Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Big clean up after flood hits National Library of ScotlandLibrary staff are today inspecting some of the world's rarest books after a flood hit Scotland's national collection.
A burst sprinkler valve on the top level of the National Library of Scotland saw water cascading down the building's 12 floors.
Around 700 books ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
China wrath over YSL sale comes as restitution claims increase
Saturday, 28 February 2009
by Fabienne Faur*
China's wrath over this week's sale of two ancient Chinese bronzes comes as more and more nations demand the return of heritage works -- from Iraqi antiquities to the Elgin Marbles -- with some snatched thousands ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
By Rick Koster
Published on 2/28/2009 in Home »Features »Features Main Photo:
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=108c7d42-6ffb-402d-95ad-b6cd69b9e232
Are they in your neighbor's garage? Inside the Green Monster at Fenway? Stashed in an IRA fortress as a piece in a long-term political chess game?
Well, dammit, they're somewhere.
In March 1990, 12 works of art, including paintings by Degas, Rembrandt ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Art hit squad takes on tomb raiders after relics looted.
Public opinion turning against ‘tombaroli’.
>From Philip Willan in Rome.
Some 16 people have been reported to magistrates in Ancona for prosecution: three alleged tomb raiders and 13 of their alleged clients. Lieutenant Salvatore Strocchia, of the local carabinieri paramilitary police, said the ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Lord Myners, the minister who signed off Sir Fred Goodwin's £16m pension, was embroiled in another controversy over a multi-million pound payment during his time as chairman of the Tate Gallery, it has emerged.
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 9:03PM GMT 27 Feb 2009
Following the theft of two Turner masterpieces ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Fanjul Family Hunts Art Thieves
By Deirdra Funcheon in Crime, Palm Beach, The Arts
Thursday, Feb. 26 2009 @ 2:15PM
According to the powerful Fanjul family, the State Department has launched an investigation into Bruno Scaioli, an Italian-Argentinian art dealer who is suspected of trafficking artwork the Fanjuls say is rightfully theirs.
Not long ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Art heist probe comes to city
By Mark LaFlamme , Staff Writer
Thursday, February 26, 2009
LEWISTON - This city for a time was the focus of an investigation into one of the most notorious art heists in history, officials said Wednesday.
The FBI confirmed that its agents have searched a Lewiston home looking ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Published: February 26, 2009
BEIJING— Just hours after the sale of two Qing Dynasty bronze animal heads at Christie's auction of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in Paris, China announced that it would tighten oversight of the activities of the auction house. The Chinese government, as well ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Tania Branigan guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 February 2009 14.43 GMT
Jackie Chan has criticised the sale of bronze rat and rabbit sculptures. Photograph: Mast Irham/EPA±
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/26/chan-china-looted-relics
China's campaign for the return of two Qing dynasty bronzes plundered during the Opium wars received star backing today when actor Jackie Chan leapt into the fray.
The ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Chinese relics sell for 15.7 mln euros each at YSL auction
26 minutes ago
PARIS (AFP) — Two looted Chinese bronzes sold for 15.7 million euros (20.3 million dollars) each to anonymous telephone bidders at the Yves Saint Laurent art sale on Wednesday, despite protests from Beijing.
China had demanded the return of ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
So who did loot those French-Italian animal heads?
Posted By: Richard Spencer at Feb 25, 2009 at 09:04:13 [General]
Posted in: Foreign Correspondents
Tags:Pierre Berge, Summer Palace, Yves St Laurent Collection
Not surprisingly, the Chinese government and people have been unable to persuade the French or Christie's to stop the sale of two bronze ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Bruch mit West-Stahl
Es ist eine Schmach für Kriminalisten: Von den Bildern, die vor fast 30 Jahren auf Schloss Friedenstein gestohlen wurden, fehlt jede Spur. Im Dezember verjährt die Tat (TA vom 7. Februar). Erstmals spricht nun ein Major der Volkspolizei über die Ermittlungen, über die in der DDR der Mantel ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Lord of the manor 'tried to sell fake Lowry for £330,000 at meeting in Ritz hotel'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:49 AM on 25th February 2009
Lord Maurice Taylor claims he told 'little white lies' so it would sound better
A lord of the manor tricked an art dealer into buying ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
By Laura Gonzalez de Artaza
XOCHICALCO, MEXICO – The Leoff-Vinot collection, made up of more than 8,100 pre-Columbian pieces bought on the black market, was presented here Tuesday by its new owner, Mexico's National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH.
Considered to be the most important antiquities collection in Mexico in private ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Treasure hunt starts to pay off
* Martin Chulov and Maev Kennedy
* The Guardian, Tuesday 24 February 2009
* Article history
Persistent efforts to recover thousands of looted artefacts and works of art have started to bear fruit with the return of around 5,500 pieces. The recovery effort has spanned six continents, and ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
23 Feb 2009 11:22 am
Since Sir Norman Rosenthal, a British curator and son of German Jews, called for a statute of limitations on Holocaust art claims -- insisting "history is history and that you can't turn the clock back, or make things good again through art" -- there's been an ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Redacción / EP
La Unidad de Policía adscrita a la Junta de Andalucía ha abierto una investigación para esclarecer el robo de la cruz del "Santo Domingo penitente", obra del escultor Juan Martínez Montañés que se encontraba expuesta en la sala X del Museo de Bellas Artes de la capital hispalense.
En ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Museum robbed in Latvia
Feb 23, 2009
TBT staff
RIGA- A museum in Vainode, Latvia has been robbed of several valuable artifacts.
The museum's head Alda Pruse told BNS that the thief took several items donated by former victims of the Stalin regime, a firefighter's helmet, old photo cameras, and a pair of binoculars ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Sun Feb 22, 2009
By Lefteris Papadimas and Daniel Flynn
ATHENS (Reuters) - A corroded mechanism recovered by sponge divers from a sunken wreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1902 changed the study of the ancient world forever.
The Antikythera Mechanism, a system of bronze gears from the 2nd century BC, ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
In looking up the background surrounding the proposed auction by Christie’s, I came across some materials which I found very interesting and would like to share with readers. One of them was the statement attributed to Charles Gordon, British soldier, the other by the French writer, Victor Hugo. There ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
By SHARON COHEN
AP National Writer
12:55 PM CST, February 21, 2009
CHICAGO
The professor opens a cardboard box and gingerly picks up a few hunks of dried clay -- dust-baked relics that offer a glimpse into the long-lost world of the Persian empire that spanned a continent 2,500 years ago.
Matt Stolper has spent ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Glass heists puzzling to art world
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer
Published Friday, February 20, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG — Thieves have stolen five pieces of glass art from two downtown galleries over the last year, and art lovers agree on one thing: The thefts don't make sense.
The stolen artworks are worth only ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Furnace woes force evacuation of museum
Reformer Staff
Saturday, February 21
BRATTLEBORO -- Nobody was hurt and no artwork was damaged, but the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center had a scare Friday morning when its furnace began blowing carbon monoxide and other fumes into the furnace room rather than out the chimney.
The Brattleboro ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
February 21, 2009
Brian Morelli
Iowa City Press-Citizen
The University of Iowa's art collection can't catch a break, particularly from water.
Last year, floodwater devastated UI's art campus and forced the relocations of much of the art campus and art collection. Early Thursday morning, a frozen sprinkler head burst, soaking a collection of 2,400 ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Oops, embarrassing mistake by publicity-eager Zahi Hawass: the bronze statue of what he described as an ancient Mesopotamian goddess and returned to Iraq appears to be a fake.
More information soon.
Read original report about the 'return' of this bronze statue at:
http://snipurl.com/cd1sf
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Art dealer sentenced for selling counterfeits
By Todd Ruger
Published: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 6:25 a.m.
SARASOTA COUNTY - A former art dealer was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling bogus paintings to two customers, including an elderly collector who has since ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
When I listened to the recent lecture by Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum on the 250th anniversary of the museum, I was, at least at the beginning, very relieved. (1) I thought, finally we have the director of the museum, an avid apostle of the “universal museum”, who was recently ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
The paleontologist who discovered Malta’s famed mummy dinosaur pleaded innocent Thursday to federal charges of stealing fossils from Bureau of Land Management land.
Nathan Murphy faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison with another three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for the federal charges of theft ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Sketching in the details of the Gardner heist
Ulrich Boser's retelling of the greatest art theft in modern times doesn't provide a solution but captures the dedication required to build up an art collection - and to steal it
Kriston Capps guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 February 2009
A detail from Storm on the Sea ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
17.02.2009 17:15:03 -
Bremen (AP) Als erstes Bundesland will die Einbruchshochburg Bremen Diebe und deren Beute mit dem Einsatz künstlicher DNA aufspüren. Nach dem Vorbild Großbritanniens und der Niederlande sollen die Bremer dazu ihre Wertsachen mit dem unsichtbaren Stoff markieren, wie die Polizei am Dienstag bei der Vorstellung des Projektes mitteilte. ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
China Seeks to Stop Paris Sale of Bronzes
By DAVID BARBOZA
SHANGHAI — China is stepping up the pressure on Christie’s auction house to withdraw two bronzes from its sale of Yves Saint Laurent’s vast collection next week in Paris, saying they were looted from the imperial Summer Palace near Beijing nearly ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Bronze Age axes sold on ebay
8:50am Monday 16th February 2009
BRONZE Age axes found in Buckinghamshire using illegal metal detection were sold on internet auction site ebay, English Heritage warned today.
It said the practice, known as “nighthawking” was putting the country’s heritage at risk.
The axes were sold to a collector in ...
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
• Archaeological study shows extent of looting
• Few 'nighthawks' charged and penalties are paltry
Maev Kennedy and Sam Jones The Guardian, Monday 16 February 2009
Not all treasure thieves tiptoe through the shells of Iraqi museums or churn up the deserts of Peru in their hunt for valuable antiquities. Nearer to home ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
From: Nicole Hayes <nicole [at] ica-artconservation__org>
Subject: Conference on fire suppression and mitigation
"Fire! Recent Trends in Suppression and Mitigation"
Ohio Museums Association 2009 Conference
Sheraton Suites Akron/Cuyahoga Falls
Akron, OH
April 6, 2009
9-11:30am
Presented by the Northeast Ohio Alliance for Response
<URL:http://www.heritagepreservation.org/AfR/Ohio/index.html> with
generous support from the Fidelity Foundation, Mr. Rapid/Water Out
of Canton, and the Ohio Preservation Council.
What ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
By Demetra Molyva
A precious stolen icon is now safely back with the church after a key mediation role played by The Cyprus Weekly.
The late 18th century icon was handed over to the representative of the Church of Cyprus in Brussels by Dutch art dealer Michel van Rijn this week.
Van Rijn ...
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