Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
It is now five months since the issue of looted African terracotta was raised in connection with the exhibition entitled “African Terra Cotta: a Millenary Heritage”, at the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva and brought to the attention of all concerned. (1) A group of renowned scholars alleged that many of the ...
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property director-general Mounir Bouchnaki said conservation of heritage sites would not be sustainable if African states continue to rely on donor funding.
Dr Bouchnaki, who was speaking at The Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CDHA) 11th Africa 2009 ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
UNESCO pide leyes eficaces contra saqueo de arte sacro en México
Notimex
El Universal
México
Martes 29 de septiembre de 2009
El organismo considera que deben registrarse, identificarse y catalogarse las obras religiosas para combatir su robo
A fin de frenar el saqueo de arte sacro en México, la UNESCO propuso hoy en la ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
27 rare statues stolen from TN museum
STAFF WRITER 1:16 HRS IST
Tiruchirapalli (TN), Sept 29 (PTI) Twenty seven rare bronze statutes of the 16th and 17th centuries were found missing from the government museum here today, police said.
The theft took place at the building, about 20 metres away from a police ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Stolen museum exhibit found torched
4:47pm Monday 28th September 2009
A MUSEUM owner has told of his devastation after a stolen exhibit was torched.
Thieves broke into Frank Wood’s Walton Hall Farm Museum in Stanford-le-Hope on Monday September 14 and stole a number of irreplaceable exhibits worth around £2,000.
Among the stolen items was ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
IS ICOM BECOMING AN INSTRUMENT OF THE SO-CALLED UNIVERSAL MUSEUMS? COMMENTS ON STATEMENT BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF ICOM THAT PARTHENON/ELGIN MARBLES SHOULD STAY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Those who have been following discussions on questions of restitution and preservation of cultural objects know the high esteem in ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
On 17 September 2009 in Avilès (Spain), a conference took place on “Cultural Diplomacy”. I participated in one of the organised panels, which addressed the issue of restitutions of stolen art. All the presentations and discussions were in English without translation into any other languages. A brief discussion, also in ...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Turkey a magnet for smugglers of historical artifacts
Turkey is not only a cradle for the most ancient civilizations of the world but also continues to serve as a honey pot for smugglers of cultural and natural assets.
Every year, valuable historical artifacts are stolen from Turkey and made part of the ...
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Native pipe stolen from museum
A pipe held sacred by American Indians was stolen from a locked enclosure at the Goodhue County History Center.
By: Mike Longaecker, The Republican Eagle
A pipe held sacred by American Indians was stolen from a locked enclosure at the Goodhue County History Center.
Amos Owen, a Prairie Island ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Magritte painting stolen at gunpoint
Olympia, a portrait of the artist's wife, taken in raid on former home of the Belgian painter, now an exclusive museum
A postcard showing Rene Magritte's Olympia. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters
A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a Brussels museum today in a ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Julien Anfruns defends the Athens friezes staying in the British Museum
Saul Fernandez_One of the debates without any apparently immediate solution
is the one proposing that big museums return the property extracted/taken
(esquilmados) during the years during which artistic conscience did not
exist. One of the most noted cases in this area is the ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Former Midway manager to be sentenced for theft
By Staff, City News Service
Thursday, September 24, 2009
A former accounting manager for the USS Midway Museum is scheduled to be sentenced in a downtown courtroom Thursday for stealing $111,000 from the nonprofit organization.
Veronica Gonzalez Monay, 35, pleaded guilty Aug. 26 to one count ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Two thieves stole Magritte’s masterpiece “OLYMPIA” from the Magritte Museum in Jette, Belgium.
In the early morning, before opening hours, the thieves rang the museum doorbell. At the moment this door was opened they overran the member of staff and went straight into the museum. They took the painting from the ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Suspected Forgery of 1,200 Frida Kahlo Works Reported
MEXICO CITY – Representatives of the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Trust filed a criminal suit on Tuesday for the forgery of 1,200 Kahlo works of art that appear in two books recently published in Mexico and the United States.
“Most of them appear ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Deux vases Empire volés au Château de Versailles
22.09.2009, 14h56 | Mise à jour : 15h09
Deux vases en bronze de la période Empire ont été volés entre mi-août et mi-septembre au Château de Versailles. Le Château de Versailles a porté plainte «ce week-end» pour vol, et une enquête était en cours. ...
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Pocket watches taken from museum
Nikita Watts | 23rd September 2009
SECURITY at Rockhampton Heritage Village has been tightened after a night raiders made-off with a $30,000 pocket watch collection and jewellery.
While Rockhampton Regional Council was unwilling to comment yesterday, Rockhampton Police Senior Constable Dane Sheraton confirmed thieves had smashed their way ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Bend museum volunteer charged in thefts
Posted: Sep 19, 2009 03:38 AM
Missing boxes of historical items prompt investigation, raid
By Barney Lerten, KTVZ.COM
Volunteers play a crucial role in just about every Central Oregon organization, often toiling behind the scenes, with little recognition. But once in a while, they make the news - ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Former Penrod Treasurer Charged With Embezzlement
Man Accused Of Stealing Nearly $400,000
POSTED: 5:26 pm EDT September 17, 2009
UPDATED: 5:56 pm EDT September 17, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS -- The former volunteer treasurer of the Penrod Art Fair was charged Thursday with embezzling nearly $400,000.
Brandon Benker, 28, controlled the accounts of the annual September event ...
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Parrett Mountain Farm director charged with embezzlement
06:49 PM PDT on Thursday, September 17, 2009
By WAYNE HAVRELLY for Kgw.com
In a major black eye for an Oregon charity known for preserving our state's farming history, the executive of Parrett Mountain Farm is in jail, charged with embezzling at least $52,000.
Elizabeth Rhode, the ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
By CAROL VOGEL and SOLOMON MOORE
Published: September 12, 2009
LOS ANGELES — The theft of 10 silkscreen paintings by Andy Warhol has the Los Angeles Police Department searching for clues, but it has people in the art world scratching their heads, too.
The paintings were stolen from the West Los Angeles home ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Note never sold, given, family says
By Associated Press | September 14, 2009
DALLAS - The FBI is investigating a “stolen’’ handwritten condolence note from Jacqueline Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy that was penned shortly after Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The Dallas Morning News reported that investigators and Kennedy ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
A lecture by Michaelle Biddle
September 17th, 2009, 6pm
at Columbia University, Butler Library, room 523
Sponsored by the New York Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers and the Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library
In March 2008, conservator, librarian and archivist, Michaelle Biddle went on a five-week sabbatical under a U.S. Ambassador's ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Antiquities Authority chief: Top scholars were suspected of ties to forgery group
Sep. 8, 2009
MATTHEW KALMAN, Special to The Jerusalem Post , THE JERUSALEM POST
A world-famous French scholar who authenticated one of the Israel Museum's prize exhibits and Israel's leading analyst of ancient semitic inscriptions were once suspected of being part ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
By Louise Redvers
BBC News, Luanda
In the past, most people who went to Angola were searching for oil, diamonds or landmines.
Now, the country is also proving a big draw for fossil hunters - known in the scientific community as palaeontologists - who have described Angola as a "museum in the ground".
Angola ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
During the darkest days of World War II, a ragtag band of British and American art scholars braved the battlefields of Europe to rescue thousands of cultural treasures from Nazi pillage and the collateral damage of armed conflict. These “monuments men’’ propped up collapsing buildings; repaired battle-scarred frescoes and mosaics; ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Warschau - Der wahre Grund der polnischen Ambitionen ausgerechnet auch den in Polen ungeliebten russischen Regierungschef Wladimir Putin am 1. September auf die Westerplatte nach Danzig einzuladen scheint seit Tagen nun immer mehr durch. Russland soll nämlich für dieses Entgegenkommen "im Zeichen der Versöhnung" mit Polen durch günstige Energie- Lieferverträge ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
VIENNE — Les héritiers d'une grande famille autrichienne ont demandé à l'Etat la restitution d'un chef-d'oeuvre de Vermeer, "L'art de la peinture", en soutenant qu'il avait été vendu sous contrainte à Hitler en 1940, révèle le quotidien Der Standard samedi.
"Nous sommes persuadés que la République autrichienne traitera ce dossier de ...
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Conservationists Call for Protection of Endangered Heritage Sites in Africa
By Alan Boswell
Nairobi
03 September 2009
Representatives from around Africa gather in Nairobi this week to seek new ways of protecting World Heritage Sites threatened by conflict and political instability on the continent. Africa is host to the largest number of sites named ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The woman accused of embezzling money $973,010 from the Tucson Museum of Art has been sentenced to five years in prison plus 7 additional years of probation.
Between 2003 and 2008, Ruth Sons, was employed as a bookkeeper and accountant for the museum. Last month the 62-year-old pleaded guilty to one ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Three charged in theft of fighter jet parts for simulators
The accusation
The three are accused of devising a scheme to divert demilitarized F-14 and F-18 cockpits and components to one of the men in exchange for cash and gifts, the indictment says. The parts normally are sold for scrap.
By Tim McGlone
The ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Art africain : quand le musée de Lille se fournit... chez les douaniers
jeudi 03.09.2009, 04:46 - La Voix du Nord Une cinquantaine de pièces pour le musée de Lille. Une cinquantaine de pièces pour le musée de Lille.
Les visiteurs du musée d'Histoire naturelle de Lille ne sont pas toujours conscients ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Raubkunst-Gemälde bei "Kunst & Krempel" aufgetaucht
Die Experten der beliebten Fernsehsendung "Kunst & Krempel" schätzten das Gemälde auf 100 000 Euro. Was sie nicht wussten, sagte ein aufmerksamer Zuschauer der Polizei: Bei dem Bild handelt es sich offenbar um Raubkunst aus der Nazizeit.
MÜNCHEN - Das Gemälde mit dem Titel „Die Bergpredigt (Paulus ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A REVAMPED storage facility for one of the world’s “most important single artist collections” has been given the go ahead.
The Henry Moore Foundation was granted planning permission to demolish existing buildings at its Perry Green HQ in order to replace them with one, larger facility.
Storing all of the artworks under ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Art insurers on high alert for fraudulent claims
When the economy goes into recession, cases of insurance fraud shoot up. Industry specialists for the art world say they are watching contemporary dealers particularly closely
By Cristina Ruiz | From
The insurance industry is on red alert. The number of fraudulent claims is rising ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Gallery owner uses Facebook, Twitter to locate stolen painting
John Hult
Argus Leader
A Sioux Falls gallery owner hopes her Facebook friends and Twitter followers can help locate who stole a piece artwork last week.
Tove Bormes, who owns Rug & Relic at Eighth Street and Railroad Avenue with her husband Steve, noticed a ...
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