Archive for September, 2010
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Cursed' stolen artifact returned to Rawene
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/national-news/4184290/Cursed-stolen-artifact-returned-to-Rawene
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Last updated 15:40 30/09/2010
A valuable whalebone artefact stolen from an historic Northland house earlier this month has been returned undamaged to the Historic Places Trust.
The whalebone whip handle was stolen from Clendon House in Rawene, west of Kaikohe, and police believe it may have been ...
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
New judge to oversee Van Gogh theft trial; resumes Oct. 5
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123519&catid=1&Itemid=183
Deputy Culture Minister Mohsen Shaalan during the hearing on Tuesday. (Daily News Egypt Photo/Heba Fahmy)
By Heba Fahmy /Daily News Egypt September 30, 2010, 6:33 pm
CAIRO: The trial of the Van Gogh painting theft was on Tuesday adjourned to ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Statue stolen from gallery
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/8419379.Statue_stolen_from_gallery/
11:00am Wednesday 29th September 2010
• By Kirsty Barton »
STAFF at Fisherton Mill in Salisbury are having to reassess their displays and security after a limited edition statue worth more than £1,200 was stolen.
The bronze piece, by artist Gill Brown, was taken from a plinth in the ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Israel Museum returns Nazi-looted artwork
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/09/29/2741080/israel-museum-returns-nazi-looted-artwork
September 29, 2010
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Israel Museum has restituted a Paul Klee drawing to the estate of the Jewish art collector who owned the work before it was looted by the Nazis.
Klee's 1920 drawing was owned by Harry Fuld J. from 1932 until 1941. ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Search for Nazi-stolen antiquities
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=9152224&maindocimg=4422801&service=102
(ANA-MPA) -- A campaign for the repatriation of sculptures stolen from Larissa during the withdrawal of the Nazi troops in 1944 has been launched by a central Greece municipality.
Sculptures that decorated archaic steles were looted by Nazi occupation forces from the Archaeological Museum of Larissa in ...
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
28 September 2010 Last updated at 11:56 ET
Winning artwork stolen from wall at Exeter exhibition
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11429699
Ovation was one painting in a series of three on display at the exhibition
The winning piece of artwork in a Devon art exhibition has been stolen.
Henny Acloque's Ovation was stolen from the wall of the ...
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
27 September 2010 Last updated at 08:25 ET
£500 reward for return of stolen Wormshill church items
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11417536
The antique items had been in the church for at least 150 years
A £500 reward is being offered for the return of antique items stolen from a church in Kent.
The items in St Giles ...
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
German court order return of stolen Cypriot treasures
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus-problem/german-court-order-return-stolen-cypriot-treasures/20100928
By Natali Hami and George Psyllides Published on September 28, 2010
SCORES of valuable religious artefacts looted from churches in the Turkish-occupied north are a step closer to repatriation following the decision of a German court.
Last week, a court in Munich ordered the ...
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
German court orders Cypriot treasures return
http://famagusta-gazette.com/german-court-orders-cypriot-treasures-return-p10853-69.htm
BREAKING NEWS
• Mon, Sep 27, 2010
A German court has ordered the repatriation of priceless Cypriot treasures, stolen from Cyprus’ northern Turkish occupied part of the country.
A press release, issued by the Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus, says that in 2004 the Republic ...
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Archaeologist says council is destroying historic site
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/09/24/archaeologist-says-council-is-destroying-historic-site-91466-27332638/
Sep 24 2010 by Sam Malone, Western Mail
A RARE Norman site is being irreparably damaged and is in danger of being destroyed, according to a respected archaeologist.
Stephen Clarke, the head of a professional Archaeological unit and chairman of Monmouth Archaeological Society, insisted the ...
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
Suspect in van Gogh theft held in Vermont
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/art-brief
Bruce Krasnow | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 9/24/10 0 Comments and 0 Reactions
The New Mexican
A man who Vermont police say may be linked to the Santa Fe theft of a Vincent van Gogh sketch was being held in Vermont ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Suspects in Buddhist temple burglary arrested
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/buddhist-1278607-police-arrested.html
September 22, 2010 4:27 PM
Michelle Kim
AMSTERDAM -- Police say they have arrested two men in connection with the burglary of a Buddhist statue Tuesday.
David Rodriguez, 27, and Hector Martinez, 24, both of Amsterdam, are accused of stealing the Buddhist statue
Police believe the men are ...
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Press release about the Landesmuseum Hannover and the stolen Tiepolo: the museum and it's respective managers showed very bad faith in acquiring the Tiepolo painting and it the way they defended their actions. A shame for the international museum community.
Important documents were kept secret during the trial thus offending court. ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Iraq to hold indirect talks with Israel on alleged Torah smuggling
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1585991.php/Iraq-to-hold-indirect-talks-with-Israel-on-alleged-Torah-smuggling
Sep 21, 2010, 13:14 GMT
Baghdad - Iraq's Ministry of Tourism said Tuesday it would hold talks with Israel through a third party - in the absence of diplomatic relations - to verify whether an ancient Torah scroll was smuggled ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
France: 3 Men Sentenced in Case of Stolen Picassos
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/world/europe/22briefs-PAINTINGS.html
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
Published: September 21, 2010
Three men accused of trying to peddle stolen Picasso paintings were sentenced to up to seven years in prison on Tuesday after they portrayed themselves in court as witless sellers who did not know they possessed ...
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Was it art or theft?
http://www.herald-citizen.com/view/full_story/9606268/article-Was-it-art-or-theft-?instance=latest_articles
by Mary Jo Denton
18 hrs ago | 795 views | 1 | |
COOKEVILLE -- Two young men claiming to need scrap metal for an art project will be telling their story to a judge soon, as they have been arrested for theft.
Terry W. ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Drouot sets out on the road to recovery
http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7674.aspx
20 September 2010 THE Hotel Drouot, the communal auction facility used by most Paris auctioneers, faces an even bigger overhaul than expected after the French Justice Minister’s scathing report about its culture and working practices.
First casualty is Les Cols Rouges, the cosy ...
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
How Art Expenses Stack Up
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575453162597091330.html?mod=WSJ_ArtsEnt_LifestyleArtEnt_4
First-time buyers are often shocked by how much it costs to own art
By TARA LOADER-WILKINSON
The hammer has gone down and the adrenaline is pumping – you have bought your first work of art. But when the excitement wears off, and the costs stack up, many ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Long-missing sculpture salmon returns to Eugene
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100917/UPDATE/100917048
By MARK BAKER • The Register-Guard, an AP Member Exchange feature • September 17, 2010
EUGENE — Roarrrrk!?!
That’s probably the sound the reddish-brown fish made when a certain someone tore if off the iconic bronze salmon sculpture in the downtown Park Blocks fountain at East ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
13th century slab of stone carving stolen from Goa
http://www.indiatalkies.com/2010/09/13th-century-slab-stone-carving-stolen-goa.html
Panaji, Sep 17 – A historic one-metre-long stone slab with carvings of battle scene, dating back to the late 13th century, has been stolen from a remote village in north Goa. Only a museum could have stolen it, an archeology official ...
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Vandals strike N. Arizona archaeological site
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_northern_az/other/vandals-strike-n.-arizona-archaeological-site
Posted: 09/16/2010
• By: Associated Press
WILLIAMS, AZ - Archaeologists are assessing damage to a 1,000 year-old rock art panel in a northern Arizona forest.
A hiker reported the damage last month at the Kaibab National Forest's Keyhole Sink, named for the keyhole-shaped lava flow.
The word ...
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Iran threatens to keep artefact
http://www.smh.com.au/world/iran-threatens-to-keep-artefact-20100916-15emw.html
September 17, 2010
LONDON: It was not an easy decision for the British Museum to lend one of its most treasured artefacts to a country with which Britain has a notoriously prickly relationship.
So curators in London are paying close attention to an Iranian threat not to ...
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Deal lets Beaverbrook gallery keep 85 prized artworks
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/deal-lets-beaverbrook-gallery-keep-85-prized-artworks/article1709540/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheGlobeAndMail-Entertainment+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Arts+News%29
Out-of-court settlement, valued by some at $100-million, ends a nasty and protracted legal fight
James Adams
From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 12:01AM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Sep. 16, 2010 9:22AM EDT
One of the longest, most bitter and ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
CSI: Mound Builders style
Crime-scene training helps protect artifacts, archaeological sites
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/09/16/csimound-builders-style.html?sid=101
Thursday, September 16, 2010 02:54 AM
By Wesley Lowery
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
NELSONVILLE, Ohio - Dressed in a loose-fitting camouflage jacket and dirt-covered jeans, Martin McAllister wandered out of a densely wooded area at the Wayne Natural Forest yesterday afternoon.
His arrowhead belt ...
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
A Missing Painting Turns Up, but the Case Isn’t Closed
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/nyregion/16painting.html
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM and REBECCA WHITE
Published: September 15, 2010
Its discovery was nearly as strange as its disappearance.
For more than a month, the whereabouts of “Portrait of a Girl,” a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot of a young girl with a ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
An Examination of Art Theft
http://arttheftcentral.blogspot.com/2010/09/examination-of-art-theft.html
Posted: 14 Sep 2010 02:24 PM PDT
The following is the abstract from my dissertation titled "An Examination of Art Theft, Analysis of Relevant Statistics, and Insights into the Protection of Cultural Heritage":
This paper qualifies and interprets art theft statistics provided by the London-based Art Loss ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Culture Minister: Van Gogh painting theft 'no big deal'
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/culture-minister-van-gogh-painting-theft-no-big-deal
Fathya el-Dakhakhni
Tue, 14/09/2010 - 21:18
Culture Minister Farouk Hosni on Tuesday downplayed the importance of the theft last month of Vincent Van Gogh's "Poppy Flowers" painting from a Cairo museum, saying it was "not a big deal."
"The Egyptian public is very emotional," ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Caddo Indian pottery missing from campus
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2010/09/14/caddo-indian-pottery-missing-from-campus-1.php
By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette - Published: 09/14/2010
LITTLE ROCK—Four days into his new job at Southern Arkansas University, archaeologist Jamie Brandon learned that 26 pieces of Caddo Indian pottery were missing from the Magnolia campus.
Four years later, he’s still hoping they’ll surface.
The pots, bowls ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Police seek $7,500 painting stolen from 105-year-old
http://www.canada.com/news/Police+seek+painting+stolen+from+year/3319395/story.html
By Vivian Luk, Vancouver Sun July 24, 2010 Be the first to post a comment
The suspect who stole a painting from the room of a 105-year-old woman living in a Vancouver rest home.
As far as paintings go, the Manet-style Emile Zola portrait isn’t ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
In the Wake of a Damning Report on Famous Drouot, Artprice Analyses France's Collapsing Position in the Art Market
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-the-wake-of-a-damning-report-on-famous-drouot-artprice-analyses-frances-collapsing-position-in-the-art-market-102765724.html
PARIS, September 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- France's major economic newspaper Les Echos reports, in an article by Martine Robert, having had access to the famous report on the Paris auction place ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Iraq - Foreign Ministry Delivers Hundreds of Artifacts to National Museum
http://www.isria.com/pages/12_September_2010_30.php
Foreign Ministry held big celebration to deliver Iraqi antiquities from numerous countries to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Iraq National Museum.
The celebration was attended in addition to the Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of State for ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
WALTHAMSTOW: Thieves strike at art trail
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/wfnews/8388486.WALTHAMSTOW__Thieves_strike_at_art_trail/
1:55pm Monday 13th September 2010
• By Daniel Binns »
GRAND European galleries housing works by Van Gogh and Picasso are the usual targets of art thieves - but now they have struck in Walthamstow too.
On Saturday night, as the week-long E17 Art Trail drew to ...
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Man arrested for theft of church doors seven years ago
Published on September 11, 2010
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/man-arrested-theft-church-doors-seven-years-ago/20100911
POLICE YESTERDAY arrested a 66-year-old man in connection with a seven-year-old theft of two antique church doors.
According to police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos, unknown assailants broke into the UNESCO-protected church Panayias tis Podithou in Galata between January 19 ...
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
German Woman Sentenced for Selling Fakes of Fakes
http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/german-petra-kujau-sentenced-for-selling-fakes-of-konrad-kujau-forgeries/19626992
Updated: 22 hours 35 minutes ago
Theunis Bates Contributor
(Sept. 9) -- So you've spent $3,000 on what you thought was an authentic forgery by a master forger, only to find out that the forgery you bought was itself a forgery. What do you ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Alleged Italian Temple Thief Arrested in Bali
Made Arya Kencana | September 07, 2010
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/alleged-italian-temple-thief-arrested-in-bali/395020
Bali. Police in Bali have arrested an Italian national on suspicion of looting local treasures.
Badung Police chief detective Adjutant Comr. Soma Adnyana told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday that they had found 110 sacred Hindu objects, known ...
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