Archive for November, 2010
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Alain Lacoursière a été un policier téméraire et atypique qui a rapidement compris comment se servir des médias pour faire avancer ses causes.
Dans les couloirs du Service de police de la Ville de Montréal et ceux de la Sûreté du Québec, ceux qui connaissaient Alain Lacoursière le surnommaient Picasso. L'ex-sergent-détective ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Russia will take part in the restoration of Orthodox Christian shrines in Kosovo. In an arrangement with UNESCO, Russia will donate $ 2 mln for this in 2010 – 2011.
This money will be spent on restoring four Orthodox facilities which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage list - the ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
As a retired odd job man and electrician, Pierre Le Guennec is the unlikeliest of art collectors to be discovered with a haul of 271 unknown works by Picasso.
It is perhaps why the French police arrested the 71-year-old when they discovered the cache of sketches and paintings worth £50m at ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Restitutions Committee has advised the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) concerning a claim to a looted work of art. The Committee advises granting the claim to the painting Winter Landscape by Jan van de Velde II from the Rijksmuseum collection. The painting Winter Landscape by Jan van ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Edwin Rist will be sentenced at St Albans Crown Court in January
A musician has admitted stealing rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring in Hertfordshire to raise money for a new flute.
The 299 brightly-coloured skins were taken from a collections area of the Akeman Street museum on ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
A painting by Swedish artist Anders Zorn was set to go under the hammer at a London auction until police informed the auction house the work had been stolen.
The painting, "Freja", was stolen in a burglary of a family in the Stockholm area in 2004.
Six years later it has emerged ...
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Saturday, November 27th, 2010
While stationed in Afghanistan's rural Kunar province, Fred Straka sometimes came across mud-brick buildings where villagers were selling all manner of bric-a-brac, including old coins and bronze daggers.
"You'd see a lot of what looked like artifacts," recalled Straka, a Newark, Del., resident who was in the Delaware National Guard.
Though he ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Pat Leiggi is the first person at MSU, the first Montanan and the 22nd paleontologist to receive the Gregory Award for outstanding service to the field of paleontology. Behind him is a life restoration of a full adult Triceratops.(MSU photo by Kelly Gorham).
BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University paleontologist who ...
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Von jenen beiden Dieben, die in Niederösterreich Antiquitäten im Wert von mehreren Millionen Euro gestohlen und in Kärnten verkauft haben, fehlt weiter jede Spur. Die Polizei vermutet, dass sich das Ehepaar ins Ausland abgesetzt hat.
Möbel, Teppiche, Gemälde und k.k. Modellschiffe gestohlen.
Einbruch in Habsburg-Jagdhaus
Die beiden Diebe, ein 39-jähriger Klagenfurter und seine ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Polizeioberkommissarin Heidi Kröller von der Polizeidirektion Saalfeld hält die Ablichtung einer von 23 aus dem Museum der Burg Ranis gestohlenen Münzen in den Händen.
Die Polizeibeamten bitten um Hinweise aus der Bevölkerung zum Verbleib des Diebesgutes.
Münzen-Diebe haben sich auf Burg Ranis auf dreiste Art und Weise aus dem Museums-Fundus bedient. ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Austria’s Leopold Museum should return seven Nazi-looted paintings by Egon Schiele and Anton Romako to their rightful owners, said an art commission set up by the country’s Ministry of Culture.
Five Schiele paintings and two Romako works should be returned, the ministry said yesterday on its website. The paintings had belonged ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
As Peru counts down to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu by the American explorer Hiram Bingham, thousands of artefacts taken from the breathtaking lost city of the Incas could soon be returned to the country.
The relics, some 40,000 of them, according to the Peruvian government, include ...
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
No injuries or damage reported with fire at Science Museum Oklahoma building
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City firefighters are trying to determine what caused a blaze at the Science Museum Oklahoma.
Crews received a call reporting the blaze about 11:40 a.m. Saturday. Officials say firefighters found roofing material that was next ...
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
The Church of Cyprus has increased its efforts to search and repatriate stolen icons from the Mediterranean island with international observers describing the campaign as something resembling an “Indiana Jones” pursuit.
The Church of Cyprus has escalated its efforts across Europe to repatriate stolen byzantine artefacts from the northern third of ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
ROME — The return from the United States of a precious Roman artefact stolen from an Italy museum is thanks to an Italian policeman who strolled through New York on holiday this year, officials said on Friday.
Walking down Madison Avenue, the officer from Italy's cultural heritage police noticed the marble ...
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
The sale of the so-called Crosby Garrett helmet for £2.2 million ($3.6 million) has started to raise some uncomfortable questions. It is now clear if the helmet was found by "a young guy" (Georgiana Aitken of Christie's) or "an unnamed father and son" from Peterlee County Durham (The Independent). Dr ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Skilled counterfeiter does not ask for payment for 'masterful' versions of works by Picasso, Signac and Daumier The fake copy of a watercolour boating scene by Paul Signac that was offered to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Museum curators are warning of a mysterious man posing as a Jesuit priest who ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Netherlands returned an oil painting by Jan Brueghel the Younger to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis and forced to flee Germany more than 70 years ago.
“Allegory of Life and Water” by Brueghel (1601-1678) shows two ladies reclining under a tree, the towers of ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Italy fiddles while its treasures face collapse
The treasures are under threat because of official neglect and budget cuts, heritage experts say.
Archeologists and campaigners fighting to preserve sites that draw millions of tourists every year say they could suffer the same fate as the House of the Gladiators in the ancient ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
These are the faces of two people being sought by police after they apparently walked off with a first edition Harry Potter book worth £6,000 from an exhibition.
The couple allegedly distracted gallery staff before snatching the hardback copy of The Philosopher's Stone from its glass display case.
The book's devastated owner ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
A painting worth tens of thousands of Euros has been stolen from a Viennese hotel.
Managers of the city’s five-star Hotel Bristol said today (Mon) that the burglars cut the artwork by late Polish painter Wojciech Kossak out of its frame at the weekend.
The piece of art depicting a war battle ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Les trafiquants d'art ne perdent pas de temps. Alors que le Salon des Antiquaires, à Toulouse, venait d'ouvrir ses portes lors de la traditionnelle journée consacrée aux professionnels, le 4 novembre, l'un d'eux a été victime d'un vol conséquent portant sur une vingtaine de vases à pâte de verre. Des ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
GUIDE D’INFORMATION À L’USAGE DES PROPRIÉTAIRES PUBLICS ET PRIVÉS SÉCURITÉ DES BIENS CULTURELS:
download: http://www.museumbeveiliging.com/catalogue.pdf
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
CCTV cameras yet to be installed at city museum
AMC had promised to install cameras at Amdavad no Atit following the theft of a rare 1748 gold coin
Zahid Qureshi and Ruturaj Jadav
Amdavad no Atit museum from where the 10.5 gm gold coin of Emperor Mohammed Shah’s era was stolen in broad ...
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
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Sunday, November 14th, 2010
France pledged Friday to return South Korean royal documents lootedduring its invasion more than a century ago, once a source of constantdiplomatic feud between the two countries.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who held 40-minute summit talks withhis South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak on the sidelines of the G20economic summit here, promised ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
A writing instrument can now be added to the Partial Guide to the Tools of Art Vandalism...
The security woes for the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris continue after it was discovered this week that Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Cadillac Moon 1981 (pictured at right)," which is currently on loan ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
You have to be a pretty brazen criminal to steal a pretty bronze statue, but that’s just what’s happening in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. Ten of the city’s historic bronze statues have been stolen in what police believe to be a metal theft scheme. Bronze the alloy is worth ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
List of relics under threat to be released
A "red list" of China's cultural objects that are at risk of being smuggled out of the country will be released at the 22nd general conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) on Tuesday.
The ICOM conference, which kicked off at the Expo ...
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
If Thomas Crown had been an acid-dealing hippie instead of a billionaire, this might be his story.
New details are emerging about Wolfgang Beltracchi, the mysterious figure at the center of German history's largest art-forgery scandal, Der Spiegel reports.
Described as a "luxury hippie," Beltracchi spent time throwing lavish theme parties, attempting ...
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Grave robbers are looting Arizona’s historic ruins at an alarming rate, according to archaeologists and investigators with the Tonto National Forest.
“What they’re doing out here is disrupting and in most cases destroying human remains while they’re seeking out pots to sell,” said Scott Wood, an archaeologist for ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
Police: Student stole books from Moritz Law Library to sell on Amazon
By Ally Marotti
marotti.5@osu.edu
Published: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Updated: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 22:11
Police say an Ohio State law student stole books from the Moritz Law Library and sold them on Amazon.com Inc. for almost $10,300.
The suspect has sold about 232 ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
Profitant du congrès des archéologues, Serigne Ndiaye, vice-président de l’Assemblée de l’Ucad, a réclamé le retour sur le sol africain des objets archéologiques et historiques pillés pendant la période coloniale. ‘La bataille de l’Afrique, aujourd’hui, est de préserver son identité et sa mémoire, mais aussi de se moderniser pour aller ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
ART | 80 faux tableaux vendus pour plus de 400 000 francs, plus de cent tableaux saisis: l'enquête sur le vol d'un Giacometti débouche sur l'une des plus importantes affaires de faux artistiques en Suisse.
Rédaction online | 03.11.2010 | 11:27
Quatre prévenus domiciliés dans le canton ont mis sur le marché, ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
Le spécialiste du peintre Rodolphe-Théophile Bosshard et un antiquaire métamorphosé en faussaire sont à la base d’une escroquerie portant sur 80 tableaux de maîtres
Victor Fingal - le 03 novembre 2010, 21h58
Le Matin
Le tableau «Village sous la neige», attribué à Rodolphe-Théophile Bosshard, une des toiles saisies par la police cantonale vaudoise
Dans ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
By Gareth Harris | Web onlyPublished online 4 Nov 10
Better times: former Getty antiquities curator Marion True stands alongside a female statue in a museum warehouse in 1988. Last month, charges against her in Italy were dismissed (Photo: Ross Pictures/CORBIS): http://www.theartnewspaper.com/imgart/marion-true.jpg
“In the sense of trying to comprehend all that’s happened ...
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Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Stolen Degas painting discovered at New York auction
http://www.english.rfi.fr/americas/20101103-stolen-degas-painting-discovered-new-york-auction
'Blanchisseuses souffrant des dents' by Edgar Degas
Sothebys.com cataloge
By RFI
A painting by Edgar Degas that was stolen from a museum in the northern French city of Le Havre in 1973 has been discovered at an auction in New York. The French Culture Ministry was ...
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