Archive for April, 2010
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
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FBI Returns Paintings to Peru
ethiopianreview.com | April 11th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Today the FBI returned to the government of Peru two Colonial paintings that were recovered by the FBI Art Crime Team. FBI Assistant Director Kevin Perkins, Criminal Investigative Division, presented the artifacts to Ambassador Luis Miguel Valdivieso at a ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Restitution of Sri Lankan artifacts
http://www.island.lk/2010/04/13/opinion2.html
Apropos my article on the above subject published in The Island mid last month, I regret that I have made an error when I referred to the King’s Crown which was stolen from the museum and melted was that of King Sri Wickrama Rajasinha which was ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/04/ruling_russian_schoolroom_steven_spielberg_jack_solomon_judy_cutler.php
Exonerated: Steven Spielberg's Art Dealer in Case of Rockwell Painting Stolen from St. Louis
By Chad Garrison, Monday, Apr. 12 2010 @ 1:56PM
Categories: Arts, News
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Rockwell's Russian Schoolroom disappeared during a 1973 gallery heist in St. Louis.
Daily RFT spoke to a very elated Judy Cutler on Friday as the Rhode ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Fugitive art dealer Solly Sinai brought from France to NY to face heist charges
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/04/12/2010-04-12_fugitive_art_dealer_solly_sinai_brought_from_france_to_ny_to_face_heist_charges.html
BY Alison Gendar
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 12th 2010, 12:57 PM
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A jet-setting dealer has been dragged from France to New York to face charges he sold stolen art and antiques.
Solly Sinai, who worked out of Israel ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
I acted lawfully over stolen Leonardo, says solicitor
Lindsay McIntosh
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7095750.ece
The accused clockwise from top: David Boyce, Marshall Ronald, Robert Graham, John Doyle and Calum Jones
A solicitor accused of helping to hold a stolen Leonardo da Vinci painting to ransom has claimed that his law firm was used to give a “cloak ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8616517.stm
Solicitor claims 'no conspiracy' in artwork transaction
Clockwise from top left, Robert Graham, John Doyle, Marshall Ronald, David Boyce and Calum Jones
Five men deny conspiring to extort money for the return of the Da Vinci
A solicitor accused of helping to hold a stolen Da Vinci artwork has denied there was a ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
Reward offered for return of stolen paintings from Conrad Wilde Gallery
http://tucsoncitizen.com/community/2010/04/04/reward-offered-for-retu...
by Carolyn Classen on Apr.04, 2010, under Arts, Life
Conrad Wilde Gallery was “robbed by unknown person(s) between the dates of 3/27-3/29/10. The major loss was 13 original works of art by 10 artists as well as all of the gallery’s ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x905414338/Police-investigating-...
Police investigating bronze theft
Lisa Cassidy/Daily News staff
Someone stole a bronze sign from Temple Beth Israel Memorial Park in
Waltham.
By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff
Daily News Tribune
Posted Apr 05, 2010 @ 02:01 AM
WALTHAM —
Police are investigating the theft of a bronze plaque marking the
Temple Beth Israel Memorial Park cemetery off of South Street, ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Protect Your Art With More Than a Handshake http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/your-money/home-insurance/03wealth.... By PAUL SULLIVAN Published: April 2, 2010
Last month, Lawrence Salander, a top Manhattan art dealer who ran the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, admitted to stealing more than $120 million from clients, often by simply not paying them the full amount for art he ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Revisiting the 1897 destruction of Benin
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/ArtsandCulture/Art/5548049-147/story.csp
By Akintayo Abodunrin
April 3, 2010 07:22PM
The looting of African artefacts and the ceaseless calls for their
repatriation will take centre stage when ‘Benin1897.com: Art and the
Restitution Question', a solo travelling exhibition by artist, Peju
Layiwola, opens.
The exhibition, being organised to mark Nigeria's 50th anniversary,
will open on April ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Turf war may have ruined Gardner heist leadEx-agent says FBI was on right trail
By Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Correspondent | April 4, 2010
The FBI was on the trail of recovering the principal masterpiecesstolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from a criminal gangin Corsica two years ago only to have its ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Looting Matters: The Miho Museum and Italy
SWANSEA, Wales, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- David Gill, archaeologist, reflects on the antiquities acquired by the Miho Museum in Japan.
The Miho Museum opened in November 1997. It was decided to incorporate archaeological objects from western Europeand Mesopotamia in the displays. Thus, from about 1990, ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
After two high-profile recoveries were made in Canada within the same week, Greg Quill of the Toronto Star wrote an article titled, "Canada dumping ground for stolen art."...
http://arttheftcentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/canada-dumping-ground-for-stolen-art.html
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