Archive for March, 2011
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Grey-haired and bespectacled, he didn’t exactly stand out in the groups taking guided tours of various stately homes.But there was one thing that set National Trust member Geoffrey Harkin apart from his fellow sightseers examining the treasures on show.The 58-year-old grandfather would later return to the grand properties – and ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Images of recent disturbances from Tahir Square, Cairo, in January and February 2011, will make anybody who intends to send anything, including cultural artefacts, to Egypt, very hesitant. Also, the looting of artefacts from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt makes those interested in the preservation of cultural ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Il n'y a pas que le marché de l'art qui est prospère. Le trafic des biens culturels se porte bien, lui aussi. Selon Interpol, il représente annuellement 6 milliards de dollars. «La situation est alarmante, particulièrement dans les pays en proie à l'instabilité comme la Tunisie, la Lybie, et surtout ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Stolen Drtikol photograph ‘Wave’ found in US thanks to Czech Position reader | Czech Position.
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
he Mexican government argued Wednesday that a Mayan-style statue auctioned for a record $4 million (2.9 million euros) this week is a fake. Auctioneers insisted it is genuine and charged Mexico wants to quash legal sales of pre-Hispanic artifacts.
The stakes in the dispute are high — and not just because ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
DUBROVNIK. The International Trust for Croatian Monuments, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has received fresh impetus in its search for the country's stolen art after learning that a painting, Madonna and Child, stolen in 1972 from the Franciscan monastery of Dubrovnik, could be attributed to Gossaert.
According to Lady Jadranka ...
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
De brandweer werd om 02:41 uur ‘s nachts gealarmeerdvoor een brand in Café Restaurant d'Vijff Vlieghen in de Vliegendesteeg in Amsterdam. In de steeg bleken eenjerrycan en een autoband in brand te staan. Via de luifelsloeg de brand over naar binnen. Hierdoor liep het CaféRestaurant enorme schade op. De brand ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Pomp met circumstance the other day in the small, eastern Sicilian hilltown of Aidone, Italy, when a brass band greeted a truck bearing crates holding the "Cult Statue of a Goddess," the larger-than-life-sized acrolithic sculpture that was once a centerpiece of the Getty Villa at the edge of Malibu. The sculpture ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Astoria Museum Burglar Broke In Through Roof - Portland News Story - KPTV Portland.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
La Policía recupera casi un año después el Sorolla robado en un museo de Valencia | Valencia | elmundo.es.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Sri Lanka News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Etched into the surviving art of the Moche, one of South America's most ancient and mysterious civilisations, is a fearsome creature dubbed the Decapitator. Also known as Ai Apaec, the octopus-type figure holds a knife in one hand and a severed head in the other in a graphic rendition of ...
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
AFP: Unknown Renoir seized in Polish customs bust.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
An Ugly Legal Fight Over A Lovely Modigliani Painting Nears An End - Miami News - Riptide 2.0.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Art Museum Offers $5,000 Reward for Recovery of Missing Sculpture - Sonoma, CA Patch.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Spain’s police publish catalog of stolen art that includes works by Picasso - The Washington Post.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Gang leader hides ancient Egyptian statues stolen last night prompting antiquities administration to speak to Ahram Online about the critical need to replace the ex-antiquities minister,
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via Stolen ancient Egyptian statues recovered - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online.
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Six stolen icons discovered in an art gallery near the Greek embassy in London have become the focus of a police inquiry as Athens tries to unravel how the religious works ended up on the international art market.
The magnificent pieces, painted over 200 years ago in typical Byzantine fashion, adorned ...
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Two pharaonic statues were stolen and three guards injured when a group of armed men attacked an artifact storehouse near Luxor early Saturday morning.
An antiquities source said that 15 armed men attacked the temporary storehouse for the German mission operating in the temple of Amenhotep III and Wadi al-Hitan area.
One ...
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Getty museum returns Venus statue to Italy - The West Australian.
A 5th century BC marble statue caught up in a dispute between Italy and the Paul Getty museum in the United States over stolen art was returned to Italians on Thursday, as they celebrated the country's 150th anniversary.
The Venus of ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
The legal dispute between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, the man who bought glass-plate negatives at a garage sale in Fresno 10 years ago and attempted to prove that they were the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams, has now been resolved out of court.
Details about the ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
Crime History: Boston burglars pull off $500m art heist | Scott McCabe | Crime.
On this day, March 18, in 1990, 13 works of art valued at perhaps $500 million were stolen from a Boston museum in the most expensive art theft in U.S. history.
In the early-morning hours, two thieves posing ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
U.S. demands art museum hand over Egyptian artifact | Reuters.
| Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:39pm EDT
(Reuters) - A fight between the U.S. government and the St. Louis Art Museum over a death mask from ancient Egypt intensified on Wednesday as the government formally demanded the museum hand over the disputed object.
The 3,200-year-old mask of ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Prague, March 15 (CTK) - The most precious photograph by Czech Frantisek Drtikol, a picture of a nude woman entitled The Wave, was stolen from the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague during the weekend, daily Pravo writes today, citing the museum's director Helena Koenigsmarkova.
"We feel ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Using Google Earth to monitor threats to archeological sites
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March 16, 2011
New monitoring system uses Google Earth to protect endangered archeological sites
A new alert system uses Google Earth and other satellite-based tools to protect cultural heritage sites from fire, looting, encroachment, destructive tourism, and other threats, says the Global Heritage Fund, ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Greek officials have blocked the sale of a dozen religious icons by two art galleries in Britain and the Netherlands after finding the items had been stolen years ago, a police source said on Wednesday.
The icons that date from before the 18th century and could each fetch from 5,000 to ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Hawass denies involvement in antiquities theft - Ancient Egypt - Heritage - Ahram Online.
Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs has declared that allegations that he is an intermediary for stolen artefacts are totally unfounded and he considers these accusations a serious insult, without proof or documentation.
Hawass told Ahram Online that ...
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Throne of Oba Eresoyen, Benin, Nigeria, now in Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany.
At the height of the protest organized by the Nigeria Liberty Forum against a proposed auction of a Queen-Mother Idia hip-mask by the Galway family at Sotheby’s in December 2010, it was reported that the Nigerian government was in discussions ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2011
While art losses may make for great movie moments such as those that appeared in movies like "The Thomas Crown Affair" and "Entrapment," the reality is that a fine-art loss and claim can be caused by something as simple as a finger poke. To learn more about the claim process, memorable ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Sculptures worth $40,000 stolen from Sonoma museum | PressDemocrat.com.
A stealthy art thief apparently walked away unnoticed from a Sonoma Valley Museum of Art exhibition with five small sculptures valued at $40,000.
The 12- to 15-inch sculptures, called maquettes, are valued at about $8,000 each, according to museum executive director Kate Eilertsen.
They ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Colombia produces \.
BOGOTA, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Colombia has produced a "red list" of the country's cultural heritage that is at risk of looting and illegal art trafficking.
The Colombian Ministry of Culture and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) jointly presented the list on Thursday, which contains archaeological artifacts and ...
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
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Friday, March 11th, 2011
Archeologists Criticize Smithsonian Over Java Objects - NYTimes.com.
Archeologists are criticizing the Smithsonian Institution over a planned show of objects salvaged from a shipwreck in the Java Sea, saying that the company that recovered the objects from the wreck did not observe professional archeological standards in doing so, the Web site ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Heading back to Mexico a step at a time | The Art Newspaper.
MEXICO CITY. Mexico and Austria have moved a step closer to sharing Moctezuma’s Crown as Austria seriously considers returning the feathered headdress on loan for three years. It would mean that for the first time in 500 years ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Ringwood Manor grounds reopen on Monday; burglary probe continues - NorthJersey.com.
The grounds of Ringwood Manor reopened Monday, but the manor house remained off limits as a major investigation forged on into Thursday's burglary and theft of antiques and paintings reflective of New Jersey's past.
Investigators from the New Jersey Park Police, State Police, and Ringwood Police ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
A MELBOURNE antique dealer will escape prosecution despite being caught trying to sell stolen Cambodian artefacts that date back to the Iron Age.
The artefacts were yesterday handed to the Cambodian embassy in Canberra after they were seized under laws prohibiting the importation of protected cultural objects.
Among more than 20 objects were bronze ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Penn Current: Latest News: Cultural heritage scholar to discuss stolen artifacts and illegal trade.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vase, to the Italian government in 2008. Photo Credit: Jaime Ardiles-Arce
Your typical museum curator’s wish list might include a choice sculpture or a generous benefactor. Richard Leventhal’s list involves throwing ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Operazione Aitna: smantellato traffico illegale di reperti, associazione di tutela dedita a scavi e commercio clandestini | Siracusa News.
I Carabinieri del Nucleo regionale di Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, lavorando in stretto contatto con la Procura della Repubblica di Siracusa, hanno concluso l’operazione Aitna, finalizzata alla disarticolazione di un sodalizio criminale dedito alle ...
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