Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
By John Varoli | From News | Posted: 25.11.08
ST PETERSBURG. The guns may be silent and an uneasy truce in place, but
Russia and Georgia are continuing the public relations war, most
recently levelling accusation and counter-accusation of destroying
historical and cultural sites during their week-long conflict in August.
At the end of September ...
Posted in Mailing list reports | Comments Off
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Exclusive: Work that had been removed from display in 2005 was back on
market
By Martin Bailey | From Art Market | Posted: 27.11.08
LONDON. Sotheby’s has withdrawn an important “13th century” belt buckle from
its 2 December old master sculpture and works of art sale after questions
were raised by The Art Newspaper. The ...
Posted in Auction Houses and stolen objects | Comments Off
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
The Saint Louis Art Museum Ka-Nefer-Nefer Egyptian Mask Saga Continues
Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 04:58:43 PM
A recent Associated Press article reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now looking into the provenance of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian relic acquired in the late 1990s by the Saint ...
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers, Struggle against illicit trade in cultural heritage | Comments Off
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Ladrones exquisitos
Cultura No es fácil detener el robo de tesoros artísticos. En Bogotá se reunieron expertos en la prevención del tráfico ilícito de bienes culturales. Una historia de policías y ladrones de finos gustos.
Los libros se perdían como por arte de magia y no había responsables. Y no se trataba ...
Posted in Mailing list reports | Comments Off
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Images:
http://snipurl.com/6oxox [www_dailymail_co_uk]
By Charlotte Gill
Last updated at 3:17 AM on 21st November 2008
Facing jail: Iranian scholar Farhad Hakimzadeh was an expert on the books he was stealing from
A wealthy historian is facing jail after stealing hundreds of pages from priceless ancient books for his personal collection.
Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, expertly cut ...
Posted in library theft | Comments Off
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:
Password:
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers | Comments Off
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Steven Litt
Plain Dealer Art Critic
The Cleveland Museum of Art agreed Wednesday to return 13 antiquities and a late Gothic processional cross to Italy after authorities there proved the works were looted, stolen or handled by traffickers.
The museum and the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities announced the ...
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers | Comments Off
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Posted by dsims November 23, 2008 06:30AM
RELATED STORIES (links and images:
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/11/analysis_museums_often_pay_the.html)
• Cleveland Museum of Art strikes deal with Italy to return 14 ancient artworks
• Feb. 17: God of mystery: Gaps in our Apollo's history make it a focus of debate over global antiquities trade
• Feb. 14, 2007: Louvre ...
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers | Comments Off
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
The Associated Press. November 19, 2008.
JERUSALEM: Timepieces from a priceless collection stolen from a Jerusalem museum were discovered in French bank vaults, police said Wednesday, more than two decades after the heist.
The 43 watches and clocks will return to Israel, where they will join dozens of others from the collection ...
Posted in Museum thefts | Comments Off
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:
Password:
Posted in insider theft | Comments Off
Friday, November 21st, 2008
• British Library to sue after 150 books are vandalised
• Wealthy scholar pleads guilty and may face prison
Sandra Laville, crime correspondent The Guardian, Friday 21 November 2008
Farhad Hakimzadeh removed a map by Hans Holbein the Younger from Simon Grynaeus’s 16th century work Novus Orbis. Photograph: David Levene
To the untrained eye ...
Posted in Mailing list reports | Comments Off
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
FORGERY A WORK OF ART
By DAREH GREGORIAN
November 15, 2008 --
An art collector has been given the green light to sue Christie's auction house for allowing a purported Basquiat painting it allegedly knew was a fake to be sold anyway.
Christie's auctioned off the untitled work in 1990 for $242,000, crediting it ...
Posted in Auction Houses and stolen objects, forgery | Comments Off
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
A former Salt Lake City art gallery employee who stole about $15,000 worth of high-end paintings was sentenced to prison Friday.
Robert Paul Tucker, 30, had pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to one count each of second-degree felony theft and third-degree felony burglary.
Witnesses identified Tucker as being around the Repartee ...
Posted in insider theft | Comments Off
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
EBAY MEDAL THIEF JAILED
By Richard Smith 11/11/2008
A volunteer at an army museum has been jailed for a year for stealing £33,000 worth of medals and selling them on eBay.
Michael Bray, 4 9, replaced the war heroes' decorations in their display cabinets with fakes.
They had been donated to the Royal Signals ...
Posted in insider theft, Museum thefts | Comments Off
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
10.11.2008
Un jeune homme d’origine serbe a comparu en audience préliminaire, cet après-midi, devant la Cour d’Assises de Neuchâtel. Il est l’un des trois auteurs du vol d’une centaine de montres de collection au Musée Girard-Perregaux, à La Chaux-de-Fonds, en juillet 2007.
C’est menottes aux poignets, après 16 mois de prison préventive, ...
Posted in Museum thefts | Comments Off
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Harare, November 10th, 2008:
The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) recently concluded installation of surveillance and security equipment at the Great Zimbabwe Museum to curb theft of valuable historical artifacts and cultural resources at Great Zimbabwe in Masvingo province.
The U.S. Embassy provided the funding for the purchase of equipment ...
Posted in Mailing list reports | Comments Off
Monday, November 10th, 2008
chicagotribune.com
A 4,000-year-old artifact turns up at O'Hare. Stolen property or museum piece?
By Tom Hundley
November 9, 2008
On April 11, 2003, three days after American tanks rumbled into Baghdad and the day after looters swarmed the Iraq National Museum
like a plague of locusts, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon press corps enjoyed a ...
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers | Comments Off
Monday, November 10th, 2008
ctvbc.ca
Private Leslie Johnson, known on the battle field as "Dutch,'' fought in the battle in Vimy Ridge, a fight that is widely regarded as a defining moment in Canadian history. It was fought in April 1917.
When it was over, he made it home, with shrapnel still lodged in his neck, ...
Posted in Mailing list reports | Comments Off
Monday, November 10th, 2008
November 10th, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien
Leave a comment | Trackback
Jules Crittenden reports that federal agents are investigating whether CBS correspondent Lara Logan smuggled mementoes to the U.S.
Agents found out that Logan had items in her possession which belong back in Iraq, after a video profile on the beautiful ...
Posted in looting and illegal art traffickers | Comments Off
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
As readers may know, many Africans are very suspicious of collaboration with museums and institutions that have shown by their history and practice that they do not care much for the interest and feelings of Nigerians and Africans generally. In the article below by Tajudeen Sowole, a Nigerian art critic ...
Posted in Dr. Kwame Opoku writings about looted cultural objects | Comments Off
