Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Thieves steal Dinostar exhibits
Saturday, May 23, 2009,
A DISPLAY about dinosaurs has been ruined after rare exhibits were stolen in a raid on a Hull museum.
Dinostar, Yorkshire's only dinosaur visitor attraction, in Humber Street, city centre, was burgled – damaging an exhibition which is used to educate children.
Among the items stolen ...
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Cool museum thieves captured on film stealing valuable antique
Date: 23 May 2009
By Mark Branagan
THIEVES kept their cool to steal a 17th century barometer from a Yorkshire museum – walking past unsuspecting security guards with the 3ft antique hidden under a coat.
Staff at Fairfax House in York realised something was wrong ...
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
By By Asadullah
Karachi
The local art market has witnessed a boom exclusively for a few art galleries that have outfoxed older establishments with their rapid commercial success. Their prosperity is directly linked to the clandestine sale of forged artworks in the garb of authentic masterpieces, local artists claimed.
However, ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
"A famous American museum director, from a very well-known museum in New York, once wrote that he could not identify an image inserted in one of my articles (a Nok sculpture) because his museum did not have such a piece from that culture. The underlying argument, of course, is that ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
May 20, 2009 by The Limping Messenger/De Hinkende Bode
An earlier post of the Limping Messenger of May 6th. 2009 about the armed robbery of the Scheringa Museum in the Netherlands (The museum of lootings and the looting of museums) displayed a picture of one of the two works of art ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
6 landscape paintings stolen from Dutch museum
By ARTHUR MAX
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Thieves pried open the emergency door of a small
Dutch museum with an iron bar and made off with six 17th- and 19th-
century landscape paintings — the second major art heist in 10 days in
the Netherlands.
The break-in at 3 a.m. ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:03:29 +0100
From: Antiquates - Fine and Rare Books
Subject: STOLEN BOOKS - Ian Fleming and Jeremy Taylor
The following two titles were stolen from our stand at the Royal National
Hotel on Sunday afternoon, we would be most grateful to hear ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Museum counts losses as squirrel thief strikes
Published Date: 12 May 2009
By Andrew Picken
IT sounds like a rather antiquated list of items from the conveyor belt of the Generation Game. Stuffed squirrels, a Military Cross medal and an embroidered satin picture of an angel in silk threads are among the items ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Three Valuable Paintings Stolen in Brazil
SAO PAULO – A group of 20 heavily armed men stole three valuable
paintings by Brazilian artists Candido Portinari and Tarsila do Amaral
from a house in Sao Paulo over the weekend, police said.
Portinari’s “O Cangaceiro” and “Retrato de Maria,” and Do Amaral’s
“Figura em Azul” were stolen ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Famous Kjarval Painting Stolen in Broad Daylight
11/05/2009.
A young couple stole a famous painting by one of Iceland’s most celebrated artists, Jóhannes S. Kjarval, from an exhibition at Reykjavík Art Museum – Kjarvalsstadir in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon. The painting has been returned to the museum undamaged.
“It was an unfortunate ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Roban de museo paraguayo tallas jesuíticas valuadas en 500.000 dólares
Decenas de tallas religiosas jesuíticas del siglo XVII, valuadas en
500.000 dólares, así como otras antigüedades fueron robadas de un
museo de la localidad de Capiatá, a 25 kilómetros de Asunción,
informaron hoy fuentes de la policía.
Entre las tallas de madera que fueron sustraídas ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Rare First Nations head-dress stolen
Canwest News Service.
May 9, 2009.
BELLA BELLA, B.C.— RCMP are asking the public to be on the lookout for a unique aboriginal head-dress stolen from a deceased elder's home.
"This head-dress was used by the respected elder in numerous aboriginal cultural events across Canada. Most notably, it was ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Former museum curator suspected of selling museum items on eBay
Sean Garmire/The Times-Standard.
Posted: 05/08/2009 01:21:08 AM PDT.
A recently hired Fortuna museum curator is under investigation by police after he was arrested in late April for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars worth of museum property and selling it over the Internet.
Robert Newell, ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Picking up the Parthenon pieces
FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2009
On a recent visit to Stockholm I heard how the marvellously energetic Swedish Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles have on two previous occasions returned to Athens small fragments from the Parthenon that had been picked up as souvenirs by Swedish ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
I find the proposal to apply principles developed in child custody cases to disputes regarding the ownership of looted artefacts, very interesting but also problematic and, in the end, not feasible. (1)
To compare cultural artefacts with children under any circumstances is itself very disputable. Artworks cannot be compared to children ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Sisma Abruzzo/ Pompieri recuperano 'Madonna del popolo aquilano'
Proseguono lavori messa in sicurezza chiese
Ritrovata nella chiesa di San Marco all'Aquila il quadro della 'Madonna del popolo aquilano'. I vigili del fuoco unitamente al personale spelo-alpino-fluviale (Saf) hanno ritrovato il quadro nel quale si venera la Madonna, all'interno della chiesa mentre erano ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Watch stolen from Lowestoft museum
05 May 2009
A POCKET watch presented as a mark of gratitude for bravery after a daring sea rescue has been stolen from a museum in Lowestoft.
The antique gold watch was taken in a break-in at the Lowestoft and East Suffolk Maritime Museum in Sparrows Nest Gardens.
Now ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Creen que coleccionistas robaron 26 valiosas piezas del museo de San José
[05/05/2009 | 05:42 ] - Se trata de objetos de origen suizo, que datan de 1930 y podrían ser ingresados al mercado de antigüedades; Hubo varios allanamientos sin mayores novedades para apuntalar la idea de que coleccionistas podrían haber ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
A Culture’s Heritage Facing Ruin And a Museum Unable to Save It
May 5, 2009
Candra Malik
The disappearance of ancient scrolls from the shelves of Solo’s Radya Pustaka Museum is the latest incident to plague the museum and has raised concerns that the institution itself is at risk due to inadequate funding ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Tucson Museum of Arts worker arraigned in $973,000 theft
By Kim Smith.
Arizona Daily Star.
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.04.2009.
A former Tucson Museum of Arts employee was arraigned Monday afternoon on charges alleging she stole $973,000 from the museum between 2003 and 2008.
Ruth Sons pleaded not guilty to three counts of fraud, three ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Spectacular finds, criminal charges.
Published on Sunday, May 03, 2009.
Last modified on 5/4/2009 at 9:24 am.
By ED KEMMICK.
Of The Gazette Staff.
DAY 1: This is the first of a four-part series examining the troubled history of Nate Murphy, who is awaiting sentencing on state and federal charges of theft stemming from his ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Overval op Scheringa Museum: 2 schilderijen weg
Van onze verslaggever Harmen Bockma
gepubliceerd op 01 mei 2009 16:39, bijgewerkt op 1 mei 2009 17:50
AMSTERDAM - Bij een overval op het Scheringa Museum voor Realisme in Spanbroek hebben meerdere personen twee belangrijke kunstwerken buitgemaakt. Het gaat om een gouache van Salvador Dali uit ...
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