Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Monkey business by porcelain gangs leaves stately homes counting cost
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7140720.ece
Ben Hoyle and Jack Malvern
England’s stately homes are being targeted by thieves with a penchant for antique porcelain — and their victims include the Prime Minister’s father in law.
There have been at least 21 major thefts ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Six selling 16th-century idol walk into cop trap
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Six-selling-16th-century-idol-walk-into-cop-trap/articleshow/5989922.cms
Vineet Gill, TNN, May 30, 2010, 04.04am IST
NEW DELHI: The special staff of central district police on Friday arrested six people who were allegedly trying to sell a 16-century idol. Officials of Archaelogical Survey of India said the ...
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Thieves with Cavalier attitude
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/thieves-with-cavalier-attitude-20100529-wmfx.html
ANDREW TAYLOR
May 30, 2010
IT IS the million-dollar theft that has everyone stumped.
Three years after A Cavalier, a 17th-century Dutch masterpiece insured for $1.4 million, was stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW, hopes of recovering it have gone, even though it is listed on the FBI's top ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Iraq Says Antiquities Ring Busted
http://www.rferl.org/content/Iraq_Says_Antiquities_Ring_Busted/2053617.html
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki inspects antiquities during the reopening ceremony of Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad last year.
May 26, 2010
BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Anticorruption Commission says it has busted a ring of antiquities thieves and seized stolen artifacts in an undercover operation, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq reports.
Anticorruption ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Stolen paintings give a "unique" picture of Salisbury life
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8185600.Stolen_paintings_give_a__unique__picture_of_Salisbury_life/
10:30am Wednesday 26th May 2010
PAINTINGS worth about £3,500 have been stolen from the old cell area of Salisbury Guildhall.
The six watercolour paintings by Edwin Young were taken between the end of March and April 14.
The paintings were on loan to Salisbury City ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Vermont, R.I. sculpture thefts might be linked
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100526/NEWS02/5260376/1003/NEWS02
By PATRICK McARDLE STAFF WRITER - Published: May 26, 2010
DORSET — A second edition of a Rhode Island artist's bronze sculpture of a woman is missing from a local home and is believed to have been taken around the same time as an edition ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The fine art of protecting a private collection
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1581904.html
Dianne Nice
One morning in April, Katja Zigerlig woke up to find sunlight streaming into her New York apartment and touching upon a painting on the wall.
Instead of reposing in bed, as some might have done, she sprang into action, installing a shade on ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Historic Monmouth statue’s staff stolen
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8183572.Historic_Monmouth_statue___s_staff_stolen/
12:30pm Tuesday 25th May 2010
A 218 year-old staff was stolen from the hand of one of Monmouth’s historical monuments.
The military staff, known locally as Henry’s scroll, is part of the statue of Henry V which was erected at the front of the Shire Hall in 1792, ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Vermont, R.I. sculpture thefts might be linked
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100526/NEWS02/5260376/1003/NEWS02
By PATRICK McARDLE STAFF WRITER - Published: May 26, 2010
DORSET — A second edition of a Rhode Island artist's bronze sculpture of a woman is missing from a local home and is believed to have been taken around the same time as an edition ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
ttp://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7546.aspx
Ramsbury Manor loot -
the hunt goes on 25 May 2010 Despite recent developments in the case against the notorious Johnson family, including the recovery of stolen antiques in Worcestershire, innumerable valuable works of art remain at large.
Contrary to reports in the national press, many of the 300-plus items stolen from ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Sculpture stolen in home burglary
http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/article_c1f20548-67c4-11df-973a-001cc4c002e0.html
Gazette-Times | Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:00 am | 1 Comment
Have you seen ‘Exaltation?’ The sculpture was stolen sometime Sunday. Call the Benton County Sheriff’s Office at 541-766-6858. (Contributed photo)
A sculpture worth about $20,000 was stolen Sunday in a residential burglary and investigators hope someone ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Heist-proof museums? U.S. buildings aided by design, location
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052403626_pf.html
By Jacqueline Trescott and Dan Zak
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 25, 2010; C01
Last week's $123 million heist of cubist and post-impressionist works at the Paris Museum of Modern Art continues a rash of painting pilferage in Europe over the past decade, with ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010
National Archives Office ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
http://www.observer.com/2010/digging-past?page=1
Digging Up the Past
By Michael H. Miller
May 25, 2010 | 3:17 p.m
In June 1964, a group of fishermen off the northern Adriatic coast pulled a dull gray mass, shaped like a man, covered in barnacles, out of the water. It was the statue now known as ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
LOST CULTURE
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100525/jsp/opinion/story_12480035.jsp
Malvika Singh
Rabindranath Tagore and Santiniketan have both been neglected, their values and ethos have been allowed to crumble and decay, without the remotest effort being made to keep alive, celebrate, rekindle and enhance the raison d’être of the great man and his world view in today’s context. The challenge ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-amore/art-institutions-need-to_b_587582.html
Anthony Amore
Director of Security, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts
Posted: May 24, 2010 02:53 PM
Art Institutions Need to Remember That 'It Can Happen Here'
The theft last week of priceless paintings, including works by Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani, from the Paris Museum of Modern Art was not only a large-scale ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Thomson painting, once thought fake, goes on the block
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/thomson-painting-once-thought-fake-goes-on-the-block/article1578771/g-once-though...
Rejected at $30,000 in 1987, rare double-sided panel may well fetch a cool million
James Adams
From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, May. 23, 2010 4:27PM EDT Last updated on Sunday, May. 23, 2010 5:10PM EDT
A ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
'Of all that we are fighting to preserve'
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=283507
BY BRUCE KAUFFMANN FOR THE TH
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Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Second World War, was not your typical soldier, as evidenced by the order he issued this week (May 26) in 1944, right before the Allied D-Day ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
In March 1990, the Gardner Museum was inadvertently exposed by a night guard, who failed to follow museum security procedure when he opened the museum's door for two policemen without first confirming that police headquarters had sent the officers. In this case, a procedural error in museum security resulted in ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Image of Paris art thief captured on CCTV "like cubist painting"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7753960/Image-of-Paris-art-thief-captured-on-CCTV-like-cubist-painting.html
The face of the masked raider who made off with five paintings worth an estimated £100 million from a Paris gallery were caught on CCTV, it emerged on Saturday.
By By Peter Allen in Paris
Published: 6:46PM BST 22 May 2010
'La pastorale' ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Picasso work taken as art thieves strike in Marseille
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10142303.stm
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Thursday's theft targeted the Museum of Modern Art in Paris
Thieves have stolen five pictures, including a lithograph by Picasso, from the home of a ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Israeli art detectives crack a forgery riddle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052201905_pf.html
By MATTI FRIEDMAN
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 22, 2010; 12:25 PM
JERUSALEM -- The portrait of a glum, bespectacled man was about to go on auction in Amsterdam when someone at Sotheby's noticed a problem: Israel's national museum owned precisely the same painting.
One of them had ...
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7131750.ece
May 20, 2010
Masked thief steals priceless masterpieces from Paris museum
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