to Discredit Bishop Balaz Returned
  - I was an innocent go-between, says Enigma case man
  - TAUBMAN: IT WAS TENNANT
  - Art Taken By Nazis To Be Returned
  (The National Gallery of Art is returning a painting believed to have been stolen by German Nazis sometime before 1941 from a Paris family's collection)
  
• November 20, 2000
  LAUNCH OF CODE OF ETHICS FOR ART DEALERS AT ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF CONVENTION ON ENDING ILLICIT TRADE IN CULTURAL PROPERTY
  
• November 20, 2000
  - HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S KIN SEEK PAY FOR LOOTED ART
  - 'Buried treasure' theft revives Alaska fossil debate
  - AN ARCHEOLOGICAL BLITZ SAVES `2ND POMPEII' ART
  - How The Sunday Times cracked the Enigma code
  - Antiques dealer charged with Enigma blackmail
  
• November 18, 2000
  - Art thief's $1m career snuffed out
  - Balancing the books at the museum
  - Porcelain treasures from the deep go on the auction block
  - Man held in riddle of missing Enigma
  - Details unveiled for `glowing lantern' addition to Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
  - Lost treasures of Kabul
  
• November 17, 2000
  - Museum trustees blamed for fiasco
  - Booming Global Trade Fueling Thefts in Cultural Relics
  - Portlander pleads guilty to stealing Chinese antiques
  - 100 GET AXED AT SOTHEBY'S
  - New Domain extension '.museum'
  
• November 16, 2000
  - Ex-federal sleuth fenced stolen items
  - electronic archiving, cataloguing and collection management services
  - Re: statues de rodin volées en Russie
  - Picasso cat statue stolen from Hemingway museum
  - Man sentenced for defacing Virgin Mary painting
  - Sotheby's Posts Loss After Price-Fixing
  
• November 15, 2000
  - new: continuous news updates at Museum Security Network site
  - Turkish police recover fifth stolen Picasso
  - Judge Puts Proposed Deal on Auctions to Plaintiffs
  - Museum report 'under wraps'
  
• November 14, 2000
  - Looted Art Recovered by the Civil Guard and the Mossos d´Esquadra
  - Emergency Archaeology; Antiquities Saved in Turkey as Waters Rise
  - Shanghai aims to seek cultural superiority
  - Lawyers Give Plan to Split Auction-Case Settlement
  - Call for help on the song of "Save Our Heritage"
  - Query: Film Policy
  
• November 13, 2000
  - The Amber Room on the Web Now
  - The Art Newspaper, This week's top stories
  - Christie's and Sotheby's to help with provenance research projects
  
• November 10, 2000
  - Police crack $5 million art theft ring - IFCPP Committee Participation
  - Austria Moves on Stolen Jewish Property
  - 2000/01 DISASTER-RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK
  - Way off subject, but..... (Steve Keller explains elections for friends from abroad the USA)
  - Invaluable Newsletter No 5 (Recovery of the Month)
  - United Farm Workers Sue Over Murals
  - After 6 years, battle for stolen artwork ends
  
• November 8,2000, special:
  ART THEFT AND FORGERY INVESTIGATION: The Complete Field Manual.
  
• November 8, 2000
  - ICOM Korea's website
  - Misc. notes: Spiel, Boyce, Mysteries & Auctions
  - New Auction House Makes Its Move
  - Read it and Smirke
  - eBay fraud lawsuit raises questions
  - Diamond Heist Thwarted
  - Arson strikes history of Fort Lee
  - Yahoo! can block access to Nazi items
  
• November 6, 2000
  - Two Rodin sculptures stolen from Russian museum
  - Commercial Art Authentification Program
  - Art forgers show their true colours
  
• November 5, 2000
  - Peru diplomat tied to alleged Bolivia art theft
  - Re: WAR SEA GRAVES PILLAGED
  - The Art Newspaper: This week's top stories
  - Japan archaeologist exposed as fraud
  - Americans Consider Museums a Trustworthy Information Source
  - 'POSTER' IS WORTH POUNDS 3M
  - TEMPORARY BAR PLACED ON EXPORT OF IMPORTANT OIL SKETCH BY RUBENS
  
• November 2, 2000
  - Query: motion sensors
  - U.S. Protects Nicaragua's Pre-Columbian Archaeological Materials
  - WAR SEA GRAVES PILLAGED
  - LIVING OFF THE DEAD: TOMB LOOTER EXPOSED
  - Court upholds $60 sale of art resold for $1 million
  - Eight more are named in auction-house lawsuit
  - Antique dealer sues over painting's value
  - Phillips: A Third Bidder for Auction World Heft
  (The historical tug of war between Sotheby's and Christie's has turned
  into an expensive three-way fight and their catalogs seem bloated with second-rate paintings)
  
• October 31, 2000
  - Hot Art Cold Cash on line
  - Stolen fossils sold to Germany
  - Arts Minister has placed bars on the export of two fifteenth-century silver and silver-gilt reliquary and pen and watercolour painting William Blake
  
• October 30, 2000
  - The Art Newspaper, Focus on Looted Art
  - Device May Rescue Aging Masterpieces
  - Earthquakes in the Auction World (Brokerages May Alter the Art Game)
  - A question for the ages: returning ancient remains
  - Glasgow collection hit by Nazi link
  - £40m bequest baffles Paris art lovers
  
• October 27, 2000
  - IFAR Evening on the FBI
  - Looted Treasures Returned to Italy
  - Workshop: Safety and Health in Museums
  - Heiress pleased by court ruling on Nazi-looted art
  - Up to 600 works of art in galleries linked to Nazis
  - Park Employees Race Against Time To Protect Archaeological Sites
  - Man carried gun stolen from museum
  - Heritage buffs will meet to discuss Old Silk Road
  
• October 24, 2000
  - Stolen, Lost, & Missing Fossils (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Flight direction of works of art in transit (Tom Dixon)
  - Nazi-looted Cezanne seized by French court in ownership dispute
  - Theft from Swedish Museum
  
• October 22, 2000
  - Art collection may contain stolen items
  ( Would-be National Gallery donor an innocent victim whose collection of Chinese antiquities was assembled from unscrupulous vendors)
  - Unesco canvasses Japan to sign the 1970 Convention
  (International organisation's 30th birthday marks time to encourage cooperation on preventing illict imports)
  - Man Vonvicted Of Defacing Painting
  - Art gang holds £12m Turners to ransom
  (negotiations with a middleman acting for Serbian gangsters)
  
• October 20, 2000
  - Query: Museums with high end security systems
  - STEDDIE : The bodyguard for art
  - Catastrophies and Catastrophy Management
  - Perplexing case of the vanishing Wyeth
  - Art Attacker: It Was My 1st Amendment Right
  - Boston museum in pact to keep refugees' painting
  
• October 18, 2000
  - pencil markings on paintings (RE: invisible ink): Steve Keller
  - International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection (IFCPP) News Brief
  - Stolen Enigma machine returned
  
• October 17, 2000
  - RE: invisibile ink (Tom Dixon)
  - Art Museum settles suit over a stolen Matisse
  - Vilnius conference urges speedier restitution of Nazi-looted cultural property
  - National Workshop on UNESCO Instruments Protecting the Movable Cultural Heritage, to be held in Hanoi, 21 to 23 November 2000
  
• October 16, 2000
  - International Journal of CULTURAL PROPERTY
  - International Symposium CLAIMS FOR THE RESTITUTION OF LOOTED ART
  - Man Who Knew of Stolen Art is Freed
  - Don't return artefacts to Nigeria
  (Leading expert on Nigerian antiquities warns that government and museum officials in the country are involved with the illicit trade of artefacts to the West)
  - Filonov drawings stolen by curators returned to Russia by Pompidou Centre
  (Guggenheim representative applies legal pressure on French government)
  - Chinese books stolen from Harvard
  - Stolen art may be in Sydney
  - Search for Nazi ghosts in gallery
  - McKenney & Hall volumes stolen
  - Have a Captain Cook at these gems - for a price
  - Balkan art news
  - Picassos, or Maybe Not Picassos, Surface in Turkey
  - Vandalism and Theft at a World Heritage Fossil Site
  - The Art Newspaper.com (http://www.theartnewspaper.com); this week's top stories
  - Catastrophies and catastrophy management in museums International Congres, Sarajevo, April 17 - 21, 2001
  
• October 4 - 6, 2000
  - Fortsons won't take more pay; Couple act to spare Kimbell's reputation
  - Introduction/Invisble Ink
  - flash photography in museums (Tom Dixon)
  - Assaults on Public Institutions (Stevan Layne)
  - Re: Invisible Ink (Terrence Quinlan)
  - Invisble Ink (Mike Kiger)
  - Decorative arts flagship seeks captain (The Victoria & Albert Museum)
  - Sotheby's close to deal with US Justice Department
  - Christie's Ordered to Answer in Antitrust Suit
  - Conference discusses return of Jewish art stolen by Nazis (Lithuania's parliament voted to turn over 370 torahs)
  - Former Sotheby's Chief May Plead Guilty
  - Stolen Objects
  - Re: Invisible Ink
  - Russia, U.S. in Deal on Nazi-Looted Art
  - Art and the ayatollahs
  - British Museum Agrees on Ransom
  - Re: Invisible Ink (Steve Keller)
  - In Plea, Sotheby's Ex-Chief Points to Her Superior
  - Judge defers action on Sotheby's guilty plea
  
• October 3, 2000
  - Ancient Greek-Roman City Excavated Before Flood
  - AUCTION HOUSE BOMBSHELL
  - Boy sought £1m ransom for painting
  - Woodworm invade Venetian art
  - Re: Rules of Decorum (David Liston)
  
• October 2, 2000
  - Three alleged mob associates arrested in art fraud scam
  - Cultural Property Rules of Decorum (Jim Holley)
  - The Art Newspaper.com: This week's top stories
  - Icarosaurus auction dispute (Dan Chure)
  - An artiste in the art of forgery (more on Geert Jan Jansen)
  
• September 29, 2000
  - Call by Belgium Minister Johan Sauwens concerning recent art thefts
  
• September 28, 2000
  - COURT PAPERS SHOW TERRA BOARD SPLIT
  - SOTHEBY'S LIKELY TO FACE FINE, NO CHARGES
  - Brothers who stole stamps sentenced to prison
  - New chapter on (Public Library) security
  
• September 26, 2000
  - IFAR Journal information
  - Bushman's Body to Return Home
  - Holocaust Museum, Author at Odds
  - U.S. Indian Tribes to Get Kennewick Man Skeleton
  
• September 26, 2000
  - Master Forger Geert Jan Jansen on trial in France
  - Re: Theft of Fossils (Dan Chure)
  - Queen's visit fuels royal jewels row
  - Sotheby's Shares Jump on News of Price-Fixing Settlement
  
• September 25, 2000
  - Theft of Fossils (Dan Chure)
  - re: Collections Security (George Liddell)
  - Re: training videos (Steve Keller)
  - Ex-Chief to Pay Bulk of Claims for Sotheby's
  - Tsar Putin spends £25m on palace
  - A Hit With Tourists, Getty Museum Courts Angelenos
  
• September 24, 2000
  - query: security and private collection (Renee N. Vara)
  - RE: request for training video (adalberto biasiotti)
  - LAWSUIT SEEKS TO BAR TERRA MUSEUM MOVE
  - Art dealers to stand trial in beating
  - Germany: Nazis' stolen art returned to Jews
  
• September 23, 2000
  - Major Auction Houses Will Pay $512 Million to Settle Price-Fixing Case
  (a most important settlement since Sotheby's and Christie's control 95% of the global auction activities. T.C.)
  - Fire damages old courthouse (AGAIN: construction work caused this fire!)
  - RE: Wang Haijun is arrested for stealing and destroying (Gary Yee)
  - RE: Wang Haijun is arrested for stealing and destroying (He Shuzhong)
  - query: training video museum security (Tom Meighan)
  - Re: Monet theft in Poland (Giovanni Garcia)
  - Re: Monet theft in Poland (Donald Taglialatella)
  - art law New York (Lawrence A. Berglas)
  - The ArtsNewspaper weekly news letter (abbreviated)
  - special: "Lost Art" WW.II loot in Hungary
  
• September 22, 2000
  - Re: Wang Haijun is arrested for stealing and destroying (Phyllis Oppenheim)
  - Re: Monet theft in Poland (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Conservators for disaster response in Florida
  - Destruction of cultural heritage in Kosovo: a postwar report(ConsDisList: Andras Riedlmayer)
  
• September 21, 2000, part II
  - Mosler ends MSN sponsorship
  - Re - Query: The Monet from the Polish museum (Charles Hill)
  - RE: (Fwd) Re: Theft of Monet's "Pourville Beach" (Connie Lowenthal)
  - RE: (Fwd) Re: Theft of Monet's "Pourville Beach" (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Wang Haijun Is Arrested for Stealing and Destroying More than One Hundred Buddha Statues
  
• September 21, 2000
  - Historic Vietnamese Treasure to be Sold by Butterfields Auctioneers And Online at eBay
  - Southwest's missions struggle to fend off art thieves
  (Seventeenth-century statues are disappearing, and along with them, pieces of cultural history)
  - query: Monet theft in Poland (Tom Reeve)
  
• September 20, 2000
  - Stolen duck statues restored in Moscow
  - Monet Painting Stolen From Polish Museum (replaced with forgery)
  - China's 2,000-Year-Old Treasures under Threat from Mould
  - Antiquities destroyed in City of David
  - Re: Theft of Monet's "Pourville Beach"
  
• September 19, 2000
  - Over a million apples and oranges missing from Dutch Museums
  - re: security position request (Steve Keller)
  - International Journal of Cultural Property
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Margaret Bing)
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Guy de Witte)
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Scott Methvin)
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Jennifer Howard)
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Steve Tlsty)
  
• September 16, 2000
  - Art Crime (katie buchanan )
  - Security position
  - Brits, Feedback,Thieves, & an Antipope's Skull (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Fake or illicit trade
  - Fire Closes Hamline University Library
  - Re: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Nicola Erriquez)
  - RE: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Susan Zabolotniuk, BA, FRM)
  - RE: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (Elizabeth E. Fuller)
  - RE: MSN subscribers: I need your feedback (linn keller)
  - WILDENSTEIN REVEAL KEY DOCUMENTS ON ALLEGED WAR LOOT
  
• September 14, 2000
  - Machu Picchu Sacred Stone Damaged
  (Beer Commercial Shoot Draws Fire)
  - Historic building burns on Sanger's town square (Texas)
  - Woman Charged in Mass. Grave Robberies
  (Sold Stolen Cemetery Urns to Antique Dealers, Cops Say)
  - Theft of French Patrimony (Charles Hill)
  - Just two months after its inauguration last year, fate struck a blow to the nation's first Filipino-American museum:
  A water main broke, flooding the small facility and causing part of the ceiling to collapse - A few useful links
  
• September 14, 2000
  - MSN subscribers' feedback
  
• September 13, 2000
  Special report:
  Over one million objects missing in Netherlands museums
  
• September 13, 2000
  - Tourists' dip damages masterpiece
  - KESTON Kosovo: Three Orthodox Churches Levelled in August
  - U.S. museum buys artwork it concedes was stolen by Nazis (Jewish collector's heirs sell prized painting in first such deal involving) - British auction houses in merger
  - Britain is run by philistines, says Hockney
  
• Septembr 12, 2000, part II
  - The ArtsNewsroom.com report: "Sotheby's...Can't deal with them, Can't deal without them"
  (Sotheby's : escaping the noose)
  - a service in relation to stolen Antiques
  - SEVEN VALUABLE COLONIAL PAINTINGS STOLEN FROM BOLIVIAN CHURCH
  - Police probe alleged theft of rare violin
  
• September 12, 2000
  - Art dealers indicted over stolen works
  - Maryhill Museum burglary (betty Long)
  - Discrimination at Kimbell Museum, final words (Steve Keller)
  - Calcutta to restore splendour of the Raj
  (the Marxist government of West Bengal has cast aside ideological inhibitions and asked English Heritage to help)
  - Antiquities Authority denies excavations at Wall
  
• September 11, 2000
  - Pompeii security (Adalberto Biasiotti)
  - Stop Extension Project Of Telpher Line In Mount Taishan
  
• September 8, 2000
  - More on Shelby White controversy
  - Some relevant links to Weary Herakles, or Shelby White
  - Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles links
  - Book review: Mapping out a crime of cartographic proportions The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime. Miles Harvey.
  
• September 7, 2000
  - Shelby White and the committee for archaeological policy
  - Theft Reporting in the Antiques Industry
  
• September 5, 2000
  - Re: Burglars steal artifacts (Henry Homrighaus Jr.)
  - RE: Burglars steal artifacts (Nolan Hibbard)
  - SAM fined over stolen Matisse
  - Discrimination at the Kimbell
  - The Shelby White issue
  
• September 4, 2000
  - Urban Sprawl: Threat to Archaeology?
  - Boston museum spurns Dutch bid for Nazi-owned art
  - Watching the Detectives
  ( Scholars at area museums face an enormous, often tedious task: searching out records to trace the Nazi-era ownership of their works.)
  
• September 3, 2000
  - Re: Burglars steal artifacts (Steve Keller)
  - BEIRUT IN TRANSITION; Development vies with archaeology in post-war Lebanon
  - Archeological site bombing injures 3
  - State Wants Mountain Meadows Artifacts Returned to the Grave
  - Mafia moves in as Pompeii gets GBP.25m facelift
  - Tax Sum Settled for Stolen Art (the Quedlinburg case)
  
• September 2, 2000
  - Director De Falla says that the museum just wants the items back, and no questions will be asked
  (are thieves invited by museum director?) - Yuanmingyuan Is Still Being Robbed
  - Japanese back North Korean bid to list ancient tombs
  (Continued Japanese support for the conservation of the Koguryo era monuments may signal a rapprochement between the two countries)
  
• September 1, 2000
  - Burglars steal artifacts from American-Indian exhibit
  (burglars managed to disabled security alarms and remove a museum door)
  - Faker is the real thing for Hollywood
  
• August 31, 2000
  - Zeugma's Plundered Mosaics
  - Rescued fossil to be donated to museum
  - STOLEN ART (Listings on Line) http://www.saztv.com/page9.html
  - Video Motion Detection, Access Control
  
• August 29, 2000, part II
  - Re: Sotheby's Response (Michel van Rijn)
  - INVALUABLE, Collect and protect (August/September issue)
  - One year of Stolen Art CD-ROM
  - DEALER TELLS ALL . . . WELL, SOME (A review of Richard Feigen's Tales from the Art Crypt)
  - Re: Comment on Shelby White's nomination to the government's Cultural Property Advisory Committee (James Linza)
  
• August 29, 2000
  - Comment on Shelby White's nomination to the government's Cultural Property Advisory Committee
  - Lizard Fossil Sells Big at Auction
  - Woman Seeks Return of Art Seized by Nazis
  - FBI probing pilfering of Hall artifacts
  - British regional Museums in crisis
  - Art et crime, la criminalité du monde artistique, sa répression, par Ghislaine GUILLOTREAU receives Prix AKROPOLIS, Ministry of Interior, France
  
• August 26, 2000
  - The Mainland's Environment and the Protection of China's Cultural Heritage: A Chinese Cultural Heritage Lawyer's Perspective
  - City's bronze goddess stolen
  - The Art Newspaper (http://www.theartnewspaper.com) : This week's top stories
  - Stolen and Looted Art and Antiquities (http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Stolen_and_Looted_Art_and_Antiquities/ )
  - A PLUNDERED PAST
  (Two years ago, archaeologists at Zeugma discovered a mosaic fragment preserving only part of a woman's portrait,
  nicknamed "Zeugma's Mona Lisa" or the "Gypsy Girl."
  Plunderers had previously looted the surrounding mosaics.)
  - MYSTERY OF THE MAYA FACADE (Astute detective work gives new meaning to a looted artwork)
  - re: IF IT IS LEGAL, IT IS NOT ALWAYS ETHICAL
  
• August 25, 2000
  - Re: Sotheby's Response (Dorit Straus, and moderator's response)
  - Rare firearms stolen from traveling museum
  - British Museum 'mugged' in scam
  - San Antonio Mission Plagued by Thefts (Centuries-old statues disappear at night)
  
• August 24, 2000
  - Sotheby's Response (Rena J. Moulopoulos)
  - MSN moderator's reply
  
• August 23, 2000
  IF IT IS LEGAL, IT IS NOT ALWAYS ETHICAL
  Part 4 of a thread about a possible Italy - Australia connection smuggling antiquities, plus some additional, and relevant cases and information.
  - introduction by your moderator
  - Decency in supplying information: The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
  - messages sent to the Museum Security mailinglist, July 6, August 9, August 11
  - latest message by Michel van Rijn
  - Royal Athena galleries guidelines for collecting ancient art (Not One Single Word About Provenance or Due Diligence!)
  - fax to all parties involved
  - Eskenazi and looted Chinese artifacts ??
  - NOK statues and the Belgium dealer Deletaille
  - Provenance and an USA dealer's catalogue (plus request for information)
  - Final remarks: another invitation to work together; further steps to investigate this matter
  
  
• August 20, 2000
  - Roadshow stars expose antiques counterfeiters
  - Fremont Indian Artifacts Unearthed on Antelope Island
  
• August 19, 2000
  - Afghan national museum reopens
  - Purloined art found in truck of homeless man
  (Detectives track down a $25,000 painting, the last of three stolen in 1997 from a Portland gallery)
  - Are the Brits losing their marbles?
  The time to return the Parthenon sculptures is now, says David Hill (Australian Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marble)
  
• August 17, 2000
  - Re: Security strips and special collections? (Steve Keller)
  - Cousins receive GBP.265,000 for Roman pennies find
  - Celebrities Support MOMA Strike
  - IFAR (the International Foundation for Art Research)
  
• August 16, 2000
  - Israelis seize looted artifacts
  - Collector Joins Watchdog Panel on Antiquities
  - Vandalism on rise at Gallery
  (At the National Gallery, visitors have scribbled on, spray-painted, kicked over, gouged and stuck gum onto more than 30 works of art)
  - Security strips and special collections?
  
• August 15, 2000
  - Youngworth Denied Parole Date (Man Claimes To Have Gardner Heist Information)
  - Mesa Verde fires uncover treasure troves
  
• August 12, 2000
  - Vatican priests linked to fake works of art
  - research on the Museum Loan Process (Laurie Mallet)
  - query: How Has the Internet Helped You? (Ron Lander)
  
• August 11, 2000
  - Re: Your fax 9th August (Van Rijn's allegations wholly baseless)
  - RE: pieces of art sealed in vitrines (Tom Dixon)
  - A race to save pieces of the route that saved slaves
  (In effort to preserve the underground railroad from destruction, archaeologists must uncover sites designed to be concealed)
  - Armenia returns booty
  - Re: forum on stolen art (additional question by Laura Mann)
  
• August 10, 2000
  - A great Washington Post intiative:
  forum on stolen art: transcript from discussion
  
• August 10, 2000
  - Nepal To Get Back Stolen Art
  - Re: Halon Query
  - RE: Steve Keller query about radio frequencies
  - 'Conman of the Century': John Drewe has been released from prison, August 9
  
• August 9, 2000
  - update: Final Blow Sotheby's Christies Antiquities (Michel van Rijn)
  - update: Final Blow Sotheby's Christies Antiquities (Moderator's comments)
  - Thieves Swipe 5-foot Boston Cod (Fiberglass Fish Missing From Downtown Perch)
  - Face to face with a master forger (An infamous artist and Regency fop has been revealed via the wonders of forensic science)
  - Buddhist Figure Pagoda Has Been Returned and the Four Robbers Are Arrested
  - query: Halon Replacement (Scott Tarr)
  
• August 8, 2000, part II
  - Two paintings get closer look, Ownership history incomplete, says Columbus Museum of Art
  - Italy crusades for return of plundered antiquities
  - Access Control Products Automatic Systems
  - Phila. Museum of Art has had its own stolen-art controversy
  - Museum musters resources for repairs (After 60 years, Maryhill Museum of Art's 100,000 visitors each year wear on its outdated buildings)
  
• August 8, 2000
  - Illicit Excavation in Contemporary China
  
• August 8, 2000
  - Embassy's 'stolen' rare books sold at Christie's
  - Re: RH & fire detection (Trevor Reynolds)
  - Cambodia battles to save its cultural heritage
  - Burglars Plunder San Antonio Missions
  
• August 7, 2000
  - Art on the Cheap (Scandal of paintings sold for a mere pittance)
  - Sotheby's checks pricing (Auction house appoints panel to oversee lawsuits)
  - Clues disproved O'Keeffe's ownership of 'Canyon Suite' paintings
  - Museums OK ethics guidelines for exhibits of private art
  - New fire threatening several park buildings, including the headquarters and a museum containing thousands of artifacts.
  
• August 5, 2000
  - Riopelle paintings stolen from Toronto gallery
  - Sotheby's Posts Drop of 5.2% in Earnings (legal fees from the price-fixing investigation and related lawsuits cut into earnings)
  - Re: Museum security systems (Steve Keller)
  - Treasure hunters face new obstacle (Court stripped right to 2 wrecks)
  
• August 4, 2000
  - Typo in Miho Museum message of August 3, 2000
  - "Rare Artefacts Back to Greece "
  - Live On-Line Sprinkler Seminar - August 8, 2000
  - query: wireless object protection solution
  - RE: Fire detection systems in museums and galleries
  - query: Marking fraudulent paintings
  - Italian town urges V & A to return 'stolen' mosaic
  - Fast thieves grab national treasure
  - Museum Recovers Book From Titanic
  
• August 3, 2000
  - We Never Let the Case of Miho Museum Quiet down
  - Fire detection systems in museums and galleries
  - query: Museum Security Systems
  - Stolen Sierk Schroder paintings:
  information is available on line via a link on our indexpage:
  http://www.museum-security.org/
  
• July 31, 2000
  - another major arttheft in The Netherlands
  - Greece launches design competition for new Acropolis museum
  
• July 28, 2000
  - Re: Museum Security questions (palazzo forti)
  - Re: Museum Security questions (Adalberto Biasiotti)
  - Silberberg claiming a looted Van Gogh Bert Eifer)
  - Spokane collector victimized
  - new distributor for Fauser security windows from German
  - Titanic Address Book Stolen
  - A 19th-century antiquities merchant, whose outrageous forgeries fooled most of the people most of the time, gets another viewing
  
• July 26, 2000
  - Windsor Castle video
  - query: wireless in Europe (Steve Keller)
  - Mesa Verde Blaze Threatens Ancient Ruins
  - Trade in stolen art should be a crime, say MPs
  
• July 25, 2000
  - Press release:
  MADONNA AND CHILD PAINTING TO RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA
  - RE: Security questions (Peter Ruefli)
  - RE: Security questions (Rob Green)
  - RE: Security questions (Reid Bailey)
  - RE: Security questions (Adalberto Biasiotti)
  
• July 24, 2000
  - Re: Security questions (Steve Keller)
  - Charges shock Milwaukee art community
  - Stolen Koran was offered to Christie's
  
• July 23, 2000
  - Police Recover Stolen Virgin Mary
  - Web site lets crooks sell what they steal
  - Treasures Among the Ashes (Indian Ruins Discovered in Fire-Ravaged National Park)
  - Arrests show dark side of art world (Dealers charged in beating of broker; FBI seeks link to international thefts)
  - British arts set to get GBP.150m net showcase
  
• July 21, 2000 (part II)
  - A smuggle line to Australia
  
• July 21, 2000
  - Security questions
  - World Jewish Congress to claim artwork looted from Jews
  - GBP.20m scheme for National Gallery visits
  
• July 20, 2000
  - Attempted Sale of Rare Books from the National Agricultural Library
  - Discovery of Indian artifacts kills plan for Fall City soccer field
  - man arrested in connection with a beating in Whitefish Bay may be tied to the theft of millions of dollars in artwork in Italy
  - eBay pulls plug on Egyptian pyramid auction
  - Austrian museum can keep stolen art
  
• July 19, 2000
  - Return of Helmantel paintings
  - Sotheby Case Will Go to a Trial
  - ALR Change of Address - Immediate
  - Auction of Fossil Stirs Debate
  - Historians want ASI to be made autonomous
  - Smuggled treasures will go back to Mexico
  - Guarding tribal past links officer to heritage
  - Russian Law on Export of Art Confuses
  
• July 18, 2000
  - Art or Imitation? (More than 200 works attributed to Van Gogh could be fakes)
  - auction houses and smuggled antiquities (Michel van Rijn)
  - Unnamed Vendor Says Pyramid Pieces for Sale on Web
  
• July 16, 2000
  - International Committee on Museum Security (ICMS) annual meeting
  - RE: Austria's Stolen Art Listings Now On-Line (Ton Cremers)
  - 'Shame of Aboriginal art fakes'
  - National parks say that theft of protected artifacts is soaring (Last year's record attributed to looters and souvenir-seekers)
  
• July 14, 2000
  - 2001 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection
  - Quito theft, Getty provenance
  - Austria's Stolen Art Listings Now On-Line
  - Web Site Can't Find Art Owners
  
• July 13, 2000
  - The Museum Security network DISCLAIMER has been updated
  - Workshop on disaster training
  - Mystery of how Mata Hari lost her head (disappeared from macabre museum)
  - A Bottle of Coca-Cola, Or A Piece of Local Cultural Property in Paris?
  
• July 12, 2000
  - Artful sleuthing
  - Getty Museum paintings posted on the Net
  - Paintings got around (Three art-gallery operators who made millions by selling the same paintings to many people were sent to jail yesterday for fraud)
  - Rare books, art stolen from embassy in London
  - FSA (David Todd)
  
• July 10, 2000
  - Rare books stolen from Bar-Ilan University
  - Magnate's Picasso buy heightens museum ethics debate
  - Statues taken; cemetery locks gates
  
• July 6, 2000
  - Product information
  - Michel van Rijn, the final blow, smuggled antiquities whitewashed in Australia
  
• July 6, 2000
  - Provenance research website (John Walsh, J.Paul Getty Museum)
  - SFMOMA Suit Meets Setback; Museum, Russell heirs at odds over Picasso
  - Form follows function: The development of the Internet as a tool in fighting art theft.
  
• July 5, 2000
  - ArtResolve : alternative dispute resolution for works of art and antiquity
  - Fire suppression options
  - IFCPP
  - Artist Bacon 'had a Swiss account to dodge income tax'
  - SPOLIATION ADVISORY PANEL ON ART LOOTED IN THE NAZI ERA ANNOUNCE FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE AND RULES OF PROCEDURE
  
• July 3, 2000
  - U.S. Archaeologist Held in Greece
  - Britain urged to return 'looted' Italian treasure
  
• July 1, 2000
  - 'CON' JOB FOR MGM
  - Find Stolen Art.Com: mission statement
  - Spain Send Stuffed Body to Africa
  - GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ
  
• June 29, 2000, special
  - Chinese Books Missing from Harvard
  
• June 29, 2000
  - More on stolen Picasso
  - Correction URL: http://www.mchelvanrijn.com/ should have been: http://www.michelvanrijn.com/
  - STUDENTS CHARGED IN THEFT OF NU'S `MOO'
  - Virtual Theft of Books from Auction House
  - Reports say FBI targeted trio in Gardner art theft; Group included reputed mob associate
  - June update - notes on stolen art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Ancient Roman City Going Underwater
  
• June 28, 2000
  - More on Stealing History publication.
  - bookmark suggestion: http://artsjournal.com/visual_arts.htm
  - Museum law and the protection of cultural property and monuments
  - Tate Modern upstages the Dome with 1m visitors in just 47 days
  - Aboriginal Art (Michel van Rijn)
  
• June 27, 2000
  - Security department traffic/log book
  - Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material
  - The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2000 list of ``most endangered'' sites, published Monday
  - Fears of indigenous art fakes during Olympics
  - "New law would weaken US ability to keep out loot" Foreign nations would be required to give information to justify their request
  
• June 26, 2000
  - Stolen Picasso Found in Turkey
  - RE: Halon Dump (Steve Keller)
  - Museums hunt for stolen art in collections
  - GBP.700 bronze revealed as bargain Donatello
  
• June 25, 2000
  - A Cultural Property Storage Protection Primer by David Liston
  - Halon dump
  - Arson attack on historic pavilion
  - Fire ravages Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg
  - Czechs To Return Jewish Property
  - They've lost their marbles (Greece and others try to get treasures back)
  - Curators seek bans to halt exodus of Aboriginal art
  
• June 22, 2000
  - Forgeries Can Defy Experts; Some Discovered, But Most Still Hang on Walls
  - Experts Lining Up Against eBay 'Masterpiece'
  - Web Sites Make It Hard to Peddle Hot Renoirs
  
• June 22, 2000
  - Inside The World of Art Theft
  - Connoisseurs cast doubt on eBay painting's authenticity
  - Art Crime of the Century Still Frustrates
  - From the Ancient World to Madison Avenue
  
• June 6, 2000
  - E-bay fraud: In Online Auctions, Rings of Bidders
  
• June 6, 2000
  - Museum Visitor Breaks Ming Chair
  - Greece Eyes Co-Ownership of Marbles
  - Stolen silver valued by BBC antiques show
  
• June 5, 2000
  - Picky Thieves Steal Paintings by Chagall From Art Gallery
  - Papandreou to put marbles case to MPs
  
• June 4, 2000
  - Thieves go wild on 'protected' land Animals and plants stolen from parks
  - Museum Funding Sparks Ethical Debate
  - Gangs smuggle best of Africa's art to Britain
  
• May 31, 2000
  - Looted Antiques Shown in Beijing
  - Fwd: S.1696: we need your help!
  - Czechs May Return Jewish Property
  - Museums Reach Deal Over Stolen Art
  - Collector 'had hoard of illegally stuffed rare birds'
  
• May 29, 2000
  - RE: Misting Sprinklers (Tom Dixon)
  - Cyprus Police Recover Stolen Koran
  
• May 27, 2000
  - QUERY: Misting Sprinklers (Steve Keller)
  - Russia's Putin approves WW2 art booty law (controversial law barring the return to Germany of art treasures seized by the Red Army)
  - Picasso costs collector his museum role
• - Dutch Nazi agencies "fabulous" thieves-U.S. report
  
• May 25, 2000
  - Trace is now Invaluable (Free magazine for Museum Security Network subscribers)
  - Re.: Sprinkler systems/fire suppression systems in museums
  - Britain wins support over Elgin Marbles
  - Academics at war in Marbles forum
  - Mexico's Femsa brewer to shut down art museum
  - Saving Imperiled Sites (The World Monuments Fund Spreads $1 Million Around the World)
  
• May 24, 2000
  - May update - stolen art web-sites (Jonathan sazonoff)
  - Former library director facing felony theft, misconduct charges
  - German town saw Nazi art dealer as local hero--WJC
  - China calls for return of 'looted' treasures
  - N.Orleans Cemetery Trial Begins
  - RE: STOLEN: RARE JUDAICA BOOKS (Antony Anderson)
  - Sprinkler Systems & Fire Suppression
  - Art on Loan Must Be Protected
  
• May 22, 2000
  - http://www.michelvanrijn.com/ Check this site and reach you own conclusions
  - Antiques stolen from hall at WSU
  - Suspicion Hangs in U.S. Museums
  - Gallery says GBP.40m Rubens is not a copy
  
• May 21, 2000
  - Two Illicit Excavators Are Sentenced to Death Penalty Today in China
  - STOLEN: RARE JUDAICA BOOKS
  - Press release Department Culture, Media, and Sport: 'PUT EDUCATION AT THE HEART OF EVERY MUSEUM' SAY ALAN HOWARTH AND JACQUI SMITH
  - Museums angry over order to increase ethnic visitors
  - National Gallery (Washinhgton) Vulnerable to Provenance Questions
  
• May 19, 2000
  - ICMS Conference and Papers (David Liston)
  - query: Human Guards for university/college art museums
  - Historical buildings destroyed in Cerro Grande Fire
  - destruction of National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  - Looted Mainland Relics Bought at Auction to Show in Hong Kong
  - International Museum Day and MSN (David Liston)
  
• May 16, 2000
  - public library security
  - U.S. museums release lists of artworks that have gaps in their ownership histories between 1933 and 1945.
  - Stolen Art and the Law
  - Thieves rob churches of artefacts worth GBP.28m
  
• May 15, 2000
  - Re: China takes stock of its looted treasures (Christopher Seal)
  - RE: China takes stock of its looted treasures (Gary Yee)
  - Writer Backed in French Libel Case (Wildenstein versus Feliciano)
  - Painting in eBay auction divides the experts
  - Precious artefact broken by French was already a bust
  
• May 12, 2000
  - Customs and police: partners to museums in the fight against the illicit traffic in cultural property
  - STOP the LOOTING of AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS - The ICOM Red List
  
• May 12, 2000
  - IFCPP News
  - Denounced Museum to Open Its Archive on Internet
  - China takes stock of its looted treasures
  - Despite Legal Troubles, Sotheby's Makes a Strong Showing at Art Auction
  - Piece of history has been stolen from Hatboro
  
• May 11, 2000
  - Questions Arise Over eBay Painting
  - Two Picasso Etchings Stolen From Synagogue
  - WJC asks German museum not to glorify Nazi dealer
  
• May 8, 2000
  - Time and archaeological graverobbers are finally taking their toll on a prehistoric gem that has withstood millions of years of geologic upheaval
  - Christie's and Sotheby's, the big guns of the high-stakes art auction world, launch their annual spring sales this week under a cloud of scandal and with a third player nipping at their heels
  - National Gallery loses Cezanne to auction
  
• May 7, 2000
  - Painting bought for $5 valued at almost $300,000
  - Jewish group wants all Nazi art loot listed on Web
  - BURNED BOOKS AND BLASTED SHRINES: CULTURAL HERITAGE UNDER FIRE IN KOSOVO
  - Howdy Doody Custody Argued in Court
  - Mossad snatches sacred Jewish texts from Saddam
  
• May 3, 2000
  - China buys back looted treasures
  - Collection Care & Management supports museological institutes and private collectors in managing their collections
  - Thriving black market in rare and exotic animals fuels poaching
  - Collectors buried Indian artifacts in their back yard
  
• May 1, 2000
  - Christie's Defies China, Auctions Treasures
  - Sotheby's In Talks With China Over Treasures
  - State's missing painting keeps officials guessing
  
• April 30, 2000
  - Iraq Reopens National Museum After 10-Year Break
  - FW: Book Theft at Yeshurun Library
  - predict the effectiveness of fire intervention strategies for museums
  - Major Information Security Management Seminar Announced
  - Germany Receives Soviet-Seized Art
  - Hong Kong Battles Looted Antiques
  - India to demand return of Koh-i-noor
  
• April 28, 2000
  - The Museum of Modern Art to Maintain Normal Schedule During Strike by United Auto Workers Union Expresses
  - French Heirs Seek Texas Matisse
  - Statue honoring fallen soldiers stolen from New York park
  - Russia to Keep Ownership of War-Looted German Artworks
  - Sotheby's put Freud picture into crusher
  - Amber Room Piece Back in Russia
  - Suggestion From Christie's (Hong Kong) Can Not Be Accepted (He Suzhong)
  - Donaueschingen digital (Klaus Graf)
  
• April 25, 2000
  - RE: (Fwd) Sotheby's and Christie's comments urgently needed! (John Finnegan)
  - RE: (Fwd) Sotheby's and Christie's comments urgently needed! (Clifford Scheiner)
  - RE: (Fwd) Sotheby's and Christie's comments urgently needed! (He Suzhong)
  - Art & Antiquities Insurance Seminar : 8 May 2000 London
  - Fire destroys a beloved historic building
  - India seeks return of looted treasures
  - Welcome Plot Turn for Stolen Antique (custodian tried to sell stolen Book of Hours)
  - TORAH THEFT STUNS BRONX WORSHIPERS
  - RE: Internet Issues & questions for the list members (David Shillingford)
  - Italian Police Recovering Things That Were Caesar's
  - Uninsured churches lose their treasures
  
• April 22, 2000
  - Endangered books and manuscripts in Zambia
  
• April 22, 2000
  (Fwd) Sotheby's and Christie's comments urgently needed!
  
• April 20, 2000: Missing Books and Manuscripts: another impressive Jonathan Sazonoff research achievement.
  
• April 20, 2000, Part II
  - Gold bar robbery in Netherlands museum
  - Christie's Should Stop Auction In Hong Kong At The End Of This Month
  - The Walls Have Ears, and Other High-Tech Crime Gadgets
  - Rare Amber Inclusions Lost
  - Germany Shows Amber Room Furniture
  - Chinese Statue's History Probed
  
• April 20, 2000
  - Valuable painting deteriorates at Secretary of State's office
  - Germany, Russia to exchange looted art
  - Suspects Arrested in Theft of Artifacts From Church
  
• April 19, 2000
  - Query about stolen Van Dyck painting
  - Fire guts historic church; Damage to Immaculate Heart estimated at $1.5M
  - Internet Issues & questions for the list members
  
• April 18, 2000
  - Spain Hackers Sabotage Museum Site
  - Famed Art Museums Announce Joint Internet Venture
  - Re: safes (Dorit Straus)
  - Update - WWII / Holocaust Looted Art Resources (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - EBay pulls items stolen from William Burroughs residence
  - SOTHEBY'S (HONG KONG) Should Stop the Auction
  
• April 16, 2000
  - Re: Why Store objects in a Safe (Steve Keller)
  - Re: Ghosts/Scheiner/Secret passages
  - Britain at centre of world trade in stolen antiquities
  - Seminar on disaster management
  
• April 15, 2000
  - Thieves sweep Detroit for valuable outdoor art; City and suburbs lose sculptures and fixtures
  
• April 14, 2000
  - Lost Art - Beutekunst (Klaus Graf)
  - Stained glass window, rescued from Internet auction, goes back online
  - Why store artifacts in a safe? Isn't it redundant. (Query on Museum-L, and 7 answers. Ignore if this is a cross-posting)
  - Globe-Trotting Artifact Returns to the Idaho Museum of Natural History
  
• April 13, 2000
  - Re: restoration effort of the Piero della Francesca frescoes
  - Nazi art website upsets galleries
  - Re: Ghosts (Clifford Scheiner)
  - Re: Ghosts (Bari Falese and Steve Keller)
  - Papal Skull Taken From Spain Museum
  - Faking a Face (http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/), A Smuggler Disguised an Egyptian Treasure to Masquerade as a Trinket
  - Museums Step Up Holocaust Art Search
  - Chicago Museum Puts Holocaust Art Questions on Web
  
• April 9, 2000
  - Haunted Museums (Steve Keller)
  - "Sprinkle Library" redux (three messages from Exlibris)
  - Legal battle brews over ``Nude on a Black Armchair''
  - French & Italian Stolen Art - notes from the field (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Art hoard puts widow in line for a million
  - Restorers save Renaissance masterpiece
  - Reuniting Art and Owners, German Government to Launch Web Site Monday
  - Boston Museum to post possible Nazi-looted art on Web
  
• April 7, 2000
  - Fire breaks out at National Archives ( Again )
  - Brothers 'sold stately home's fireplaces'
  - China demands return of stolen sculpture
  - Aussie Museum To Return Maori Heads
  
• April 3, 2000
  - Re: Where Does The Collection Of Miho Museum In Japan Come From? Answer !
  
• April 3, 2000
  - Looted Art Returned to Cambodia
  - Stolen Drysdale artworks returned, but precious painting still missing
  - Italian art treasures 'stolen to order'
  - Destruction of churches continues
  
• April 1, 2000
  - Feds Stop Sale of Stolen Chinese Tomb Panel 10th-Century Sculpture Was Set to Be Auctioned
  - Spanish police seize Dali lithograph plates in raid
  
• March 30, 2000
  - Theft from glass museum in Duesseldorf, Germany.
  - Where Does The Collection Of Miho Museum In Japan Come From?
  - Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC
  - Stolen Czar's Dagger Found in CA
  - Nazi-confiscated property
  - Setting up a Library Special Collections Area
  - Tour reignites marbles row
  
• March 26, 2000
  - National Archives Fire 'Intentional'
  - Re: Museum and Cultural Institution Security Industry Standards or Benchmarking (Roger Wulff)
  - Dinosaur put on sale for GBP.15m (Internet offer appalls archeologists who fear historic specimens are being lost to private collectors)
  - Art Museum to sue N.Y. gallery for fraud
  - Re-Uniting Egyptian Royalty (Museum Basements are Proving to be a New Source for Egyptological "Excavations" )
  
• March 25, 2000
  - Mist fire suppression systems
  - UNIFORMS (James Barnhart)
  - Security budget (Steve Keller)
  
• March 24, 2000
  - SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART IV)
  
• March 24, 2000
  - Drysdale painting stolen
  - Security Budgets (Mike Kirchner)
  - Re: uniforms (Steve Keller)
  - A Pottery And Porcelain Kiln Of Song Dynasty Damaged Thoroughly
  - Painting Stolen in Nazi Era Found in Getty Collection
  - Missing Bond art treasures stored in London
  - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Publish List of European Paintings with Nazi-Era Provenance Questions
  
• March 23, 2000
  - SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART III)
  
• March 21, 2000
  - Uniforms for floor staff
  - NYC museum clears famous painting from Nazi taint
  - Ashes of Michigan museum to be searched for relics (Fire destroyed St. Ignace facility that honored Jesuit explorer Marquette)
  
• March 20, 2000
  - NYC museum has famous painting seized by Nazis
  - Russian museums misused funds and lost exhibits, say auditors
  - Tracking artful dodgers 10 years after the heist, culprits still on the loose
  - Plea for stolen art's return (After 10 years, Boston museum is still hopeful)
  
• March 18, 2000
  - Faking a Face
  - Thieves target art galleries
  - Tracking artful dodgers 10 years after the heist, culprits still on the loose
  - Oscar statuettes stolen from Calif. loading dock
  - Los Angeles museum to identify possible Nazi loot
  - U.S.report details which Austrians got property of Holocaust victims
  - Jewish group says it will not deal with Austria
  - Canada rescues war masterpieces from obscurity
  - Workshop/ Conference on Provenance and Due Diligence
  
• March 17, 2000
  - Art Forgery - Sources of Information (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Re: Silent alarms foil thieves' plan to cyber auction stolen goods
  - Artifact security
  - request about Getty
  
• March 16, 2000
  - Silent alarms foil thieves' plan to cyber auction stolen goods
  - New York City museum says Rubens is not Nazi loot
  - Painting Abandoned to Nazis Is Returned
  - Museum red-flags 1425 work
  - Art Institute of Chicago negotiating with Holocaust victim's heir over painting
  - Art Attack! (Heiress Benefactor Says She'll Cut Off the Whitney Museum)
  - Mafia blamed for fire at Naples castle
  - Violin dealer accused of million-pound fiddle
  
• March 15, 2000
  - Notes from the field - Gardner Theft's 10th Anniversary
  - Germany's Net Stolen and Found (valuables confiscated by Stasi)
  - Workshop on disaster preparedness
  
• March 11, 2000
  - Museum Says Painting May Have Been Nazi Loot
  - Antique jewelry stolen from show booths at Expo Center
  - The biggest piece of jewellery in the world (the Amber Room)
  - Group Urges Rubens Painting Probe
  - U.S. commission to turn spotlight on Holocaust art
  
• March 10, 2000
  - RE: David Hickman's question on guard force response
  
• March 8, 2000
  - Gathering policies re: Theft in Reading Rooms
  - Philadelphia Job Filled
  - Stolen Tiffany
  - JOUSTING OVER THE PARTHENON MARBLES
  - U.S. to delete electronic records
  - Israeli experts propose museums keep looted art
  
• March 7, 2000
  - Dealer Pleads Guilty to Selling Stolen Relics Smuggling: Police had seized 133 items, looted from Turkish archeological sites, at Encino store. Customs agents valued the lot between $4,000 and $5,000.
  - looted degas painting
  
• March 6, 2000
  - all stolen Henk Helmantel paintings are on line at: http://www.museumsecurity.org/helmantel
  - The Case of the Missing Murals (Two missing Mexican wall paintings allegedly found in Moscow)
  - Archival Aids - Training Program on Internet for Chinese Related Authorities on Movable Cultural Property Was Held Last Week in Beijing
  
• March 2, 2000
  - Colossal Art Theft in The Netherlands
  - Disaster at Canada's National Library - Again
  
• March 1, 2000, part II
  - U.S. returns smuggled artwork, asks Italy to combat piracy
  - Pillagers of ancient site jailed
  - O'Keeffe Dealer Has Doubts
  - U.S. museum finds painting handled by Nazi dealer
  - http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/spoilation.html
  Spoliation of works of art during the Holocaust and World War II period First Progress Report on Provenance Research for the Period 1933-1945
  
• March 1, 2000
  - query: Repatriation Law for Artifacts (Clifford Scheiner)
  - A MUST READ at:
  http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/read/071199/index.html
  THE PAST IN PERIL: LOST TREASURES OF PERU
  Robbing the history of a nation
  By Mike Toner Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer
  - British art galleries checked for Nazi loot
  - Difficulties in proving ownership
  - A list of works of unknown provenance has gone on the Internet
  - Proving ownership is a legal minefield
  - Why museums may have been too scrupulous
  
• February 29, 2000
  - news at http://www.culturalheritagewatch.org/indexenglish.html
  - Ancient Artifacts Recovered in Oklahoma (stolen from Turkish tombs)
  - Indian group sued over meteorite
  - 9th Century Koran Returned to Turkey (no evidence it was improperly removed from Turkey, but its origin was unclear)
  
• February 28, 2000
  - Museum and Cultural Property CD-ROM (Steve Keller)
  - "Arrogance" (Steve Keller)
  
• February 27, 2000
  - Re: query: Protection of paintings (Clifford Scheiner)
  - Re: query: Protection of paintings (Klaus K. Zimmermann)
  - FBI Looks for Stolen Ax Head (Stone Age Artifact Shed Light on Early Americans)
  - Thieves net art worth $2 million
  - Revealed: memo that led to probe into Sotheby's
  
• February 26, 2000
  news release:35 Hendrik Helmantel paintings stolen.
  
• February 25, 2000
  - Protection of painting
  - Destruction of Famous Cities of Historic and Cultural Value in China Has Aroused the Indignation of the People
  - Aboriginal art industry grows up - and faces fraud
  - Art dealers seek Euro curbs on auction fees
  - Harvard art historian disputes authenticity of Renaissance painting
  
• February 24, 2000
  - Michel van Rijn (Scottland Yard tapes on line)
  
• February 23, 2000
  - request: legal issues regarded art looted from China (yinghua chen)
  - Popular Culture - Stolen Art on Television (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  - Treasure hunt: part the magnificent Sevso silver hoard (Scotland Yard double-crossed by criminals in silver treasure sting)
  - London gallery has treasures grabbed by the Nazis
  - Getty Museum Security Guard Wins $1.5 Million in Court Battle Against Outside Contractor
  - Top Executives Quit Sotheby's as Art World Inquiry Widens
  
• February 20, 2000
  - Re: MSN direction (Andrew Cranwell)
  - Re: MSN direction (Robin Rogers)
  - Re: MSN direction (Jack Watts)
  - Israel restores ownership of Nazi-looted Pissarro
  - The Bayeux Tapestry 'was made in England' ("We have taken a lot of criticism over the Elgin Marbles. It is time we redressed the balance and demand the Bayeux Tapestry come home to England")
  - More than 100 Tate paintings on list of suspected Nazi loot
  
• February 18, 2000
  - moderator's message about presentation at National Conference
  3 messages on MSN's aims:
  - In response to Ton and Steve (Elisabeth Thoburn)
  - Re: MSN direction (Jennifer Barrett)
  - OK.OK. I'll say something... (Reid Bailey)
  - long-term loan query
  - Gifts from U.S. sitting ducks for Moscow thieves
  - Police closing in on missing Tucker paintings
  - DISASTER! Has it happened to you?
  - Britain takes lead in returning art stolen by the Nazis
  
• February 17, 2000
  - Re: MSN direction (Steve Keller)
  
• February 17, 2000
  - Re: Re: feedback on MSN goals (Robin Rogers)
  - Re: Re: feedback on MSN goals (moderator's reaction)
  - Information Wanted: Canadian Confederation Heirloom
  - Copernicus Tempts Thieves Worldwide
  - Nazis Stole 600,000 Pieces of Art
  - Feb. update - notes on stolen art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
  
• February 15, 2000
  - Vandals dig up part of old grave
  - Careful planning preceded 25 years of coin, stamp thefts
  - De Young to Show Paintings Damaged in Thieves' Hands
  - Surrealist sculpture stolen in Mexico City (Thieves dump it days later)
  - Rare gold Italian platter returned to Sicily
  
• February 14, 2000
  - MSN GOALS
  
• February 12, 2000
  - robber jailed for gun terror at gallery
  - Modern Is Focus of a New Dispute Over a Painting
  - Historic home, where artist lived, destroyed in fire
  - DISASTER-RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK
  
• February 10, 2000
  - Fossils Being Plundered by Thieves
  - Iraqi Museum Recovers Artifacts
  
• February 9, 2000
  - Picassos recovered 5 years after Zurich gallery theft
  - Stolen Baroque, Renaissance masterpieces found
  - Re: Reporting on damage to artifacts (David Shillingford)
  - The International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection announces Second Annual Conference, Seminar, and Exhibits, November 3-6, 2000 in Denver, Colorado
  - Re: Reporting on damage to artifacts (Christine M. Ford)
  
• February 8, 2000
  - Art Crime - Column on-line
  - Thai stone carvers are at the center of criminal activity
  - Will Britain lose its Marbles? (If the British Museum returned Lord Elgin's treasures to Greece, how safe would any loot be?)
  - Reward Offered for Missing Shrunken Head ($16,000 Artifact Stolen from Museum)
  - Cézanne heist a movie carbon copy
  - Plundered art on the line
  - Scopes Papers Sought After Fire
  
• February 7, 2000
  - Mudslide threat to Peruvian art
  - Greece offered deal for Elgin Marbles
  - Lawrence University Suffers Theft of Rare Books
  - N.C. Museum Has Nazi-Looted Art
  - Book By Copernicus Stolen From Saint Petersburg Library
  - Re: STOLEN: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (Owen Gingerich)
  - Reporting on damage to artifacts
  - Historic one-room school torched
  - Painting in hallway was Old Master worth GBP.2m
  
• January 31, 2000
  - 2nd protocol to Hague Convention -additions to Unesco website
  - Michel van Rijn pages (several subscribers have asked me for more information about MvR)
  - looking for a company that can supply a bar code scanner to control or summons an elevator (Ross Brand)
  - CoPAT website launched
  - searching for photographs dealing with water damage (Rob Benoit)
  - Plans Made To Preserve Kosovo's Cultural Heritage
  - The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the publication of the third edition of Preservation of Library & Archival Materials
  
• January 30, 2000
  Notorious art and antiquities smuggler Michel van Rijn goes public
  
• January 30, 2000
  - Museum Refunded for Fake O'Keefees
  - New Director-General of Antiquities chief will have his hands full
  - Archeologists pummel Solidere man
  - Another news story on the St. Johnsbury fire
  - Texan Loses Bid To Seize Artifacts
  
• January 28, 2000
  - Stolen U.S.-Soviet Space Artifact Recovered
  - International Conference on Natural History Museums
  - NJ - Van Riper House burns in Nutley
  - Workshop on disaster recovery
  
• January 26, 2000
  - International Cultural Property Protection (new URL: http://e.usia.gov/education/culprop)
  - Site now locked to keep vandals from trashing history
  - Ichabod's owner to repay $154,000 (ordered by a judge to repay $154,000 allegedLY made from a stolen-book ring.)
  - Court Allows Platter Forfeiture (Supreme Court rejected appeal of man whose antique Italian gold platter was confiscated by the government over a false statement on a customs form.)
  
• January 23, 2000
  - Britain Returns Egyptian Sculpture
  - Boy Allegedly Pawned Granny's Antique Pottery ($130,000 Collection Fetched $1,300 on Street)
  
• January 21, 2000
  - Re: Web Site to List Artworks Lost to the Nazis Registry should speed up process of restoring valuables previously owned by Jewish victims
  - Jailed Muslim leader 'innocent victim' (Smuggling antiquities from Egypt)
  - 'Bizarre' Group Seeks Ransom for Indian Pottery ('Liberation Army' Claims It Robbed Museum; Security system bypassed)
  - British police find two stolen paintings worth $1.6 million
  
• January 20, 2000
  - Ezra Pound Collection Lost
  - Controversial archaeology student detained for 'pillaging'
  - Message Board for Posting Stolen Items (antiques and collectibles) http://peacelist.com/stolen/
  
• January 19, 2000
  - Egypt jails Australian for smuggling antiquities
  - Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact (raiding tombs and stealing artifacts: a game??)
  - Robert E. Lee Portrait Vandalized at Art Show (Inclusion in Lee-Jackson-King Day Display Was Controversial)
  - Press Release about Galina Blinova (Roger Wulff)
  - Calgary Museum to Return Sacred Aboriginal Artifacts
  
• January 18, 2000
  - High Court rejects petition to halt Wakf's work on Temple Mount
  - Web Site to List Artworks Lost to the Nazis
  Registry should speed up process of restoring valuables previously owned by Jewish victims
  
• January 16, 2000
  - Hemingway letter stolen
  - Sotheby's pays out GBP.250,000 after inside theft
  
• January 15, 2000
  - Historic Space Artifacts Stolen from U.S. Museum
  - Norway Cops Recover German Jewelry
  
• January 14, 2000
  - Antiques, antler pieces seized
  - Construction may endanger Harvard's historical site
  - Would you buy an Old Master online?
  - 'Stolen' Cézanne was landlord's own work
  
• January 13, 2000
  - RE: Y2K (adalberto biasiotti)
  - Austrian art in dispute: Were portraits bequeathed by owner or stolen by Nazis?
  - Austrian Museum May Have Looted Art
  - Bidding Begins On SOTHEBYS.COM
  
• January 9, 2000
  - Y2kaye Problems? (Ron Lander)
  - 4 Detained in Theft of Koran
  - Reward offered for stolen artwork: Theft troubles Folsom residents
  - Kazimir Malevich and claims for return paintings M
  
• January 6, 2000
  - Court Library Donaueschingen (KlausGraf)
  - re: art vault standards
  - Re: Moderator's message (Chris Stanley)
  - Nazi loot may line American shelves (Some books are now part of the Library of Congress)
  
• January 4, 2000
  - Moderator's message (new page on MSN website)
  - MORE ON ASHMOLEAN BREAK-IN (Patrick Boylan)
  - Physical Intervention (Gene Hickman)
  - Re: request for feedback (Michael Gips)
  - Re: Stolen Items on Ebay (Steve Keller)
  - Fossil site was stripped clean By Dale Gnidovec
  - Holocaust Museum Director Dies
  
• January 1, 2000
  - Moderator's message (What I really want is that all of you accept your personal responsibility for this list and send your thoughts about MSN and it's present and future role. The MSN service is and will remain free for everyone. The mere fact that there is no money involved does not mean that I do not have the right to challenge you and let you know that the quality of our list depends on it's participants (subscribers) and not just on me........)
  - Cezanne Painting Stolen in Oxford
  - query: art vault
  - Call for Help on the Website: Culturalheritagewatch (The Museum Security Organization has decided to support this endeavor. Soon there will be a website at: http:///www.culturalheritagewatch.org/ which will be financially take care of by MSN for two years)
  - Blaze Damages Historic Hudson Home
  - New System (Francisco de la Fuente)