Protected: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Mubarak (and Zahi Hawass) the Smuggler?
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News from Poland – Stolen Painting Found in Russia
Monday, February 28th, 2011News from Poland - Stolen Painting Found in Russia. "The Girl with a Dove” was painted by Antoine Pesne, a court painter of King Frederick II of Prussia, in 1754. Eight years before World War II, Museum in Poznan bought the painting from a private collector. “The price of it was 3,000 ...
Copper thieves strike Minneapolis fire museum | kare11.com
Monday, February 28th, 2011Copper thieves strike Minneapolis fire museum | kare11.com. MINNEAPOLIS -- The theft of copper is on the rise according to police. One of the latest targets is the Firefighters Hall and Museum in Minneapolis. A museum trustee noticed missing condenser coils in their damaged HVAC units while he was checking a possible ice dam situation on ...
Furti in chiesa, il cerchio si stringe | quiBrescia.it
Monday, February 28th, 2011Ton Cremers, museumbeveiliging / Museum Security Network » Blog Archive » Furti in chiesa, il cerchio si stringe | quiBrescia.it. E’ sempre più stretto il cerchio intorno ai ladri che, negli ultimi mesi, hanno messo a segno diversi colpi nelle chiese del Bresciano. Quattro persone sono state arrestate nei giorni scorsi dai carabinieri del nucleo ...
«La statua della Madonna non c’è più» Colpo su commissione nel Salernitano - Il Mattino
Monday, February 28th, 2011«La statua della Madonna non c’è più» Colpo su commissione nel Salernitano - Il Mattino. SALERNO - Rubate, in pieno giorno, la statua e il prezioso quadro della Madonna di Montevergine. Il furto sacrilego è avvenuto nell’omonima chiesa, già di S. Maria della Foresta e convento dei Verginiani, che è annessa al cimitero di Altavilla ...
Libya’s Roman sites unscathed by unrest so far | Reuters
Monday, February 28th, 2011Libyans appear determined to safeguard their rich cultural heritage during the popular unrest against leader Muammar Gaddafi, protecting it from the looting seen in neighboring Egypt's revolution just weeks ago. Conquered by most of the civilizations that held sway over the Mediterranean, Libya's rich cultural heritage includes Leptis Magna, a prominent coastal city of ...
BBC News – Mexico’s struggle to stem looting of historic sites
Monday, February 28th, 2011BBC News - Mexico\'s struggle to stem looting of historic sites. Aztec treasure: Mexico has long wanted to see the original returned It is a spectacular work of art and a highlight at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. The semicircle of gleaming green feathers held together by rows of golden beads was, it is said, ...
Looting of King Ramses II’s colossus thwarted – Ancient Egypt – Heritage – Ahram Online
Monday, February 28th, 2011Looting of King Ramses II\'s colossus thwarted - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online. Last night looters sneaked into the southern quarry of the upper Egyptian city of Aswan in an attempt to cut and remove the statue of King Ramses II. The statue is half buried in the sand as ...
Maybe the biggest faking scandal in art market history. At least 1,100 fake Giacometti sculptures were seized in a police swoop on a warehouse near Mainz, Germany, in 2009: a haul of 831 fake bronzes and 131 fake plaster casts
Monday, February 28th, 2011The Art Market: Forging links http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/959a363c-3fb4-11e0-a1ba-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F7QmnFYE By Georgina Adam Published: February 25 2011 16:04 | Last updated: February 25 2011 16:04 ‘Nothing Matters/The Empty Chair’ (2008) by Damien Hirst It may be the biggest faking scandal in art market history. At least 1,100 fake Giacometti sculptures were seized in a police swoop on a warehouse near ...
Egypt: Persecuting the stars! Diplomat tries to smuggle ‘ancient’ object
Monday, February 28th, 2011A diplomat was stopped recently by Cairo Airport authorities, who wanted to x-ray his luggage. The diplomat refused, but his objections were unsuccessful, and the Egyptian authorities insisted that all luggage must undergo mandatory x-ray scans, regardless of the passenger's diplomatic immunity, due to the exceptional circumstances in the country. The inspectors discovered ...
Calls to save Egyptian cultural heritage ring hollow when those making them are blind to the past, argues Christina RiggsEducation – We’ve been here before
Sunday, February 27th, 2011http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=415262&c=1 Three gilded wooden statues of Tutankhamen are among the objects reported to be damaged or missing from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, following an alleged break-in on the night of 28 January. Reports from Cairo have been uneven - several objects have been listed as broken, then fine, then ...
Protected: U.S. returns stolen documents to Russia – UPI.com
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Nazi looting: Italy denies U.S. export license to Baroque painting looted by Nazis – latimes.com
Friday, February 25th, 2011Nazi looting: Italy denies U.S. export license to Baroque painting looted by Nazis - latimes.com. The first time Philippa Calnan saw the Nazi-looted painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Bernardo Strozzi that had once belonged to her family was "an extremely moving moment." Now, the Beverly Hills art aficionado says her emotions ...
Stolen History – NYTimes.com
Friday, February 25th, 2011Stolen History - NYTimes.com. Last month, the National Archives banned an amateur historian who did what should have been unthinkable: He doctored the date on a valuable Lincoln document. Now the archives has found that it has a more widespread problem, with underhanded “scholars” and sneak thieves making off with American treasures to sell ...
Over $300,000 worth of antiques stolen – Mosman – NSW Police Online
Friday, February 25th, 2011via Latest Media Releases - NSW Police Online. Police are appealing for information after over 100 antiques valued at about $300,000 were stolen from an antique shop in Mosman earlier this week. Sometime between 8pm on Sunday (20 February) and 1.40am Monday (21 February), unknown person/s broke into the antique shop on ...
Mystery is solved: Homer was stolen (From Echo)
Friday, February 25th, 2011Mystery is solved: Homer was stolen (From Echo). THE long-running mystery over the whereabouts of a missing Basildon sculpture has been solved – it was stolen, officials have revealed Local heritage group Our Basildon has spent ages trying to track down a six-foot bronze statue of the Greek poet and philosopher, Homer, which used ...
Una de las mejores colecciones de arte precolombino sale a subasta en París
Friday, February 25th, 2011Una de las mejores colecciones de arte precolombino sale a subasta en París. Misteriosas figuras de piedra del Estado mexicano de Guerrero, esculturas mayas, urnas de la cultura de Veracruz: una de las mejores colecciones de arte precolombino que existen en el mundo será subastada en marzo en París, en medio de ...
Il Giorno – Lodi Pavia – Ladri d’arte Antiquario in manette assieme a due presunti complici
Friday, February 25th, 2011Il Giorno - Lodi Pavia - Ladri d\'arte Antiquario in manette assieme a due presunti complici. Mulazzano, 24 febbraio 2011 - Tre persone sono state arrestate dal nucleo tutela patrimonio culturale dei carabinieri di Monza per furto e ricettazione di arredi sacri. L’operazione è scattata martedì pomeriggio dopo le 14 quando Massimo Tufariello, 44 anni, ...
Bresciaoggi.it – Furti nelle chiese, parroci in stato d’allerta
Friday, February 25th, 2011Chiese defraudate, piccoli e grandi gioielli strappati dagli altari, spariti dalle navate: è uno stillicidio di furti quello che si sta consumando nelle chiese bresciane negli ultimi mesi. Uno scempio che sembra si sia concentrato in queste settimane in Valcamonica dove (ne parliamo sotto) i ladri hanno visitato nove chiese. Che fare per ...
Fusillade de Labastide-Saint-Pierre. Six des huit tireurs en prison – Tarn-et-Garonne : Ladépêche.fr
Friday, February 25th, 2011Les présentations devant les juges d'instruction du palais de justice de Montauban se sont achevées lundi vers 21h30. Six des huit individus déférés ont été écroués à la maison d'arrêt de Beausoleil. Tard dans la soirée pluvieuse de lundi, la place du Coq a retrouvé sa tranquillité d'une nuit de début de semaine en ...
Thieves Arrested in Egypt Trying to Break Apart Ancient Statue – NYTimes.com
Friday, February 25th, 2011Thieves Arrested in Egypt Trying to Break Apart Ancient Statue - NYTimes.com. Two thieves were arrested last week trying to break apart an important 20-foot-tall statue of the pharaoh Ramses II embedded in a quarry in the southern city of Aswan, Egypt’s antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, said in a phone interview. Mr. ...
Larry Coben: Why Egyptians Preserve Their Cultural Heritage
Friday, February 25th, 2011Larry Coben: Why Egyptians Preserve Their Cultural Heritage.
Images of Four works of art stolen in Ajaccio, Corsica, France
Friday, February 25th, 2011Four works of art stolen in Ajaccio, Corsica, France In the night between 18 and 19 February 2011, four valuable paintings were stolen from the Ajaccio museum of fine arts (Palais Fesch). The total losses amount to about EUR 4 million. Description of paintings: “The Madonna and Child surrounded by seraphim”, oil on ...
Transfer ceremony marks return of antique porcelain to heirs of former German prime minister
Friday, February 25th, 2011Count Heinrich von Bruehl, a former prime minister of Saxony. During World War II, the Nereid Sweetmeat Stand was stolen. After a forensic investigation by ICE, the Nereid Sweetmeat Stand, which has been in the Toledo Museum of Art's collection since 1956, was determined to be the same piece taken from Dresden. Custody ...
Robert Edsel – The Nazi Treasure Hunter
Friday, February 25th, 2011There are those who believe that two of the world’s most high-profile missing artifacts are hidden somewhere in the Dallas area. It’s an interesting coincidence, given that the man leading the search for them and other cultural treasures lost since World War II happens to live right here. The objects are reliquaries from the ...
Accusation against Zahi Hawass, minister of antiquities referred to prosecutor
Friday, February 25th, 2011Zahi Hawass, minister of antiquities, has sent a report to the Prosecutor-General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud after allegations were published against him in Al-Wafd newspaper. He has been accused of smuggling Egypt’s antiquities on behalf of former president Hosni Mubarak’s family. The newspaper quoted the accusations of archaeologist Nour Abdel Samad.Hawass ...
Protected: Desperate Museum Guard Holds Renaissance Masterpieces For Ransom, Only to Have Them Stolen From His Car – ARTINFO.com
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£50,000 rhino head stolen – Mearns Leader
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Thieves have made off with a valuable black rhino head in Essex - prompting fears that its horns could be ground down and used in black-market Chinese medicines. Burglars targeted Sworders Auctioneers, of Stansted Mountfitchet, on Monday evening after the firm posted details of the mounted object on the internet. After forcing ...
L’affaire Cassez plombe l’Année du Mexique, actualité Culture : Le Point
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011L\'affaire Cassez plombe l\'Année du Mexique, actualité Culture : Le Point. Laffaire Cassez plombe lAnnée du Mexique, actualité Culture : Le Point http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/l-affaire-cassez-plombe-l-annee-du-mexique-22-02-2011-1298430_3.php February 23, 2011 Par Marion Cocquet C'est un travail de près d'un an, mis en pièce en quelques jours. Au musée gallo-romain de St Romain-en-Gal, on peine encore à l'admettre tant la situation ...
Protected: Ventimiglia: in sei a processo, cercarono di vendere un quadro rubato del Parmigianino
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Kunstraub: Städte wappnen sich gegen Kunstraub – Nachrichten – DerWesten
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Kunstraub: Städte wappnen sich gegen Kunstraub - Nachrichten - DerWesten. Da ist sie noch da: Die Plastik „Pandora“ stand etwa 20 Jahre auf einer Wiese an einer Straßenkreuzung in Duisburg-Homberg. Jetzt haben Metalldiebe die wertvolle Skulptur, die dem Lehmbruck-Museum gehört, geraubt. (Foto: Google Streetview) Duisburg/Essen. Das Duisburger Lehmbruck-Museum will jetzt ein Dutzend seiner Skulpturen aus dem ...
Protected: Corsica – Guard charged over art theft
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National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011National Archives hunts for missing treasures with recovery team. FRANKLIN, TENN. - Among the Civil War buffs wandering through the tables of muskets and faded daguerreotypes of Union soldiers for sale here are four federal agents. One raids houses and carries a gun. But right now he's handing out innocuous-looking brochures to ...
Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass: ‘It Is a Miracle that More Was Not Stolen’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass has been under pressure since the plundering of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the fall of Hosni Mubarak. He spoke with SPIEGEL ONLINE about the extent of the damage, the accusations that he is too close to Mubarak and the happiest day of his life. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Minister Hawass, ...
Police: Art Theft Discovered at Another Southampton Village Estate – Southampton, NY Patch
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Police: Art Theft Discovered at Another Southampton Village Estate - Southampton, NY Patch. Another Southampton Village estate has been hit by art thieves, according to police. Numerous paintings were stolen from a First Neck Lane home sometime between Feb. 14 and 16, Southampton Village Police Department Chief William Wilson said Monday. It is the second ...
Korea – Experts Suggest Entrusting Artifacts to Museums
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Arirang | Korea for the World, The World for Korea - Arirang.co.kr. The financial and cultural value of some artifacts and ancient artworks are enormous. And it becomes a serious problem both for the country and the individual owners when the artifact is stolen or lost while under private care. So what is the solution to ...
Looting Matters: Nefertiti and the Parthenon Marbles
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011I am grateful to my sharp-eared colleague Chris Hall for drawing my attention to this interview. Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo, and Tom Holland, were in conversation with John Humphrys of BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme earlier today [Monday, February 21, 2011: interview]. They discussed the limited looting in the Cairo ...
Indicted former law student starts own legal chapter – The Lantern – Campus
Monday, February 21st, 2011Indicted former law student starts own legal chapter - The Lantern - Campus. The Moritz law student indicted last week for allegedly stealing almost $35,000 worth of library books and selling them on Amazon.com has cooperated in the case, prompting OSU's lead investigator to predict a conviction. Christopher Brian Valdes, who was a second-year law student ...
Reperti archologici a casa. Modica, precesso per due frigintinesi – R.T.M.
Monday, February 21st, 2011Reperti archologici a casa. Modica, precesso per due frigintinesi - R.T.M.. Reperti archeologici trovati nelle loro abitazioni. Presunti tombaroli sotto processo davanti al giudice monocratico del Tribunale di Modica, Anton Giulio Maggiore, dopo la denuncia da parte dei carabinieri del Nucleo per la tutela del patrimonio culturale di Palermo che nel 2008 eseguirono ...
Protected: Heritage theft: UT yet to act on report – The Times of India
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