Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Egypt Archaeologist Has a Vigilant Eye for Stolen Antiquities
Phil Bolton
03.27.09
Egypt’s most senior Egyptologist visited the “King Tut” exhibit at the Atlanta Civic Center March 26, bursting with pride in both his country’s ancient past and his profession, while continuing to pick a fight with the St. Louis Art Museum for ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
UNESCO/M. Ravassard On 13 March 2009 the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, expressed his great pleasure on receiving the instrument of ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict from Mr Stephen Engelken, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the United ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
By JAMES BARRON
A once-prominent art dealer was arrested on Thursday on an indictment charging that he stole $88 million from investors, collectors and artists who had consigned paintings and sculpture to his Upper East Side gallery, the authorities said.
The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, said the dealer, Lawrence B. ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Robbers have broken into the museum dedicated to the late Communist Party leader Harilaos Florakis and stolen valuable personal items, books and letters, it was revealed yesterday. The museum is housed in Florakis’s parental home in the village of Paliozoglopi, near Karditsa, central Greece and the theft was noticed yesterday ...
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
These guidelines identify important topics that collection administrators should address in developing adequate security measures and a strategy for responding to thefts. While directed primarily toward special collections in the U.S., many topics are also applicable to general collections and to special collections in other countries. “Special Collections” here refers ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Two arrested in east Bohemian art heist
Police recover rare paintings among 4 million Kč loot
Posted: March 19, 2009
By Wency Leung, Staff Writer
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In a rare coup against art crime, police in Hradec Králové have arrested two men in connection with a Nov. 10 museum heist, and recovered two paintings by ...
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Univ. of Iowa's paintings return to Iowa
Pam Cunningham. Reporter.
March 19, 2009. DAVENPORT, Iowa.
The University of Iowa faces years of work and money to recover from the historic flooding last spring. And as they resettle their art collection will be kept in the Quad Cities.
The contract was signed Thursday and some ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Man jailed over £1.7m Lowry raid
Published: 2009/03/17
A man convicted of an "audacious and well-planned" raid to steal LS Lowry artworks valued at £1.7m has been given an indefinite jail sentence.
Casey Miller, 23, of Denton, Greater Manchester, was found guilty of robbery after posing as a postman to get into ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
REFUSAL OF INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE: COMMENTS ON AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CUNO
The latest statements by the Director of the Art Institute of Chicago in an interview entitled “Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums” cannot be simply ignored or dismissed (1). After all, James Cuno heads one of the leading museums ...
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
British Library mislays 9,000 books
• Text worth £20,000 among missing volumes
• Some have not been seen for more than 50 years
* Anil Dawar and Maev Kennedy
* The Guardian, Tuesday 17 March 2009
* Article history
An illustration from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
An 1876 illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland is ...
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Museums lose nearly 200 artifacts
Leading museums have lost nearly 200 items in recent years worth more than half a million pounds, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
By Roya Nikkhah, Arts Correspondent
Last Updated: 9:29PM GMT 14 Mar 2009
Details obtained under the freedom of information act show that museums including the Natural History ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
In the interview reproduced below from the Nigerian paper, Vanguard, Dr. Layiwola speaks about her work as a teacher at the University of Lagos and as a metal caster. She also refers to the continued debate on the restitution of the Benin bronzes that were looted by the British during ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Ancient ring stolen from museum
A 14th century gold ring has been stolen from a display in Havant museum.
The thief entered the museum in East Street and unscrewed a panel to gain access to the perspex box containing the ring.
The case and the ring worth around £750 were then taken.
It was ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
BOSTON, MA In anticipation of March 18, 2009, the 19th anniversary of the theft of thirteen priceless artworks from its collection, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, today reissued reassurances of a $5 million reward and complete confidentiality for anyone who comes forward with information leading to the return of ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Beutekunst
Liebesgruß aus Moskau
Von Kerstin Holm, Moskau
Zeigt Initiative: Martin Roth, Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden:
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13. März 2009
In der deutsch-russischen Beutekunstdebatte wird die Verhärtung der politischen Fronten durch eine üppig erblühte Forschungsindustrie beinahe aufgewogen. Die staatlichen Museumssammlungen Dresden, die, obwohl sie die meisten ihrer entführten Schätze zurückbekamen, noch immer viele Kunstwerke ...
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Saturday, March 14th, 2009
14 March 2009
The University of Iowa Art Library is in a building that is unoccupied due to damage by a river flooding last June. The art library collection was left in the Art Building and service provided to patrons by staff going to the building once or twice a day, ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Treaty on antiquities hinders access for museums by James Cuno
By James Cuno March 28th, 2009; Vol.175 #7 (p. 32)
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41671/title/Treaty_on_antiquities_hinders_access_for_museums_by_James_Cuno
James Cuno, a past president of the Association of Art Museum Directors, has spent years investigating implications of a United Nations treaty: the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Bulgaria Demands that Greece Return Byzantine Plates
BalkanTravellers.com
12 March 2009 | A Bulgarian court recently ruled for the confiscation of the nine Byzantine plates purchased by three Greek museums in Greece in 2004.
The confiscation is possible on the basis of a special EU law, which Greece has not yet adopted, according ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Thief mails Sun God bead back to Museum Siam
Published on March 12, 2009
The thief who made headlines by stealing an ancient Sun God bead from Museum Siam during an exhibition last week has mailed the bead back to the museum.
Museum Siam staffs checked letters in the morning and found the ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
By Benjamin Youngquest
Epoch Times Staff Mar 11, 2009
A painting by Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712), View of Nyenrode Castle on the Vecht, late 17th – early 18th century, oil on panel. Exhibited at the Jewish Museum exhibtion opening on Saturday. (Marei von Saher, the heir of Jacques Goudstikker.):
NEW YORK—A rare ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Four years ago at an international numismatic display in Verona, Italy, a specialized police unit working for the protection of cultural heritage, checked four Bulgarian nationals selling antiques. They came from Knezja and Lovech, Northern Bulgaria.
“The Italian police found that they did not have any papers confirming ownership of antique ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
di Redazione
A Firenze, Roma e Napoli saranno esposte molte delle opere recuperate dai Carabinieri dei Beni culturali, la struttura istituita nel 1969 e che da allora ha salvato dalla criminalità 800mila reperti archeologiche e 15mila opere
Era il 23 marzo del 1976 quando in un albergo di Locarno, in Svizzera, vennero ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Norwegian police detain suspect in theft of Renaissance painting
OSLO — Police have recovered a 450-year-old Renaissance painting, days after it was stolen from a church in southern Norway, and detained a suspect on preliminary charges of theft, an inspector said Wednesday.
The painting "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me" ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Museum Ludwigsburg
Gemälde gestohlen - Zeugen gesucht
10.03.2009 -
Ludwigsburg - Am vergangen Samstag ist aus den Räumen des städtischen Museums Ludwigsburg ein Gemälde der Malerin Ludovike Simanowiz gestohlen worden. Über den Wert des Gemäldes können derzeit noch keine konkreten Angaben gemacht werden.
Das Gemälde ist ein Kinderporträt aus dem Jahr 1815 und zeigt ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
I enjoyed reading the article entitled “Yours, Mine, Ours: Taking the Culture out of Cultural Property” in Antiquities Watch and I have sympathy for some of the views expressed there. It is an interesting article and offers food for thought. However, when I started to reflect on a few of ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Mar 10, 2009, 17:16 GMT
Cairo - Nine paintings were stolen from Mohammed Ali Pasha's palace, a museum that lies on the Nile banks in northern Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture said on Tuesday.
'Officials at the palace say the paintings were last seen Monday afternoon just before the palace was ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Image taken on March 8, 2009 of a work of art made by Flemish painter Jan Brueghel in Driebergen, Holland. The Dutch police have recuperated eight paintings made by Pissarro and Renoir, among others, that had been missing since 1987. The works of art, from the XVII and XIX, disappeared ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Der Schrecken steckt uns allen noch in den Gliedern. Der Einsturz des Historischen Archivs Köln am 3. März 2009 ist eine menschliche und kulturhistorische Katastrophe, deren Ausmaß man erst langsam begreift.
Das Historische Archiv Köln war nicht nur eines der größten, sondern auch der ältesten Stadtarchive. Seit 1320 wurden die Beschlüsse ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Policie zatkla podezřelé z krádeže cenných obrazů
Hradec Kralove - The police have arrested two men suspected of the theft of valuable works by Czech painters Jan Zrzavy and Vaclav Spala from the museum in Novy Bydzov, east Bohemia, in November, regional police spokeswoman Iva Markova told CTK today.
One of the ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Objects return to Turkey
ANKARA - A candle and coin from Anatolia were seized in Austria when a Turkish citizen tried to sell the objects. While in a different occurrence, an Austrian citizen donated the pages of a handwritten Koran to Turkey.
Turkish Cultural Assets and Museums General Director Orhan Düzgün said ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Bt50,000 offered for tip-off of stolen bead
The National Discovery Museum Institute is offering Bt50,000 cash prize for a tip-off about a stolen ancient bead.
Bearing the face of the sun god, the tiny bead carries much historical value.
It was stolen from an exhibition at the institute or Museum Siam on March ...
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