Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Russia set to allow art exhibit to travel to U.K.
31/12/2007 13:08 MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will allow an art exhibition to travel to Britain after it enacted a new law on Monday protecting loaned artworks from seizure over legal claims, a senior Russian culture official said. Russian authorities ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Experts fear that the collection, which featured two gold coins of priceless historical value, could have been melted down. One of the coins can be dated back to 1826 and was worth up to £35,000. The gang of about six men and two women targeted two men from Dix Noonan ...
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
U.K. Passes Art Immunity Order to Clear Way for Russian Exhibit. Culture Secretary James Purnell issued a legal order, to take effect from 12:01 a.m. London time tonight, to meet Russian concern that U.K. law did not protect artworks loaned from abroad against third-party seizure, the ministry said in an e-mailed ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
David Gill's LOOTING MATTERS blog.
Images and links
Marion True has presented her side of the recent saga of returning antiquities in an extended interview with Hugh Eakin ("Treasure Hunt: The Downfall of the Getty Curator Marion True", New Yorker, December 17, 2007). True became curator of antiquities at the J. ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Broken pieces of stolen artefacts recovered
Experts primarily confirm their genuineness
Julfikar Ali Manik and Emran Hossain
Officials of the National Museum look at the recovered pieces of broken Vishnu statues at Amin Bazar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. Two Vishnu statues were stolen from the Zia International Airport on December ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
ZIA-based smuggling ring destroyed stolen artefactsClaims Rab after arrest of 10 more but fails to recover remains in daylong search; motive still unexplainedJulfikar Ali Manik and Pinaki Roy
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
By Suzan Mazur
(left) Thracian boxer ----------<<< >>>>------------- Three "ithyphallic" satyrs (right)
Hugh Eakin’s recent "Treasure Hunt" story in The New Yorker profiling Marion True, the former Getty curator on trial in Rome for conspiracy to traffic in ancient art, devotes a column to True’s 1991 paper on the destruction of ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
The exhibit “To whom do these canvases belong? French policy on seeking the provenance, custodianship and restitution of art works looted during World War II” will be held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem from February 19 to June 4, and from June 24 to September 28 at the ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Bangladesh Arrests 8 After Statue Theft
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) —
Col. Gulzar Uddin Ahmed of the Rapid Action Battalion said authorities were using information given by the suspects to carry out raids on premises near the capital to recover two terra-cotta statues of Hindu god Vishnu.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Brazil Police Suspect Employee in Picasso Theft, Globo Reports
By Adriana Brasileiro
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) --
The security guard encouraged his colleagues to sleep while on duty overnight, telling them he would watch the video from security cameras, Globo said.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Grania Litwin
Times Colonist
Thursday, December 27, 2007
It's called Treasures Unearthed: Chinese Archeological Artifacts, but the exhibition now on display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria could also have been called Tomb Raiders because it features almost 500 objects stolen from Chinese tombs.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
INTERPOL a informé ses pays membres que deux tableaux de très grande valeur - dont un Picasso - avaient été volés au Musée d'art de Sao Paulo (Brésil) le jeudi 20 décembre.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Ukrainian police finds stolen painting by Russian classic artist25.12.2007, 22.18
LVOV, December 25 (Itar-Tass) - Ukrainian police have found a painting by the classical Russian realistic painter Ilya Repin that was stolen in April from a museum of arts in the West-Ukrainian city of Ternopol. Vitaly Maksimov, the chief of Interior ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Govt decision to stop sending artefacts hailed.
Archaeologists and eminent citizens who had been opposing sending the country's artefacts to an exhibition in France welcomed the government decision of cancelling any further shipment of the artefacts until the relic heist incidence is resolved. They also expressed their concern over retrieval of ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
La malédiction du musée Guimet
Des sculptures en bronze et en pierre, des terres cuites, des manuscrits des périodes où prédominaient le bouddhisme et l'hindouisme, ainsi que des monnaies en argent et des objets décoratifs des sultans musulmans devaient être exposés. Un trésor archéologique et artistique dont les pièces les ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Bangladesh wants return of artifacts loaned to France
Tue Dec 25, 2007 1:45pm GMT
DHAKA (Reuters) - "The Guimet Museum (in Paris) would be informed, regretfully, that it would not be possible to go ahead with holding the exhibition of the items as planned," a statement from the office of the ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh cancelled plans to send rare artefacts to Paris for a museum exhibition next year after two ancient statues of a Hindu deity were stolen en route to France.
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
The index of Museum Security Network mailing list messages (2,427) is available on line as a Word document at:
http://www.museumbeveiliging.com/MSN_messages_2007.doc
Via this Word document all individual messages can be reached.
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Russia May Allow Show in London After U.K. Speeds Up Art Law
By Henry Meyer
Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia may give the go-ahead to a London exhibition of works from its museums after the U.K. government pledged to speed up passage of legislation protecting artworks from seizure.
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Vishnu is the second god in the Hindu triumvirate, which consists of three gods responsible for the creation, upkeep and destruction of the world.
The other two gods are Brahma and Shiva. Hinduism is a minority faith in Bangladesh, which is overwhelmingly Muslim.
The government's cultural affairs adviser, Ayub Quadri, ...
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
It was a spectacular sight by all accounts. A huge mass of marble covered with protective white material was raised from the top of one of the most well known rock tops in the world, the rock of Akropolis, some 165 meters above sea level, and was gently lowered down ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
2 Paris-bound statues stolen from ZIA
France finds it 'highly suspicious'
Staff Correspondent
Named 'Vishnu' and 'Bust of Vishnu', the statues are from Gupta era of the seventh century. Since being discovered in a dig at Mahasthangarh of Bogra, they had been kept at the National Museum. Their insurance value totalled 45,000 euros ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Prince Jefri at heart of Royal Academy's Russian art theft fears
Written by queen mudder
London - (Even Worse Ass Mess): Brunei's most accomplished terrorist gangster Prince Jefri Archer is at the heart of allegations that artworks systematically looted from the UK ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Michael Reppas realized a lifelong dream last summer when he was granted the rare opportunity to set foot inside the Parthenon, a 2,500-year-old Greek structure that has been off limits to tourists for more than 15 years.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Thieves who stole a valuable Picasso painting from a Brazilian art museum this week apparently didn't have to work very hard. On Friday, officials admitted there wasn't much of a security system in place at the cash-strapped museum.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Redacción BBC Mundo
El "Retrato de Suzanne Bloch", de Picasso, está valorado en US$50 millones.
Los responsables del Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, en Brasil, donde esta semana robaron dos cuadros con un valor estimado de más de US$50 millones, admitieron que la colección no estaba asegurada.
Además, reconocieron que ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
ABN Amro sells its art for €1
Friday 21 December 2007
ABN Amro sold its important art collection for a symbolic €1 to the ABN Amro Art Collection Foundation, just prior to the bank being taken over, the Telegraaf reports on Friday.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Suzanne B. Stryker | campwiseacres@yahoo.com | paintyoga.com |
This is the second time a painting of mine was stolen from my art exhibits this year – both were stolen from my solo shows at Entree Café Gallery in Fairfield Iowa, USA, which is in a busy section of town right across ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Pablo Picasso, “Portrait of Suzanne Bloch”, 1904
Candido Portinari, “The Coffee Worker”, 1939
Thieves steal two valuable paintings from Sao Paulo Museum in a dawn raid on 20 December 2007
In the early hours of the 20December 2007 thieves broke into the Sao Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil, using only a crow ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Picasso stolen from Brazil museum photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7154101.stm
Police said Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, and The Coffee Worker by Brazil's Candido Portinari, were taken from the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo. The operation, which lasted about three minutes, was caught on security cameras, officials said.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Commentary by Martin Gayford Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Not since the days of the ingenious Dutchman Han van Meegeren has a forgery got so far. On Dec. 12, the Art Institute of Chicago said that ``The Faun,'' a ceramic sculpture attributed to Paul Gauguin in the museum's collection, was really the work ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Located on a flat rock in the heart of Athens, the 5th-century BC structure is a beacon of antiquity that will soon be complemented by a modern museum at the southern foot of the Sacred Rock. According to Greece's Minister of Culture Mihalis Liapis, the transfer of antiquities to the Acropolis ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Italian Antiquities Going Home
On Friday, On Friday, nearly 70 ancient masterpieces will go on display in Rome's Quirinale Palace. The exhibition is more than a celebration of the wonders of Roman, Greek and Etruscan art: it's the payoff for a long campaign the country's cultural authorities have waged against museums ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Tonkrieger-Schau macht dicht!Direktor Köpke zieht Konsequenz aus Skandal um die gefälschten Figuren
UTE GEBAUER, CAROLA GROSSE-WILDE
Scheibchenweise kam der Skandal ans Licht, jetzt steht zweifelsfrei fest: Bei den angeblich 2000 Jahre alten chinesischen Terrakotta-Kriegern im Museum für Völkerkunde handelt es sich lediglich um billige Kopien, die es in China an jeder Ecke ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
There's No Place but Home For This Stolen Italian Art
By Sarah Delaney
Special to The Washington PostWednesday, December 19, 2007; C01
ROME -- An unusual exhibit of archaeological treasures opens this week here with a very clear message: Italy will no longer sit back while its artistic patrimony is spirited out of ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- In the latest sign of tense relations between Moscow and London, Russian officials have pulled an art exhibition that was supposed to travel to Britain next month, a Russian museum director told CNN on Wednesday.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Subject: Director of Protection Services - Shelburne Museum
Message:
Director of Protection Services
Protection Services
Full time, year round position
Posted December 13, 2007
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The Director of Protection Services is responsible for the development and management of the security operations of the Museum. The Director of Protection Services as a member of the senior staff reports ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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