Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Certainly, the 20th anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Theft has revived and rallied public support for the recovery of the missing masterpieces. Over the past month, there has been tremendous media coverage of the largest single art theft in history. Often, in its reports, the press recounts "the night ...
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Art Theft Central: What can recoveries tell us about art theft?
Over the past week there have been the recoveries of a Juan Gris untitled painting, Paul Klee's Portrait in the Garden, and Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette No. 4. What do these cases reveal about art theft, or ...
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Hundreds of artworks in Turkish museum stolen and replaced with fakes
Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: March 26. 2010 12:12AM UAE / March 25. 2010 8:12PM
GMT
ISTANBUL // Inspectors in a state-run museum in Turkey’s capital
Ankara have raised the alarm after finding that hundreds of paintings
by Turkish masters have been replaced ...
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
On display in Russia museums: fears of items gone astray
After a curator at the renowned Hermitage made off with hundreds of
pieces, Putin ordered a national audit of museums. The report is due
soon, and officials are seeking to minimize its findings.
By Megan K. Stack
March 25, 2010 | 7:39 p.m.
Reporting from St. ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Kykkos claims desecrations ongoing in the north
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/kykkos-claims-desecrations-ongoing-north/20100324
ONE DAY after the unexpected visit by Archbishop Chrysostomos II to Apostolos Andreas, Kykkos Monastery Museum said it had new evidence of the desecration of churches in the north.
During a news conference yesterday Open University of Greece professor Charalambos C. Chotzakoglou presented several examples ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Vegas TV Station Interviews Matt Walker
http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/matt_walker_interviewed_by_vegas_tv/807441/Mar-24-2010_6-22-pm/
LAKE LAS VEGAS, Nevada - The Mobile man accused in the high dollar antique heist did an interview with a Las Vegas TV station.
Matt Walker talked to a reporter last month about the closing of Montelago Casino in Lake Las Vegas, Nevada. "It's just a ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Dreier’s Warhols Can’t Be Claimed by 360networks (Update2)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-24/dreier-s-warhols-can-t-be-claimed-by-360networks-judge-rules.html
March 24, 2010, 12:44 PM EDT
By Thom Weidlich
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- 360networks (USA) Inc. can’t claim a superior interest in five Andy Warhol artworks bought by Marc Dreier, the former lawyer now in prison for cheating hedge funds out of more than $400 ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Head of stolen bronze statue recovered in Willimantic
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/crime/x99765601/Head-of-stolen-bronze-statue-recovered-in-Willimantic
By GREG SMITH
Norwich Bulletin
Posted Mar 24, 2010 @ 11:48 AM
Last update Mar 24, 2010 @ 02:51 PM
Norwich, Conn. —
Willimantic police have recovered the missing head of an historic bronze statue stolen from a Norwich cemetery and cut up for scrap metal, Norwich police ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Dennis Hopper demands estranged wife returns `stolen` artwork
Read more: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1543447.php/Dennis-Hopper-demands-estranged-wife-returns-stolen-artwork#ixzz0j9C1dJ4M
Hollywood veteran Dennis Hopper is demanding his estranged wife return 'stolen' artwork to him.
The cancer-stricken actor is currently embroiled in a bitter divorce battle with Victoria Duffy.
Now in new court papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Hopper claims that Duffy ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Royal texts of Joseon found in Japan
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918318
TOKYO - Ancient Korean royal texts thought to be in Japanese possession have been located and now photographed for the first time.
Over the past two months, the JoongAng Ilbo worked to gain access to texts of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) at the Imperial Household ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Solicitor denies being axe-wielding thief of duke's Da Vinci masterpiece
http://news.scotsman.com/inverness/Solicitor-denies-being-axewielding-thief.6175060.jp
By John Robertson
A SOLICITOR strongly denied that he was an axe-wielding robber who stole a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece from a Scottish stately home.
The High Court in Edinburgh yesterday heard a tape recording of detectives questioning Marshall Ronald, 53, after finding ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Gibson charged in Kentuck theft
http://www.northportgazette.com/articles/2010/03/24/news/doc4baa758adbd21608885837.txt
NORTHPORT – It was business as usual on Saturday at the Kentuck Museum in Northport after last week’s news that the former director of the Kentuck Association was charged by a grand jury with first-degree theft from the organization.
Sara Anne Gibson, 53, was arrested and released ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Fire alarms ring for heritage buildings
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5720777.cms?prtpage=1
MUMBAI: Just the way a peer's passing reminds one of one's own mortality, the inferno that engulfed Stephen Court in Kolkata, claiming 24 lives, has reminded Mumbai of the vulnerability of its own heritage structures.
While potential disasters lay strewn about South Mumbai, which has its ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Montreal gallery owner helps recover stolen Klee painting
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/03/24/landau-recovered-klee-painting.html
By CBC Arts
CBC Arts
A Montreal gallery owner is being praised by authorities for helping secure the return of a Paul Klee painting snatched two decades ago.
A Montreal gallery owner is being praised by authorities for helping secure the return of a Paul Klee ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
ICE recovers Klee painting stolen from a Manhattan art gallery
http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1003/100324newyork.htm
NEW YORK - A 20th century painting is back in the hands of its rightful owner, 21 years after it was stolen from the Marlborough Art Gallery in Manhattan. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned the painting to the Art ...
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
The scramble for Africa’s treasures
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Opinion/Editorial/5543892-148/story.csp
The history of the African continent is littered with the exploits of plunderers. Slave traders - local and foreign - held sway for centuries, carting multitudes of Africans across the Atlantic, to plantations in the Americas and elsewhere. When the slave trade went out of fashion, ...
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Just a few hours after returning from China Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan met with his French counterpart Bernard Kouchner in Seoul on Friday afternoon to discuss ways to strengthen ties between their two countries.
One of the major issues of mutual concern was the return of ancient Korean texts taken ...
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Ex-Kentuck director faces theft charges
By Stephanie Taylor Staff Writer
Published: Friday, March 19, 2010 at 3:30 a.m.
TUSCALOOSA | The former director of the Kentuck Museum Association was charged Thursday with stealing money from the Northport-based organization.
Sara Anne Gibson, 53, was charged with first-degree theft. She was released from the Tuscaloosa County ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Dutch police arrest 2 suspects in museum art heist; stolen paintings still missing
Associated Press March 17, 2010
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Museum Artifact Stolen from Roosevelt Home
The National Park Service and local authorities are investigating the theft of a fifteen-inch walrus tusk that belonged to Theodore Roosevelt from his historic home at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (NHS). The tusk, a valued part of the home’s collection, was apparently removed from ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Feds: Drew U. freshman stole, sold rare documents from Methodist archives
Daily Record
MADISON – A Drew University freshman appeared in U.S. District Court today in connection with his arrest for the theft of ancient, historical and cultural documents from the university’s United Methodist Archives Center, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
William J. ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
In Ukraine gestohlenes Caravaggio-Gemälde taucht bei Moskauer Internet-Auktion auf
KIEW, 15. März (RIA Novosti). Das vor zwei Jahren aus dem Museum für westeuropäische und orientalische Kunst in der ukrainischen Schwarzmeerstadt Odessa gestohlene Gemälde "Judaskuss" von Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) ist bei einer Moskauer Internet-Auktion aufgetaucht.
Das teilte Museumsdirektor Wladimir Ostrowski am ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
Vol à Tokyo d'une médaille datant des tout premiers jeux Olympiques de 1896
TOKYO (AFP) - 15.03.2010 14:03
Une médaille datant des premiers jeux Olympiques de 1896 en Grèce, exposée au musée du sport à Tokyo, a été dérobée, a indiqué lundi une agence d'information sportive japonaise.
La médaille, forgée en argent et ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
EGYPTIAN SEASON OF ARTEFACTS RETURNS: HOPEFUL SIGN TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHERS?
''There is a moral imperative for museums around the world to return certain artefacts to the countries they came from, and we are going to identify how we can help each other to increase the pressure on the keepers ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Newly discovered thefts upset Turkish art scene
GÜL DEMİR and NIKI GAMM
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Turks woke up this past week to the news that a number of drawings by Hoca Ali Rıza had disappeared from the Ankara State Painting and Sculpture Museum in Ankara.
It was suspected that ...
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Nigeria Moves to Check Illegal Trafficking of Artifacts
Odogwu Emeka Odogwu13 March 2010
Awka — An artifact is any object made or modified by a human. It is part of the evolution of man in all its ramifications. It tells the greatness of a civilization and its age. Hence, artifacts are of ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
NORIMASA TAHARA
March 13, 2010
LUANG PRABANG: More than a 10th of the Buddha statues in Luang Prabang, an ancient city in north-central Laos whose urban district is a World Heritage Site, have gone missing in the past few years.
Minobusan University in Minobucho, Japan, whose students help restore statues in Luang Prabang, ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Benin1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question
Featuring a colloquium and
a Traveling Art Exhibition by Peju Layiwola
Date: 8 April-30 May, 2010 Time: 2pm.
Colloquium starts at 2.00pm , Exhibition opens at 5pm on the 8th of April
Venue: Main Auditorium Gallery,
University of Lagos, Nigeria.
The artist-artist scholar, Peju Layiwola, a Lecturer in ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Nazi-Looted Corot Painting to Be Sold by Sotheby’s
By Catherine Hickley
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sotheby’s will offer a painting by the French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in an auction of 19th-century art after a Dutch museum returned the work to the heirs of a Jewish banker persecuted by the Nazis.
“Jeune ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Ankara’s State Art and Sculpture Museum shaken by theft
Eighteen works of art, including 13 sketches by prominent Turkish painter Hoca Ali Rıza (1858-1930), were stolen from the State Art and Sculpture Museum in Ankara, news agencies reported on Tuesday.
The theft was discovered during routine inventory work at the museum, which ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Four Guns Stolen From Vietnam's Thua Thien-hue Museum
March 10, 2010 15:41 PM
THUA THIEN-HUE, March 10 (Bernama) -- Four guns that were displayed at an exhibition at a Thua Thien-Hue museum during Lunar New Year holidays last month have mysteriously disappeared, according to Vietnam news agency on Wednesday.
Two Colts, a Rouleau, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Reward offered for return of railroad artifacts
A $300 reward is being offered for information leading to the recovery of several railroad artifacts which had recently been stolen from the Caboose Museum in Whitehall.
The museum is on the White Lake Area Chamber of Commerce property at 124 E. Hanson Street, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Da Vinci trial hears of '£4m fee'
The Da Vinci painting ransom trial has heard how a lawyer thought he had negotiated payments totalling £4m to get the painting back.
Marshall Ronald conducted a series of phone calls about the deal with an undercover police officer he believed represented the Duke of ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Last tsar's medallion returns to Russia four years after theft
04/03/201012:38
The U.S. ambassador to Russia on Thursday handed to Russian officials a medallion belonging to Russia's last emperor stolen from Russia's largest museum in 2006.
The silver medallion, featuring a portrait of Peter the Great and belonging to Russia's last Tsar Nicholas ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Revealed: 1950s rag week students who stole Bristol museum's stuffed gorilla
Mystery of Alfred the gorilla's 60-hour escapade finally solved
• Steven Morris
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 March 2010 14.35 GMT
It was never as big a mystery as the disappearance of Lord Lucan or that of the racehorse Shergar. But for a few ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
DNA clues hunted in ’90 art theft
FBI hopes technology can yield lead in Gardner Museum case
By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Correspondent | March 4, 2010
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the theft of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI is resubmitting evidence taken from the crime ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
http://www.abn.info.ve/noticia.php?articulo=222767&lee=4
Caracas, 02 Mar. ABN.- Cuatro hombres fueron sentenciados a 12 años, 3 meses y 10 días de prisión, mientras otros dos serán enjuiciados, por el robo en el Museo Diocesano de la Virgen del Valle, ubicado en el municipio García del estado Nueva Esparta, hecho ocurrido el 10 de noviembre ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Five men threatened to destroy the Madonna of the Yarnwinder, a world-famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, unless its aristocratic owners paid a ransom of £4.25million, a court heard.
By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent Published: 4:53PM GMT 01 Mar 2010
The Madonna of the Yarnwinder painting, which is estimated to be worth ...
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