Archive for July, 2010
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
500-yr-old idols stolen from temple in Jaipur
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/500-yr-old-idols-stolen-from-temple-in-Jaipur/articleshow/6238836.cms
TNN, Jul 30, 2010, 11.58pm IST
JAIPUR: Ashtadhatu idols of Radha-Krishna and Charbhujanath were stolen from Charbhuja temple at Muhana village under Muhana police station on Friday. They were around 500-years old and measured 30 inches each.
According to reports, the thieves entered the temple after ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Fire destroys Nelson heritage building
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/30/bc-nelson-fire-red-fish-grill.html#ixzz0vBmvacMO
Last Updated: Friday, July 30, 2010
Four firetrucks were called out to the fire in Nelson on Thursday night. (Rich Mooney/CBC)
A fire destroyed a heritage building in downtown Nelson, B.C., on Thursday night, forcing the temporary evacuation of several downtown blocks while hundreds of town residents ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
The friar and the Caravaggio thieves
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2010/07/29/the-friar-and-the-caravaggio-thieves/
Meet the Maltese priest at the heart a sting operation which saved a precious painting of St Jerome
By Anna Arco on Thursday, 29 July 2010
Fr Marius Zerafa, the priest who masterminded the rescue of a stolen Caravaggio, in front of a copy of Fra ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Painting stolen by Nazi now on display in New York
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/29/new.york.stolen.painting/#fbid=9ojdDUuCVGI
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 29, 2010 -- Updated 2327 GMT (0727 HKT)
(CNN) -- A demur redhead in a modest black dress is making a brief appearance in New York, before finally returning home to Austria.
"Portrait of Wally," painted by ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Oligarch Vikselberg Plans Suit Against Christie's Over Alleged Forgery
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35332/oligarch-vikselberg-plans-suit-against-christies-over-alleged-forgery/
By ARTINFO
Published: July 28, 2010
MOSCOW— Billionaire tycoon Viktor Vekselberg, owner of a massive collection of Russian art, has initiated a lawsuit against Christie’s auction house through his off-shore investment vehicle Aurora Fine Art Fund, demanding repayment of the £1.69 million ($2.6 ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Treasures for the taking
http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2010/07/27/local_news/doc4c4d870539a94846995454.txt
Graduate student studies grave looting in the Middle East, American South
By John Griffith
jgriffith@paragoulddailypress.com
Published: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:10 PM CDT
JONESBORO — The illicit excavation and robbery of ancient Native American grave sites along the Mississippi Valley is filling the collections and pocketbooks of private collectors and ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Conservator help salvage Haiti's cultural material
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/ap/conservator-help-salvage-haitis-cultural-material-99217269.html
By: E.B. FURGURSON III
Associated Press
07/26/10 3:50 AM EDT
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — It is slow, deliberate, frustrating, yet fulfilling work trying to preserve a people's culture.
Vicki Lee, senior conservator at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, already has made two trips with teams of experts trying ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Shoppers in Flip-Flops Drop $245,000 on Salander Home Leftovers
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-26/cheerful-shoppers-in-flip-flops-spend-245-000-on-salander-home-leftovers.html
By Philip Boroff - Mon Jul 26 14:54:50 UTC 2010
"Foothills Sunset," by Lawrence Salander. The work, with other property from the former art dealer's home in Millbrook, New York, was auctioned by Stair Galleries on July 24, 2010. The work sold ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Mystery of family's art unraveled: Stolen in World War II
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/25/1581501/mystery-of-familys-art-unraveled.html
Heinrich Buerkel artworks stolen in WWII era are returned to Germany.
By Mark Washburn
mwashburn@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Sunday, Jul. 25, 2010
In 1945, about 50 pieces of art from the Museum of Pirmasens were stolen.
Among the items returned to the city this month are three ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Valuable art stolen from 105-year-old woman
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/07/23/bc-vancouver-police-art-theft-elderly.html
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Surveillance video captured this image of the suspect. (Vancouver Police Department)Vancouver police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect they say stole a valuable painting from a 105-year-old woman living ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Sculptures stolen from Breckenridge art gallery
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100723/NEWS/100729902/1078&ParentProfile=1055
Missing art pieces valued at $7,750
By Robert Allen
summit daily news
Breckenridge Police Department seeks the public's help in finding the stolen items. Anyone who recognizes the pieces or has any information about the case is asked to call detective Jaala Cahill at (970) 547-3134.
People with ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Naples Police make arrest two months after art theft
http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=12856101
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 11:53 PM Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:53 PM EST Updated: Jul 23, 2010 12:36 AM Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:36 PM EST
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Sculpture Stolen In Front Of Town Museum
http://www.wchl1360.com/details3.html?id=15308
07/22/10 03:38PM
WCHL News
A piece of artwork has been reported stolen from in front of the Chapel Hill Museum.
Lieutenant Kevin Gunter with the Chapel Hill Police Department says piece of art was taken earlier this month.
The stolen art is titled “The Landing.” Police reports indicate ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
/20/2010 10:00:00 PM
BEN MEYERSON/Staff
$7,000 statue stolen? She's Zen with that
http://www.wednesdayjournalonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=12&ArticleID=18026
For 11 years, Cynthia Hicks' Buddha statue was the heart of the neighborhood.
People, young and old, would come to pay tribute to the 2-by-2-foot concrete bust next to Hicks' garage at the corner of Harvey and Pleasant in Oak Park.
"When ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Smoke forces evacuation of Statue of Liberty
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-statue-liberty-evacuation,0,4662788.story
July 21, 2010 | 11:37 a.m.
(Reuters) - New York's Statue of Liberty was evacuated Wednesday after an elevator malfunctioned and filled the area with smoke, said the National Parks of New York Harbor.
"The motor on our elevator started smoking," said Mindi Rambo, spokeswoman ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Antiquities cases work way through court system
http://www.sjrnews.com/view/full_story/8832965/article-Antiquities-cases-work-way-through-court-system?instance=home_news_1st_right
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Cases related to the federal antiquities raids in Blanding in June, 2009 are making their way through the court system, and the trend is toward no jail time for ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Settlement Announced on Painting Stolen by Nazis
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703724104575379783042679878.html
By KELLY CROW
In a settlement that resolves one of the art world's longest-running ownership disputes, Vienna's Leopold Museum agreed Tuesday to pay $19 million to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer for the right to keep an Egon Schiele painting that was ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Smugglers sack Sassanid site in southwest Iran
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=223267
Tehran Times Culture Desk
TEHRAN -- Smugglers of cultural heritage have looted a Sassanid structure located in the Baghmalek region in northeast Khuzestan Province.
Members of the Baghmalek Cultural Heritage Enthusiasts Society, who recently visited the ruins of site, found shards scattered around the illegal ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Picasso, Chagall Forgery Ring Jailed in France
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35255/picasso-chagall-forgery-ring-jailed-in-france/
By Emma Allen
Published: July 20, 2010
Courtesy the Clark Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Picasso's "Woman Ironing," 1904 — the genuine article
CRETEIL, France— "Do you think I should confess?" Orson Welles, says in his final film, "F for Fake," quoting the notorious art forger ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Durham University's stolen manuscripts appeal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wear-10685237
The Poly-Olbion is a poem describing the traditions of England and Wales
Durham University has made a renewed appeal for the return of six historic books and manuscripts stolen more than 10 years ago.
The items, valued at about £160,000, formed part of an exhibition at the ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Woman Arrested In Rare Baseball Card Theft
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/sports/24269403/detail.html
Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson In Century-Old Collection
POSTED: 10:57 am EDT July 15, 2010
UPDATED: 11:14 am EDT July 15, 2010
WAREHAM, Mass. -- Police say they have recovered a baseball card collection that includes century-old depictions of Ty Cobb and Walter Johnson reported stolen from ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
300 Looted Antiquities Displayed in the Colosseum
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/bija/300-looted-antiquities-displayed-colosseum
Submitted by bija on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 13:43
337 archaeological objects, some of them from the eighth century BC, were displayed during a press conference in Rome. Photo by B Knowles.
More than 300 looted antiquities, estimated to be worth more than EUR15 million, were ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Fire hits Russian art restoration center
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/07/15/Fire-hits-Russian-art-restoration-center/UPI-28911279218848/
Published: July 15, 2010 at 2:34 PM
MOSCOW, July 15 (UPI) -- Two firefighters were killed Thursday in a blaze at a historic Moscow center for the restoration of art work.
A senior fire official told RIA Novosti that dozens of firefighters extinguished the blaze at ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Heritage law out in September
http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/14546-Heritage-law-out-September.html
16/07/2010 02:06:00 Alexandra Lages
The Cultural Heritage Protection bill may be wrapped up and ready to be discussed and voted on by the Legislative Assembly in September, a spokesperson for the Cultural Affairs Bureau told Macau Daily Times yesterday.
The Government completed the initial version of the ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Police: Gallery cleared in fraud and forgery cases
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20100716/NEWS/100719885/1077&ParentProfile=1058
Two cases investigated involving Royal Street Gallery
Scott Condon
The Aspen Times
Aspen, CO Colorado
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ASPEN — An Aspen art gallery has been ruled out as a suspect in two possible art fraud and forgery investigations that were originally spurred by ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Stolen Painting Featured in Bulgaria’s National Gallery of Nikola Tanev
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=118138
Culture | July 15, 2010, Thursday
"Spring in Sofia" - by Nikola Tanev. Photo by president.bg
Bulgaria’s National Art Gallery is opening Thursday an exhibition dedicated to the 120 birthday of one of the most renowned Bulgarian artists, Nikola Tanev.
The last presentation ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Arrest in £1m Firle Place art heist case
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8271847.Arrest_in___1m_Firle_Place_art_heist_case/
7:00pm Wednesday 14th July 2010
• By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter »
Police have made an arrest in their hunt for the burglars behind a £1 million art heist at a stately home.
Detectives are remaining tight-lipped about the development in their inquiry into the ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Dutch gov't returns stolen antiquities to Iraq
http://www.paltelegraph.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1312:dutch-govt-returns-stolen-antiquities-to-iraq&catid=72:arts&Itemid=157
Friday, 10 July 2009 08:24
Germany, July 10, (Pal Telegraph) - The Dutch government has turned over dozens of antiquities stolen from Iraq to Baghdad's ambassador.
The 69 pieces include cylindrical stone seals older than 2000 B.C. and a terra-cotta relief depicting a bearded man ...
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Arrest little comfort to museum owner
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/3916959/Arrest-little-comfort-to-museum-owner
By BELINDA FEEK - Waikato Times
Last updated 13:00 14/07/2010
The arrest of a Hamilton man allegedly responsible for raiding the Tauwhare Military Museum has brought little comfort to its owner.
The 33-year-old was arrested late last month after a World War II-vintage United States bayonet, a ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
July 12, 2010 20:13 PM
Hamas Foils Antiques Smuggling In Gaza
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=512948
GAZA, July 12 (Bernama) -- Hamas authorities on Monday said they have foiled an attempt to smuggle ancient antiques from the Gaza Strip to Israel.
The police arrested four smugglers who were trying to take the antiques out through the security ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Undercover avenger
http://www.jpost.com/Features/MagazineFeatures/Article.aspx?id=180818
By NOAH LEDERMAN
07/09/2010 16:58
Restoring the Holocaust’s stolen art.
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On the West Side of Manhattan, in a gray-walled waiting room of the Department of Homeland Security, a photograph reminds visitors of the calamity, now almost a decade old, that brought down two towers, left more than 3,000 dead and ...
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Birmingham Museum forced to delay opening of new exhibition due to staff shortages
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2010/07/11/birmingham-museum-forced-to-delay-opening-of-new-exhibition-due-to-staff-shortages-97319-26830850/
Jul 11 2010
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BIRMINGHAM Museum was forced to close two thirds of its galleries and cancel the opening of a major publicly-funded exhibition yesterday – due to security staff shortages.
The embarrassing debacle comes just five days before the ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Stolen paintings of great Bulgarian artist found in London galley?
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n225121
11 July 2010 | 16:24 | FOCUS News Agency
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Sofia. Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov has received a signal that a gallery in London shelters paintings of Bulgarian artist Nikola Tanev, which have been stolen from a museum-house ...
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Warhol Wars: Legal battle over authenticity
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/warhol-wars-legal-battle-over-authenticity-2023802.html
A London-based film-maker is suing the Andy Warhol Foundation for failing to authenticate an alleged self-portrait
By Andrew Johnson
Sunday, 11 July 2010
One of the most powerful figures in contemporary art and the auction house Christie's have been dragged into a multimillion-pound legal fight over the control ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
06 July '10 by the editors
http://www.artlistings.com/media/344/police-appeal-for-information-after-dorking-theft
POLICE in Surrey are seeking information about this man, pictured here, in connection with the theft of six paintings and Georgian writing desk worth total of around £25,000 from an antiques shop in Dorking earlier this month.
The theft occurred shortly before 8pm on June ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Former art gallery owner sentenced for swindling artists
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/article_20bea410-8b28-11df-82af-001cc4c03286.html
By KERANA TODOROV, Register Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, July 9, 2010 12:00 am | (0) Comments
A former art gallery owner has been sentenced to five years in state prison for grand theft and sales tax fraud committed in Yountville, court records ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Legal Action Considered In Art Heist Case
http://www.ksbw.com/news/24155859/detail.html
Art Collection Allegedly Worth $80M
POSTED: 8:14 am PDT July 6, 2010
UPDATED: 8:20 am PDT July 7, 2010
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. --
Two individuals who allege they are the victims of a multimillion-dollar art heist that took place in Pebble Beach last year announced Tuesday that ...
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