Archive for April, 2011
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Stéphane Breitwieser may be Europe's most notorious art thief. And, after having stolen over 240 works of art — including a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder and some Renaissance jewels — served prison time, and, naturally, published a memoir ("Confessions of an Art Thief"), the man is at it again. The 39-year-old was arrested near Strasbourg, France, ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
EASTHAM - Park rangers say two pieces of scrimshaw have been stolen from the Cape Cod National Seashore Museum.
Chief Ranger Bob Grant says the theft from a locked case at the Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham was discovered Monday.
He tells WXTK-FM that one piece is a 22-inch long walrus ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian museum should return a precious Gustav Klimt painting to the heir of its rightful owner after researchers discovered the piece was confiscated by Nazis during World War II, officials said Thursday.
The painting, "Litzlberg am Attersee," currently owned by Salzburg's modern art museum, MdM Salzburg is ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
LONDON. Following a recent spate of porcelain thefts in England, Graham Geoffrey Harkin, 57, of Wakefield was sentenced to nine years in prison at Carlisle Crown Court. Harkin pleaded guilty to three charges of burglary or handling stolen goods.
The most serious loss was at Firle Place in Sussex, where £1m ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Egypt Archaeology Chief Zahi Hawass to Appeal Jail Term on Bookshop Plan - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-18/egypt-s-archaeology-chief-zahi-hawass-to-appeal-jail-term-1-.html
April 21, 2011
Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s minister of state for antiquities, said he will appeal a one-year jail sentence imposed on him yesterday.
The sentence is related to a lawsuit accusing him of refusing to carry out a court ruling, ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The legitimate owner of Niko Pirosmani's painting "Black Lion", Apolon Kutateladze’s son Karaman Kutateladze, said his signature was forged on the document on the sale of the painting. The document was sent from Moscow.
Georgian law enforcement reports that the painting was stolen from the family of Apolon Kutateladze in 1993. Kutateladze was the rector of ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
El asalto ocurrió anoche en el museo ubicado en calles Sarmiento y San Martín. Los ladrones entraron al lugar luego de violentar uno de los ventanales. Se llevaron valiosas piezas de orfebrería.
Ladrones robaron reliquias y orfebrerías en oro y plata de un museo de la ciudad bonaerense de Rauch, a unos ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Roma, 18 abr (EFE).- Italia devolvió hoy a España dos ménsulas talladas en madera del siglo XV que, a finales de los años setenta, fueron sustraídas de la Catedral de Oviedo y que fueron halladas por las autoridades italianas en 2001 en Turín (norte).
Las dos obras, de estilo tardo-gótico español, iban a ser ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, México, abr 18, 2011.- Resultado de siete años de un largo proceso de diligencias, por las vías judicial y diplomática, ante el Gobierno de Alemania, que concluyeron exitosamente, México recupera 49 piezas arqueológicas que fueron sustraídas ilegalmente del territorio nacional.
Se trata de la primera entrega que se hace a México de ...
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
CASHMERE, Wash. (AP) — A bottle of morphine tablets from World War I has been stolen from a pioneer village at the Cashmere Museum.
The person who took the pills isn't likely to get high, because according to the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center the pills are too old to have any drug effect.
The Chelan County Sheriff's ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2011
Pachuca.- El arte sacro en Hidalgo se encuentra vulnerable a los robos, pero para tratar de evitarlos el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) realiza labores de sensibilización con los encargados de las distintas parroquias para que cuiden el patrimonio histórico del estado, afirmó Miguel Ángel Caraveo Chávez, delegado estatal de la dependencia federal.
“El arte ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The theft of Egyptian antiquities not only concerns me, but Egypt as a whole. However, let me say that during the past seven years we have been able to return more than five thousand artifacts to Egypt, which were stolen or smuggled out of the country in various ways. Soon ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
MADRID, April 15 (UPI) -- Two valuable paintings that are considered part of Spain's art heritage were found by police more than 10 years after they were stolen, officials said.
The works by El Greco and Francisco de Goya were discovered in the province of Alicante, Think Spain reported.
The paintings were reported missing in the ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) - A Nevada man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for moving a 300-pound ancient rock art petroglyph from the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area to his Pahrump front yard.
Court records show that 58-year-old Michael Cook is due to surrender June 6 following sentencing March 30 on ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2011
St. Aidan's in Wentworth - not far from Lachute - was robbed sometime this week.
Two stained glass windows - including one depicting St. Aidan - were stolen.
It's the third church targeted since the beginning of April.
A church in Grenville was robbed of 14 windows and St. Paul's in Dunany lost a pane ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Iroquois Pipe Stolen from the Rochester Museum & Science Center
An Iroquois clay smoking pipe with open mouth bird, c. 1670 is missing from the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC). The pipe is labeled with the catalog number 10197/216.
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http://www.museum-security.org/theftreport_rochester_museum.htm
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Two Byzantine icons of the 18th century depicting Apostles Andreas and Iacovos, were located in Germany and recovered by the Church of Cyprus.
A statement by the Representation of the Church of Cyprus to the European Union said the two icons, which are the work of the School of Iconography of ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Two policemen of Scotland Yard’s Arts and Antiquity Unit delivered personally to the Greek Embassy of London six pictures of Saints that have been stolen. They were found at Richard Deble’s Gallery in London. When Mr. Deble was questioned by the English policemen, he claimed that he had bought the pictures from some Greek ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
SEOUL, April 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's culture minister on Thursday welcomed the return of ancient Korean royal books from France, 145 years after they were looted during an invasion of a small island west of Seoul.
Following the arrival of the 75 volumes of the looted "Oegyujanggak" books earlier in ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
RESTITUTIONS COMMITTEE ISSUES THREE RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING CLAIMS TO STOLEN WORKS OF ART
The Restitutions Committee is publishing three recommendations, which were issued in recent months. In these, the Committee advises the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science to return two works of art to the former owners’ heirs. The ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Berlin's state library handed back 13 books stolen by the Nazis to the Jewish community Wednesday as the German government pledged to redouble its efforts to return plundered cultural treasures.
The emotional ceremony came about thanks to a new drive to research the provenance of state holdings with the aim of ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Ritrovati dai Carabinieri della Tutela del Patrimonio culturale, sono stati riconosciuti perché inventariati.
Firenze, 12 aprile 2011. – Due dipinti ottagonali della stessa mano, un anonimo artista del XVIII secolo, raffiguranti il ratto di Europa e una donna nuda con satiri e amorini, sono stati restituiti alla Camera di Commercio di Firenze ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
In August 2009, the Iraqi army's special forces unit recovered the painting "The Naked Lady" (pictured at left) from a former soldier south of Baghdad. The painting had been looted along with a myriad of other valuables and antiquities during the 1990 Kuwait invasion. According toThe Guardian's report, the recovery was viewed ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan on Tuesday launched the world's largest online antiquities database, which details every archaeological site in the country and aims to help preserve its treasures. Its creators said the Web platform could be a model for Iraq, where looters have plundered its ancient heritage.
Experts said the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
A piece of artwork has been reported stolen from the New Canaan Library for the second time in seven months. New Canaan Police said someone took a Tiffany stained-glass painting from the library last Thursday. Police said the painting was hanging in the library’s art gallery and was there at about 9:15 a.m. Police said ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
About 8,000 visitors to the British Museum in central London were evacuated after smoke was detected.
London Fire Brigade and the British Museum said smoke was detected by some sensors but there was no fire.
The fire alarms were set off at about 1145 BST. The alert was over by 1230 BST ...
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Thursday, April 14th, 2011
In an article entitled "European treatment harms African works?" in the Art Newspaper, (issue no.223. http://www.theartnewspaper.com) Martin Bailey reports that: “African art specialists are questioning the recent conservation of Ife sculptures in Madrid in preparation for an international touring exhibition. They are concerned that Spanish conservators applied an inappropriate coating ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Kunstraub gab es schon zu biblischen Zeiten. Weitaus systematischer aber wurde Kunst nach den Revolutionskriegen geraubt - über den großen Beutezug für den Louvre berichtet Bénédicte Savoys neuestes Werk.
Um es vorweg zu sagen: Dieses Buch ist ausgezeichnet, gut geschrieben und spannend zu lesen. Die beigefügte CD-ROM, auf der die Objekte der berühmten Pariser Beutekunstausstellung aus ...
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
WAM Abu Dhabi, Apr 09th, 2011 (WAM)--Abu Dhabi Police foiled selling of fake Pre-Islamic era antiquities worth AED3.2 million when they arrested the accused red handed.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at Abu Dhabi Police recently arrested two Arabs, one is a cook, while another is a construction worker, in connection ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
A musician who stole 299 rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum in Hertfordshire has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence.
The brightly-coloured skins were taken from a collections area of the Tring museum on 24 June 2009 in a break-in.
US citizen Edwin Rist, 22, who admitted burglary and ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Minister of State for the Egyptian Antiquities Zahi Hawass said 145 relics from the Islamic era were stolen from the store of the American University in the period between 15 and March 17 last by 50 of the model wearing the relics.
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145 antiquities stolen from the American University in Egypt.
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
The theft of five artist's maquettes from a winter exhibit at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art remains unsolved, but museum executive director Kate Eilertson said Monday that the facility's insurer has closed its investigation and is initiating the process for reimbursing the artist, Fletcher Benton.
Benton's work was on exhibit during ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
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