Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
By Joel Goldenberg, The Suburban
A $300,000 painting stolen nearly 18 years ago from the McGill Faculty Club has been retrieved and returned to the university, The Suburban has learned.
On May 21, 1990, an 87-year-old oil painting called Spring Landscape-Athabasca by Quebec impressionist Marc-Aurèle Suzor Côté was stolen after a break-in ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
A valuable painting stolen from the Buffalo Club in 1995 has been recovered.
“Sleep,” created more than a century ago by J. Carroll Beckwith, was identified last month at a Florida art show by an art historian for a New York City database that has helped locate millions of dollars ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Danger "artnapping" !
Pauvre Van Gogh ! Après avoir été interné à l'asile de Saint-Rémy-de- Provence, le voici dans celui de Zurich, en Suisse. C'est en effet sur le parking de la clinique psychiatrique du Burghölzli qu'a été retrouvé le 19 février le tableau qui lui est attribué, Branches de marronnier ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
In his interview of January 27, 2008 with Richard Lacayo, “A Talk With: James Cuno” http://www.elginism.com/20080201/976/, Cuno, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, makes many controversial statements but I will like to comment only on a few.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Treasure-troves at risk; Thefts cost billions as experts work to step up security of artifacts
By PAUL GRONDAHL, Staff writer
The reasons are many: the sheer volume; incomplete inventories; the cost of security; the value of the artifacts amid a growing demand from collectors; and the fact the documents are routinely retrieved ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
5-year investigation has implications for many museums
Jori Finkel, New York Times Sunday, February 24, 2008
It just might rank as one of the biggest accidental discoveries in archaeology. In the summer of 1966, a Harvard student named Steve Young was living in a village in the northeast reaches of Thailand, going door ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
The historical city of Bagamoyo falling apart
24 Feb 2008; By Lucas Lukumbo
She warns that if it continues unchecked, the historical town, rich history would to a greater extent be tempered with. Staff Writer Lucas Lukumbo who visited the historical town reports...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Er soll Berlin das Stadtschloss nahebringen, im Beutekunst-Streit schlichten, 17 Museen leiten: Von Hermann Parzinger werden Wundertaten erwartet.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Cultural Property: its Illicit Trafficking and Restitution
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Armed robbers attacked staff in Doornik church, Belgium and robbed a very valuable 8th century Byzantine cross. Estimated value € 25 million.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
ZURICH, Switzerland: Swiss media reported Monday that paintings stolen in one of Europe's largest art thefts have been discovered in a parking lot in front of a Zurich mental hospital.
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
For those of you interested in the story about this stolen painting:
http://www.museum-security.org/?p=174 or http://www.museum-security.org/?p=176
See photos:
Cesare Ferrari di Valbona in Niedersaechsische Landesmuseum, Hannover
Museum left out provenance information
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Wellington - Nearly 100 medals, including nine Victoria Crosses - the highest award for military gallantry in the British Commonwealth - have been recovered undamaged after being stolen from the New Zealand Army museum in December, police said on Saturday. The 96 returned medals included the Victoria Cross and bar ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Landgericht Hannover bescheinigt Niedersächsischem Landesmuseum Gutgläubigkeit beim Erwerb eines Tiepolo-Gemäldes trotz gutachterlich belegter Zweifel an der Rechtmäßigkeit des Erwerbs
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
From: kwame opoku [mailto:k.opoku@sil.at]
Sent: dinsdag 12 februari 2008 19:41
It is simply amazing how Eurocentric and selfish many of the arguments of the defenders of plunder and stealing of other people’s cultural property are. The opponents of restitution seem completely oblivious of the interests of countries trying to secure the return ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The Regional Court of Hanover (Landgericht Hannover) attests that the Niedersächsische Landesmuseum acquired a Tiepolo painting in good faith despite expert concerns regarding the lawfulness of this acquisition.
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NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS LEGAL IS ETHICAL. NO MUSEUM SHOULD HOLD ON TO STOLEN OBJECTS, NOT EVEN IF THEY BOUGHT THOSE AS GOOD ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Zurich Gang Grabs $163 Million Art Haul From Museum (Update3)By Marc Wolfensberger and Linda Sandler
Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Three armed robbers wearing ski masks took the impressionist and post-impressionist paintings from the E.G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich's Eighth District in an afternoon raid yesterday, 30 minutes before it closed, police ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
There is usually little romance in art theftBy John Ashlock
In Dr No, the first James Bond film made in 1962, the normally imperturbable agent does a double take as he is shown around the home of the evil and reclusive Dr Julius No.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Paintings worth about $91 million were stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery in the second dramatic art theft in the area within days, police said on Monday.
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
ON THE FIRST floor of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, in the early Greek art galleries, there is a long display case filled with Athenian ceramics. In one corner, partway up the linen backing, are two holes, a couple of inches apart, where a shelf holding a small, 2,500-year-old oil ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Yet tax experts say that the pattern of deceit outlined in court papers — appraising art objects for amounts just below a threshold that sets off higher scrutiny — is frequently investigated by the criminal enforcement arm of the Internal Revenue Service.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Un archeologo egiziano mostra la statua del dio dei cimiteri, Petah Sakar. Un tesoro da proteggereMa il problema si intensifica con le aste su internet. Lo scorso mese di dicembre, le autorità svizzere sono riuscite a bloccare la vendita in rete di un bene culturale iracheno protetto.
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