Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
* Thefts of prized artwork from museums are rare (When artwork is stolen from a museum, Magness-Gardiner added, 80 percent of the cases involve an inside actor, such as a staff member, docent or patron, and the art is commonly snatched from a storeroom.)
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/a0a79a5d7d36c529?hl=en
* Vasarely's daughter-in-law surrenders passport in art ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
STOLEN ART OBJECTS FROM ONE "UNIVERSAL MUSEUM" - LOUVRE PARIS TO ANOTHER -
LOUVRE ABU DHABI?
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/80e8454b9f42e81d#
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
* Rare Iraqi Jewish books surface in Israel: report
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/303e6568a8f34420?hl=en
* HAMMOND - Police recovered the missing bronze head of a city of Hammond founding father from a canal at Zemurray Park Thursday morning.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/23e6559a784e0bfd?hl=en
* New weapon to fight theft of Khmer relics: ICOM Red List to be published in September
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/b54d25dac21cb4c1?hl=en
* Hungarian Police ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
* Squabbles between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments) are wreaking havoc on the fate of Egypt's Islamic monuments, reports Nevine El-Aref
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/7a515696780543d3?hl=en
* CHICAGO - A torrid tale of betrayal, theft and a family feud has led to the arrest of a 61-year-old French woman ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
* Art fairs have become a target for thieves (Art+Auction)
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/ed532205826e6f53?hl=en
* Federal agents seized about 1,700 artifacts from Miles Simpson's collection of American Indian antiquities. More than three years later, the Bend man is working to get it all back - and he insists he did nothing wrong
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/5464c71ca68f1719?hl=en
* US. 2 women ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
* More security for Tagore's treasures. Rabindra Bharati University is taking steps to upgrade security in the museum at Jorasanko Thakurbari.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/3016b3b88fb5ecb4?hl=en
* British Museum: OFF with his head! A statue of Roman emperor Hadrian showing the ruthless ruler's softer side has been exposed as a fake.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/f77c4947fbc9c7eb?hl=en
* Federal agents seized about 1,700 ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
* France: important court ruling about responsibillity Ebay for fakes sold on its website.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/1dcbb136020fe376?hl=en
* Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces. "Dealers in the United States exhibit stolen stuff on Web sites, exhibit stolen stuff in their galleries.
And nobody does anything"
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/7bcc61e66b277997?hl=en
* France. Sept pièces d'art sacré, dont la valeur totale est estimée ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
* Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces. "Dealers in the United States exhibit stolen stuff on Web sites, exhibit stolen stuff in their galleries.
And nobody does anything"
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/7bcc61e66b277997?hl=en
* France. Sept pièces d'art sacré, dont la valeur totale est estimée à 5 millions d'euros, ont été découvertes jeudi
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0331bc704553de66?hl=en
* Germany. Mehrjährige Haftstrafen im Prozess ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
James Cuno: "There is not a credible museum in this country that has an object in it that it knows to have been stolen from someplace else."
This statement attributed to Cuno must surely rank as one of the most blatant misrepresentations of our times. http://safecorner.savingantiquities.org/
Cuno and others have ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
* Mexico. De las 192 denuncias por robo de arte sacro presentadas entre los años 2000 y 2007, prácticamente todas están impunes hoy en día: 165 se archivaron pues no hay indicios, presuntos responsables o pruebas. Sólo 17 siguen en trámite.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/2536f7cfe89c0dbf?hl=en
* Delft Faculty of Architecture fire up-date (video)
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/cabcc2b8640af01b?hl=en
* Now Jordan ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
* Mexico. De las 192 denuncias por robo de arte sacro presentadas entre los años 2000 y 2007, prácticamente todas están impunes hoy en día: 165 se archivaron pues no hay indicios, presuntos responsables o pruebas. Sólo 17 siguen en trámite.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/2536f7cfe89c0dbf?hl=en
* Delft Faculty of Architecture fire up-date (video)
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/cabcc2b8640af01b?hl=en
* Now Jordan ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
* Israel-Palestine: There is no archaeological peace
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/11d205b3bb98417c?hl=en
* Insider theft. Malaysia. Three security guards detained over theft of stone artefacts belonging to National Museum http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0773bdd1b12c116a?hl=en
* Security defended after Picasso theft
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/e93bd43104488f08?hl=en
* Fire closes library in Albany
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/d83521eca5ff671c?hl=en
* La seguridad en el Museo de Riobamba se refuerza desde el 13 de octubre pasado, se ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
* US. Iowa floods. Culture heart of Cedar Rapids took a direct hit
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0ef386fa08a2c9c2?hl=en
* Wim - Pietje Bel - Pijbes: Elgin met de G van garçon
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/6b83c7b8463c47d3?hl=en
* Ancient burial ground looted; Thieves target Kincaid Mounds
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/27c29f9d80d4b81b?hl=en
* Israel-Palestine: There is no archaeological peace
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/11d205b3bb98417c?hl=en
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
* Museum theft. PALM SPRINGS - After a lengthy investigation and a conviction, several Indian artifacts valued at $140,000 to $160,000 were returned Friday to their rightful owners.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/242cc8ea4a1bd8ab?hl=en
* Museum theft Austria. Im Papiermachermuseum in Steyrermühl haben unbekannte Täter wertvolle Beute gemacht. Sie stahlen 40 Bleibarren, wie sie bei historischen Druckmaschinen ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
* Museum theft. PALM SPRINGS - After a lengthy investigation and a conviction, several Indian artifacts valued at $140,000 to $160,000 were returned Friday to their rightful owners.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/242cc8ea4a1bd8ab?hl=en
* Museum theft Austria. Im Papiermachermuseum in Steyrermühl haben unbekannte Täter wertvolle Beute gemacht. Sie stahlen 40 Bleibarren, wie sie bei historischen Druckmaschinen ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
* Museum theft. PALM SPRINGS - After a lengthy investigation and a conviction, several Indian artifacts valued at $140,000 to $160,000 were returned Friday to their rightful owners.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/242cc8ea4a1bd8ab?hl=en
* Museum theft Austria. Im Papiermachermuseum in Steyrermühl haben unbekannte Täter wertvolle Beute gemacht. Sie stahlen 40 Bleibarren, wie sie bei historischen Druckmaschinen ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Wo kann er sein? Ein Gespräch mit Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, der Witwe des Schriftstellers.
Von Manfred Papst
Ein milder, sonniger Nachmittag im obersten Geschoss eines Bürgerhauses im Stockholmer Stadtteil Södermalm. Hohe Räume, Stuckdecken, Stilmöbel. Bücher und Bilder, wohin man blickt. Hier wohnt Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss, die Witwe des deutschen Schriftstellers Peter Weiss (1916–1982), der ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
* US, Boston. Police seek stolen painting "Madonna and Child," that may be an original Reni was stolen from an Adin Street residence over an October weekend in 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/5057cdfbea59f190?hl=en
* Two Picassos stolen in Brazil
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0f35e9751210af58?hl=en
* Torah scroll theft in Missouri similar to Kenosha theft
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/5b70e89af14190e1?hl=en
* LONDON, June 13 -- http://www.trace.com, an ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
* Art thieves threaten Portugese cultural heritage
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/3ccf7cbe86720cd9?hl=en
* SWEDEN'S IMAGE TARNISHED BY FAILURE TO RETURN NAZI LOOTED PAINTING
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/f7a6480ad6f390c3?hl=en
* The Art Newspaper: German museum under fire for ceding control of exhibitions to dealers and collectors
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/a526159c020a6954?hl=en
* SAO PAULO, Brazil-Three armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown Sao ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
SAO PAULO (AFP) — A gang of armed robbers stole two Picasso engravings and two Brazilian paintings from a Sao Paulo museum in a bold daylight heist, officials said.
The four works grabbed Thursday from a branch of the Pinacoteca museum in the center of the city were insured for a ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
* Stolen antiquities found in U.S. returned to Iraq
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/048dd593d8b1eab6?hl=en
* 'Any book in Hemingway's library for $200'
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/ec4e63d125a54307?hl=en
* Institute of Art and Law seminars
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/64744bd4828079cc?hl=en
* Portugal. SOS Azulejo contre la disparition de pans entiers du patrimoine
portugais
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/858694af6a82842b?hl=en
* KHM: Seipel-Nachfolge wird am Mittwoch bekannt
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/6b674425c9e1b975?hl=en
* Pirates of the Channel Islands: A £200m treasure hunt. A private ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
* Sept mercenaires pour quatre tableaux commandésSept personnes mises en examenà Marseille, dont cinq écrouées pour les toiles volées http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/c5a1ac1f544ada2b?hl=en
* True or false: Indiana Jones is a plunderer.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/07750398cee16ba9?hl=en
* The Art Thief: A Novel by Noah Charney. ("the worst I've reviewed in 30 years...")
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0308cba22798ca59?hl=en
* Bulgarian Looter Caught http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/c857aeaeb3b4a6f8?hl=en
* Florida trio charged ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
In order to deny States the right to control excavations on their land and to prevent them from claiming ownership of artefacts found in their countries, James Cuno, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, in his new book, Who owns antiquity? Museums and the battle over our ancient heritage, ...
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
* Public art inspires even vandals, tramps and thieves
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/f8080013d1a6a55b?hl=en
* Insider theft: A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Yakama Nation Museum curator and her daughter to nine and six months, respectively, in prison for stealing artifacts from the museum.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/cacd9e763952dc3e?hl=en
* Mexico. Roban antiguo óleo de templo
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/132189332d9a8b7b?hl=en
* Association of Art Museum Directors ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Yakama Nation Museum curator and her daughter to nine and six months, respectively, in prison for stealing artifacts from the museum.
Marilyn Skahan-Malatare, 58, was given a few days to get her things in order before reporting to federal prison while her 30-year-old daughter, ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
* Book review by Tom Flynn: Fiat Cuno (Who Owns Antiquity
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/53b8c31328eef5f4?hl=en
* Beware of Directors Bearing Guidelines?
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/027fdb0472059b1e?hl=en
* Roger Bland to Lecture at Field Museum Regarding Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/db4d55b2fba36076?hl=en
* Les tableaux retrouvés en Moldavie inconnus au musée russe de l'Ermitage
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/50528a8fa9b66a21?hl=en
* Italian police recover 3,500 looted artifacts
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/72cc55bbdee4cda6?hl=en
* Eremitage-Museum verwundert über ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
* Huge comic book collection stolen from Bellevue home
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/0687c2efc16ea881?hl=en
* Bill Reid heist. Report: Museum guards fell for ruse
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/ab3d0692cb749b5f?hl=en
* Break-in and loss of Bill Reid works hasn't disqualified institution from
prestigious Canadian Heritage designation, department says...
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/1a8e5eb3fbed0a64?hl=en
* book review. Losing our marbles?
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/66a37380b7451378?hl=en
* Iraq issues cards of stolen artifacts and passes them to Interpol
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/f7de44ed099e5703?hl=en
* ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
First of all: one must wonder which role source countries played in establishing these guidelines. It seems none.
The new guidelines may mean a tightening of earlier guidelines but once again really create a lot of room for acquiring illicit antiquities for as long as there is 'proof' - there are ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Man damages piece worth $1.2 million reportedly because he didn’t like it
PITTSBURGH - A former guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art has been charged
with vandalizing a million-dollar painting he apparently didn’t like,
damaging it beyond repair.
The museum’s surveillance camera caught the vandalism on May 16, police said
Thursday.
Timur Serebrykov, 27, of ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
* New Zealand. A caregiver stole a valuable painting from his disabled
employer and sold it on the Internet using the pensioner's computer.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/49a315b981a20cd3?hl=en
* Exhibition at Cantor Center features masterpieces spared from Hurricane
Katrina
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/5e0345fcc8568302?hl=en
* Reward offered in theft of St. Charles sculpture
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/717df414294afc38?hl=en
* U.K. Church stunned as thieves take Renaissance painting messages
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/50906c77fdecccdd?hl=en
* French police ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
MARSEILLE, France — French police recovered four paintings, including a Monet landscape, that were stolen by masked gunmen in August from a museum on the French Riviera, judicial officials said.
The paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice were discovered Wednesday in a utility vehicle parked in the port ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
* Police are investigating the theft of two sets of great white shark jaws from a shark museum that is part of a business on South Australia's west coast.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/d7ea0a237141bc15?hl=en
* Switzerland. Meggen (LU): 50 statue in bronzo rubate da atelier di Rolf Brem
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/85f1bafcd1ebb371?hl=en
* RCMP theory of local connection to Bill Reid ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
* The contents of the library at Delft University's architechture faculty have survived the fire which ripped through the building on May 13 - http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/3cc80a867d072858?hl=en
* Insider theft: Bücherdiebstahl in Uni-Bibliothek - Ex-Hausmeister vor Gericht
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/a82f5276c529a7ae?hl=en
* Eine vor knapp sechs Monaten in Berlin-Charlottenburg verschwundene wertvolle italienische Geige aus dem 18. Jahrhundert ist ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
* Museum theft. New Zealand. Rail volunteers dismayed at theft
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/ddacd573b29a778d?hl=en
* Salt Lake City: Man who was robbed finds stolen items in antique shops
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/95ec28a0e649a25e?hl=en
* Devastating fire at Universal studios destroys Back To The Future set and more
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/11b898e2ebc5d543?hl=en
* DELFT - Binnen het Legermuseum in Delft loopt een diepgravend onderzoek naar mogelijke malversaties ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
By Percy Flarge,
Artnose Cultural Heritage correspondent
full text with images: http://www.artnose.org/elgin.htm
THE ELGIN MARBLES were made by an English sculptor and are therefore definitively English and should stay in Britain, according to new research by the renowned Oxford archaeologist Dr Rex Tooms.
Dr Tooms's research has uncovered fresh evidence that Pheidias, the Greek ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
* HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP. 100-lbs. sculpture stolen from yard. Fear bronze artwork will be scrapped.
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/e4967388e94ee881?hl=en
* Lista Roja para proteger un patrimonio excepcional, el de Perú
http://groups.google.com/group/museum-security-network/browse_thread/thread/444721d09294b479?hl=en
* Nederlandse invoering cultuurgoed-verdrag in zicht. Veel te late ratificatie van Unesco 1970 markeert schaamte om Nederlandse - maar al te vaak gidsland - laksheid. Enthousiasme Tweede ...
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