Archive for February, 2009
Friday, February 13th, 2009
Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Mojokerto
The damage to hundreds of archaeological sites at Trowulan, the former center of the Majapahit Kingdom, has raised concern among many organizations and individuals. One of these is Anam Anis, a lawyer who founded a culture and art appreciation group called Majapahit Gotrah Wilwatikta.
The name ...
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Experts express concern at the lack of action by Moroccan authorities
By Lucian Harris | From Conservation | Posted: 11.2.09
LONDON. Last August, thieves broke into the 14th-century Sbaiyin madrassa in the Moroccan city of Fez, stealing a decorated marble fountain plaque and carved wooden beams. The removal of the beams, which ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The Iraqi National Museum, home to priceless artifacts that were plundered in the chaos after the United States-led invasion in 2003, will reopen this month, an Iraqi official said Wednesday, Reuters reported. The long-awaited reopening will mark a milestone in the government’s efforts to retrieve and preserve objects and archaeological ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Begleitet vom Beifall der Medien feierte kürzlich das neue 7 Sterne Hotel Atlantis auf dem Inselkomplex "The Palm Jumeirah" in Dubai seine spektakuläre Eröffnung.
Hinter den Kulissen ist die erprobte und vielseitige L-Serie von TRAKA im Einsatz und sorgt für die effektive Sicherung und Verwaltung sämtlicher Zugangs- ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog: Cuno Should Distinguish Between People and Nations
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<http://culturalpropertylaw.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/cuno-should-disti...> Cuno Should Distinguish Between People and Nations
Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:13 PM PST
Museum director James Cuno, the author of Who Owns Antiquity?, has posted to the Princeton University Press ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
“Encyclopedic museums, like the British Museum or the Metropolitan Museum or the Art Institute of Chicago, serve as a force for understanding, tolerance, and the dissolution of ignorance and superstition about the world”
James Cuno
The recent article by James-Cuno "Where-do-the-great-treasures-of-ancient-art-belong?" clearly demonstrates his unwillingness to take into account valid criticisms of ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Der Gothaer Kunstraub.
06.02.2009 Von Karsten JAUCH.
Vor fast drei Jahrzehnten erlebte Thüringen den wohl spektakulärsten Kunstraub seiner Geschichte: Aus dem Gothaer Schlossmuseum wurden in der Nacht fünf kostbare Werke alter Meister gestohlen. Sie sind bis heute nicht wieder aufgetaucht. In diesem Jahr droht die Verjährung.
THÜRINGEN. Die Meldung in der ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Cypriot Bible Could Be From Jesus' Time
By Sarah Ktisti and Simon Bahceli
Reuters
Photographs:
http://news.aol.com/article/syriac-bible-2000-years-old-cyprus/332408?icid=200100397x1218557604x1201217355
NICOSIA, CYPRUS (Feb. 6) - Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus.
The manuscript was found in a police raid on ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Insurance expert sounds alert over consignment premiums
06 February 2009
A LEADING fine art insurer has alerted UK auctioneers that they may be breaking the law in the way they provide insurance cover for items consigned for auction.
And John Wakefield, director of fine art insurers Connoisseur Underwriting, has also called on auction ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Publié le jeudi 05 février 2009 à 16h39 - Bruno Renoul.
Six individus soupçonnés d'avoir organisé le pillage d'un château des Ardennes et le recel des objets volés ont été arrêtés dans la nuit de lundi à mardi à Condé-sur-l'Escaut et Onnaing par la Sûreté du Nord et de la Sûreté ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Nico Hines
A fire was burning inside the 17th Century College of Arms in Central London this afternoon, leaving thousands of historic documents at risk.
The college building, which was constructed in the 1670s, houses the official records of the coats of arms of British and Commonwealth families dating back to 1530.
Eight ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Wednesday, February 04, 2009.
(February 5 addition: A well-known book dealer who stole rare books worth more than £230,000 from the private library of the Rothschild family has been jailed for 28 months.)
A bookseller from Bristol has pleaded guilty to stealing rare books worth more than £230,000 from one of ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Antique gun stolen from museum
By CHRIS KNAUSS Staff Writer
Published: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 7:23 AM CST
ST. MICHAELS An antique shotgun was stolen from the St. Michaels Museum at St. Mary's Square on Tuesday evening, Jan. 20.
The gun is 65 inches long and non-functional a single-barreled, muzzleloader made between 1830 and ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
EINIGUNG IN NEW YORK
Einigung kurz vor Prozessbeginn: Zwei Picasso-Bilder, um die es einen Rechtsstreit zwischen den Erben eines jüdischen Bankiers aus Berlin und New Yorker Museen gab, bleiben in den USA. Der Richter kritisierte, dass die Öffentlichkeit nun nicht die wahre Geschichte der Bilder erfahren werde.
New York - Zwei wertvolle ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Sandra Laville, crime correspondent
Known as the "Tome Raider", he also goes by the aliases Mr Santoro or David Fletcher. A notorious gentleman thief in the rarefied world of antiquarian books, he has slipped through the hands of the police, is wanted and at large.
Libraries across the world, archive collections, auctioneers ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Tortoises stolen, 3rd theft
By Esther Tan
TEN tortoises have been stolen from the Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum at the Chinese Garden.
It is the third time in two years this has happened.
Security camera footage showed two men making off with the reptiles at around 9.30pm on Saturday, said museum owner Connie ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
I’ll stay silent over Shakespeare book, says Raymond Scott
Feb 1 2009 by Roger Domeneghetti, Sunday Sun
FLAMBOYANT Raymond Scott is considering the unthinkable when he appears in court over the alleged theft of a rare Shakespeare book . . . by keeping his mouth shut.
Mr Scott was last week seen addressing ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
| LE MONDE | 30.01.09 | Harry Bellet |
Mais où ai-je donc fourré mon tableau du Dominiquin ?", se demandait, il y a peu, le directeur du Musée du Louvre. Son prédécesseur lointain l'avait déposé au Musée de Toul en 1895 mais, depuis 1970, il était introuvable. La commission du ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Police investigate missing art dealer
Published: Feb. 1, 2009 at 1:39 AM
SYDNEY, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- An Australian art dealer has disappeared, leaving clients wondering where their money and artworks are.
Police are trying to determine if Ron Coles was involved in art forgery, the Melbourne Sun-Herald reported. The newspaper cited sources ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Sammeln von Münzen fördert Bildung und Kultur
Gemeinsame Erklärung von Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst (DGMk) e. V., Deutsche Numismatische Gesellschaft (DNG) e. V., Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte (GIG) e.V., Numismatische Kommission der Länder der Bundesrepublik e.V., Verband der Deutschen Münzenhändler (VDDM) e.V.
Das Sammeln von Münzen blickt auf eine lange Geschichte zurück. ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Thieves stole a lump of fossilised dinosaur dung from the Natural History Museum in London, it has been revealed.
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent.
Last Updated: 2:39PM GMT 31 Jan 2009.
When staff at the Natural History Museum noticed that one of their exhibits had disappeared, it seemed reminiscent of the 1970s comedy ...
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