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Archive for November, 2007
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Soaring prices in the art market have escalated the value of these pilfered pieces beyond what even the thieves could have imagined.
Saturday, November 24th, 2007The Gallery of Stolen Art by Richard B. Woodward December 2007 Issue Soaring prices in the art market have escalated the value of these pilfered pieces beyond what even the thieves could have imagined. Johannes Vermeer's The Concert, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
Swiss and Peruvian experts have presented a "red list" of Peru's cultural heritage that is particularly at risk from looting and illegal art traffickers.
Saturday, November 24th, 2007November 23, 2007 - 12:42 PM Red alert goes out for stolen treasures Swiss and Peruvian experts have presented a "red list" of Peru's cultural heritage that is particularly at risk from looting and illegal art traffickers.They hope to draw people's attention to the "irreparable loss" for the country and for ...
Fakes and counterfeits; James Fenton on the art of forgery – and getting away with it ; The jailing of Shaun Greenhalgh, the Bolton forger, for conspiracy to defraud art institutions is instructive
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Fakes and counterfeitsJames Fenton on the art of forgery - and getting away with it Saturday November 24, 2007The Guardian The jailing of Shaun Greenhalgh, the Bolton forger, for conspiracy to defraud art institutions is instructive. "Forgeries," as Otto Kurz wrote in his 1948 handbook Fakes, "hunt in packs." That is, ...
Protected: Former Getty curator Marion True faces antiquities smuggling trial next week
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Schone Kunsten, en nu nog schone handen! Speech bij de presentatie van het rapport “Schone kunsten; preventieve doorlichting kunst- en antiekhandel”
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Amsterdam, 20 november 2007. Dr. Steven Engelsman, directeur Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden. Dames en Heren, Wat een fantastische dag, vandaag, nu hier de resultaten van de preventieve doorlichting van de kunst- en antiekhandel worden gepresenteerd. En de algemene conclusie is dat de handel in schone kunsten ook grosso modo een schone handel is. Geen ...
DIRECTIVE 2007/60/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Please follow this link to read the full text.
Curators hope to wake up Africa's sleepy museums
Monday, November 12th, 2007Curators hope to wake up Africa's sleepy museums Mon 12 Nov 2007, 13:14 GMT By Alistair Thomson DAKAR, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Shaded from the searing sun by the grand portico of Dakar's Museum of African Arts, a security guard sleeps on a chair as a solitary visitor wanders in -- a ...
Minerva holding back details
Monday, November 12th, 2007I confess that Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology has not been one of my favourite magazines. I have not changed my views since 1990 when Kevin Butcher and I published a review article of the first few numbers. Its founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher is Dr Jerome Eisenberg. ...
The Case of the Elgin Marbles
Monday, November 12th, 2007The Case of the Elgin Marbles Posted on November 11th At the end of the summer of 2007, the week before fall university classes began, Greece was on fire. The Peloponnese was uniformly scorched, nearly a hundred people were killed, rural economies were displaced, and flora and fauna indigenous only to ...
THE LOGIC OF NON-RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS FROM THE MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY.
Monday, November 12th, 2007THE LOGIC OF NON-RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS FROM THE MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY: Kwame Opoku Written by Dr. Kwame Opoku Sunday, 11 November 2007 THE LOGIC OF NON-RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS FROM THE MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY. I thought I had heard all the desperate arguments and explanations from European and ...
Subsidie risicoanalyses via de Mondriaanstichting (en risicoklasse-indeling)
Sunday, November 11th, 20071 november 2007 Subsidie risicoanalyses via de Mondriaanstichting Het Ministerie van OCW stelt via de Mondriaanstichting subsidie beschikbaar voor het laten verrichten van een risicoanalyse. Deze subsidie bedraagt 100% van de kosten. Voorwaarden: - de analyse moet worden verricht door een professionele externe partij (analyses die in eigen beheer worden gemaakt komen niet voor ...
TELEVISION producers yesterday staged a reconstruction of the theft of a Leonardo da Vinci painting from a Scottish castle.
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Painting theft reconstructed for TV TELEVISION producers yesterday staged a reconstruction of the theft of a Leonardo da Vinci painting from a Scottish castle. Thieves snatched the Madonna with the Yarnwinder, estimated to be worth between £25 million and £50 million, from Drumlanrig Castle, near Dumfries, on 27 August. The reconstruction took place ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007The Museum Security Network mailing list has been active since December 1996. The 'old' archive from the lists' start until April 2003 was maintained manually. Since April 2003 we have an automated archive. Please browse both archives before subscribing to the list.
Auckland. Police used 'unorthodox' method to recover buried art – 11 Nov 2007
Sunday, November 11th, 2007This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --bound1194765022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Police used 'unorthodox' method to recover buried art 5:00AM Sunday November 11, 2007 By Cliff Taylor Auckland art gallery principal conservator Sarah Hillary repairing the Goldie painting. Photo / Jason Dorday Auckland art gallery principal conservator Sarah Hillary repairing the Goldie painting. Photo / ...
Security in the Kunsthistorische Museum was below all standards, but museum director tries to save his image by complimenting an ordinairy thief.
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Museum Security Network Mailinglist Tue Jan 24 07:18:11 CET 2006 Seipel (Director of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna): Saliera-Dieb war "Experte" (Austrian museum director says thief was highly specialized expert). Security in the Kunsthistorische Museum was below all standards, but museum director tries to save his image by complimenting an ordinairy thief. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Alarmopvolging met ingang van 1 april 2008
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Alarmopvolging met ingang van 1 april 2008 Begin 2007 heeft de Raad van Hoofdcommissarissen (Nederlands Politie Instituut) een convenant afgesloten met het Verbond van Beveiligingsorganisaties (VvBO). Aanleiding was het feit dat de politie in veel gevallen nodeloos werd gewaarschuwd en er zeer veel capaciteit verloren ging met het ...
Een bewegingsmelder hier en een camera daar en we zijn beveiligd? Ton Cremers
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Een bewegingsmelder hier en een camera daar en we zijn beveiligd? Ton Cremers; toncremers@museum-security.org toncremers@gmail.com De inbraak in het Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wenen en de diefstal van Benvenuto Cellini’s SALIERA – waarde geschat op 50 miljoen Euro - op 11 mei 2003 duurde precies 56 seconden, maar het lag niet aan de beveiliging volgens ...
Als je bang bent voor waterschade moet je een sprinklerinstallatie nemen
Saturday, November 10th, 2007November 2007 Lees Als je bang bent voor waterschade moet je een sprinklerinstallatie nemen. Dit PDF bestand wordt voortdurend ge-update. Op 7 februari 2008 organiseert de sectie Veiligheidszorg en Facilitymanagement van de Museumvereniging een themabijeenkomst over sprinklers.
[MSN] Much to the disappointment of visitors,
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Prints replace originals at art exhibition Agnes Winarti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Much to the disappointment of visitors, the Jakarta Historical Museum is keeping several original paintings in storage and displaying prints instead. "I thought I would be able to see real paintings. I could find prints like these on the internet," said ...
Alarmopvolging met ingang van 1 april 2008
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Alarmopvolging met ingang van 1 april 2008 Begin 2007 heeft de Raad van Hoofdcommissarissen (Nederlands Politie Instituut) een convenant afgesloten met het Verbond van Beveiligingsorganisaties (VvBO). Aanleiding was het feit dat de politie in veel gevallen nodeloos werd gewaarschuwd en er zeer veel capaciteit verloren ging met het ...
Markeren / ‘taggen’ museumobjecten, mogelijkheden en beperkingen
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Markeren / ‘taggen’ museumobjecten, mogelijkheden en beperkingen Het markeren van eigendommen is niet nieuw. Vrijwel ieder museaal prentenkabinet of archief heeft prenten, tekeningen, topografische kaarten, manuscripten of oude charters in het bezit die gemarkeerd zijn met stempels. Die stempels zijn niet alleen in de marge van de ...
Restitutions culturelles: où donner de la tête?
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Restitutions culturelles: où donner de la tête? | 00h05 Tout le monde exige, des Maoris aux Grecs. Le point avec des cas actuels. ÉTIENNE DUMONT | 10 Novembre 2007 | 00h05 Bisbille en France. Le Muséum de Rouen veut restituer de son propre chef aux Maoris la tête tatouée et momifiée qu'il détient ...
Latest news about cultural property (automated)
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Latest news about cultural property
Looted Art Returns to Italy From NY
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007ROME (AP) — Italian authorities claimed another victory in their campaign against the illegal antiquities market Tuesday, unveiling eight Etruscan or Roman artifacts they say were looted from the country and returned by a New York art dealer. The ancient treasures, including a Roman statue, bronze figurines, and exquisitely painted vases, ...
