Archive for October, 2008
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
The deputy mayor of Safed, Reuven Sadeh, was indicted yesterday for stealing 23 valuable works of art from the city.
Sadeh, 50, is currently running for reelection to the city council in next month's municipal elections.
According to the indictment, which was filed in the Nazareth District Court, the stolen artwork was ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
publié le 27 octobre 2008
Dans le cadre de la présidence française du Conseil de l'Union européenne, le ministère de la Culture a organisé au musée d'Orsay, le 23 octobre, une réunion des responsables des musées des vingt-sept Etats membres. Le point clé à l'ordre du jour portait sur la sécurité ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
A secret meeting between TV3 star John Campbell and one of the men charged over the theft of historic medals from the Army Museum at Waiouru was caught by a hotel security camera and helped police make arrests.
The controversial Campbell Live interview was screened in February, just months after two ...
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
By Michael Sontheimer
Hundreds of thousands of book stolen by the Nazis are still in German libraries. A few librarians are acting like detectives, searching for the books and hoping to return them to the former owners or their families. However, many libraries have shown little interest in the troubling legacy ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
By ANDREW DALTON
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire burned 100 acres of brush and grass near the world-famous Getty art museum before it was doused early Thursday without causing any damage or injuries, fire officials said.
Nearby Interstate 405 was closed for about four hours but reopened at 6 a.m., as ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
PAINTING FOUND: Search on for local owner of formerly long lost art
By Eric Tsetsi/Staff Writer
Winchester, MA -
About 37 years after it was first reported stolen, a painting belonging to a Winchester resident has been re-discovered.
According to the Art Loss Register, an international non-profit organization that tries to deter art theft ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
HBJ Gateley Wareing duo caught up in art heist trial
Oct 22 2008 By Tom Scotney
It was one of the most audacious capers of recent times. Two men walked into Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland, overpowered a security guard and grabbed one of the world’s most valuable paintings from the wall.
As sirens sounded ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Recuperan el busto de José Pérez Guerra que fue sustraído de una plaza
Image: http://snipurl.com/4nh3c [www_huelvainformacion_es]
La Guardia Civil ha detenido a un joven de 18 años, vecino de Aljaraque, como presunto autor del robo
Europa Press/ Huelva | Actualizado 22.10.2008 - 13:53
Agentes del Equipo de Policía Judicial de la Guardia Civil ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Spenden für das Denkmal von Kleist
Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 02:42 - Von Jeanette Bederke
So viel Aufmerksamkeit hatte Heinrich von Kleist in seiner Geburtsstadt schon lange nicht mehr: Bisher unbekannte Buntmetalldiebe haben vom Denkmal des berühmtesten Frankfurters in der vergangenen Woche drei wertvolle Bronzereliefs gestohlen, um die Metalltafeln vermutlich bei ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
It looks as if Britain is finally coming to the conclusion that stolen/looted cultural objects should be returned to their rightful owners. According to a report in the Telegraph, new legislation is on the way to allow the British Museum and other national museums to return artworks that were stolen/looted ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Who knows how great his inspiration might have been on Nigerian music had he stayed in Benin rather than be hidden in the British Museum?
The lack of reaction from Western holders of Benin artefacts to the several calls
by Nigerians for restitution is causing anger in many circles.
The report below deals ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
We may not all agree with Zahi Hawass in his style and manner of approach to the issue of restitution of stolen or looted artefacts but there is no denying that the famous Egyptologist, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, has been extremely effective in his tasks ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Peter Tompa: Brent R. Benjamin of Saint Louis Art Museum Named to CPAC Museum Seat
The White House has announced that Brent R. Benjamin of the Saint Louis Art Museum has been named to a seat on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee to represent the interests of the museum community. Mr. ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Hardly a day passes by without some call for the return of the stolen cultural objects of Benin. In the whole of Africa people are incensed when they hear about the unjustified invasion of Benin by the British in 1897 and above all, the looting and burning of Benin City. ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
CPAC: New Appointment
Original blog with all links:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2008/09/cpac-new-appointment.html
While most of us have been following the "credit crunch" and yesterday's surprise vote in Washington (what the BBC has termed a "bail-out failure"), the White House announced a new member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC): Brent R. Benjamin, Director ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
More options Oct 13, 4:36 pm
Brent Benjamin Appointed to CPAC
(cross-posted with relevant links at
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/2008/10/brent-benjamin-appointed-to-cpac.html)
Dr. Derek Fincham
The White House announced back in September that President Bush will
nominate Brent R. Benjamin to serve on the Cultural Property Advisory
Committee for three years. David Gill commented on the appointment, as
did Wayne Sayles. Earlier in ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
VIENNA (AFP) — Thieves broke into a church in a small town in central Austria and stole scores of tin organ pipes, probably for their value as scrap metal, its pastor reported Monday.
They dismantled and removed 122 tin pipes from the instrument, leaving only those in wood and tinplate, according ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
By our art-crunch correspondents
Hanky-Panky Paulson and Banksy Bernanky
Damien Hirst, the wealthiest artist the world has ever known and a colossus of corporate finance, faces nationalization say City analysts.
As the financial meltdown edged ever closer to the core of the nuclear reactor that is the international banking system, there were mounting ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
Randy Boswell Canwest News Service
Sunday, October 12, 2008
A rare print of a 396-year-old map of Canada created by French explorer Samuel de Champlain - and billed by Sotheby's as "perhaps the most important single map" in Canadian history - is to be auctioned next month in Britain for up to ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Benjamin Brent knows that the Egyptian mask in the SLAM is a stolen mask and refuses to return it. Who sold this mask to the SLAM: dubious art dealer Ali Aboutaam (presently convicted in Egypt; there is an international warrent for his arrest!)
It cannot be true that BRENT BENJAMINwill ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
By ANDREA VanVALKENBURG
Staff Writer
October 09, 2008 04:00 am
— PLATTSBURGH -- Matthew Boire trembled as he apologized for stealing and selling a Civil War uniform, a theft that has landed him behind bars for 90 days.
The 26-year-old Plattsburgh man was facing a possible stint in prison when he returned to Clinton ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Italy tries to block sale of Bonhams antiquities linked to disgraced dealer
Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent
The London auctioneers Bonhams are under pressure to withdraw several of the prized pieces from its forthcoming antiquities sale after a senior Italian politician raised questions over their provenance.
Francesco Rutelli, the former Italian Minister for Culture ...
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
POSTED: 7:28 pm EDT October 6, 2008
UPDATED: 12:03 am EDT October 7, 2008
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- After investigating a robbery at a St. Augustine art gallery, police said they suspect the heist was an inside job.
Investigators were called to the Parkmara Galleries on St. George Street last Tuesday after an ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
André Cédilot
La Presse
Surnommé «le Columbo de l'art», le sergent Alain Lacoursière est de retour à la police de Montréal. Depuis trois ans, il était «prêté» à la Sûreté du Québec, où il a participé à la création d'Art Alerte, un site internet unique au monde destiné à combattre la criminalité ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
KABUL (AFP) — Antiques dating back 1,300 years have been stolen from a museum in western Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, blaming a "powerful gang" for the theft after a suspect was found dead.
The national museum at Herat, the second largest city in Afghanistan, was raided last week, deputy culture minister ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
By Jill Bryce
Artifact thief to serve prison time
ALBANY — A former state archivist and Civil War expert who stole hundreds of historical documents and artifacts belonging to the New York State Library and sold some of them over the Internet for personal profit was sentenced on Thursday to two to ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
The following are some of the essential points about the Benin bronzes that the reader must know and always bear in mind when reading about the looted cultural artefacts now in European and American museums.
1. Thousands of beautiful and fine Benin art objects were stolen by the British in 1897 ...
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
By Paul Leighton and Paul Tennant
Staff writerS
BEVERLY — An observant Groveland police officer and a conscientious plant operations manager at Beverly Hospital helped bring about Tuesday's arrest of Paul G. Galzerano on charges of receiving stolen property, investigators said.
Galzerano, 56, of Groveland pleaded not guilty in Haverhill District Court yesterday ...
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Police need your help to track down a man who allegedly stole a civil war uniform and sword at the Museum of Wayne County. Police say the theft was similar to an art theft at a museum in Mount Morris last week.
A Wayne County Sheriff Department Investigator returned to the ...
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