Archive for July, 2011
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
The Art Newspaper’s New York office is looking for a qualified intern interested in gaining work experience in art publishing. The internship will run from September to December. You must be available to work at least 2 days per week. Responsibilities include working on exhibition preview texts, entering exhibition information ...
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
art-crime.blogspot.comhttp://art-crime.blogspot.com/2011/07/author-and-historian-peter-watson.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arcablog+%28ARCAblog%29
Author and Historian Peter Watson Discussed What He Called “Some Unpublished and Un-pulishable Details about Recent Art Crimes”
Peter Watson (Photo by Urska Charney)
by Catherine Schofield Sezgin
Peter Watson, author of numerous books including “The Medici Conspiracy” and “Sotheby’s the Inside Story”, leaned back in his chair in front of the audience ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 26, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
PHILADELPHIA SHOP OWNER CHARGED IN AFRICAN ELEPHANT IVORY SMUGGLING INVESTIGATION
Federal Agents Seize Approximately One Ton of Elephant Ivory
BROOKLYN, NY – The owner of a Philadelphia African art store, Victor Gordon, was arrested earlier today on charges of conspiracy, smuggling and Lacey Act violations related to ...
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
paul-barford.blogspot.comhttp://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2011/07/burgling-metal-detectorist-offers-relic.html
Burgling Metal Detectorist Offers Relic to Pay Back Damage Debt
.I thought I'd written about this before, but it seems not (Portsmouth News,'Burglar offers relic to pay back damage debt', Saturday 23 July 2011):
Drunken burglar William Wilson, who caused thousands of pounds of damage by trashing a pub, will pay off ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
paul-barford.blogspot.comhttp://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2011/07/only-intrested-in-istry-largest-metal.html
Only Intrested in the 'Istry? Largest metal detecting forum admits major cover-up
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Over on Heritage Action's webpage is an interesting text on the flip-flopping of the ethos of the UK's oldest and largest metal detecting forum. In the old days when some of us thought it was worth talking to artefact ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
lootingmatters.blogspot.comhttp://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-is-revolution-turkey-and-cultural.html
Looting Matters: "This is a revolution": Turkey and Cultural Property
Today's
Times
(London) had a report of Turkey's recently claims on cultural property (Alexander Christie-Miller, "Victory in campaign to seize back priceless artefacts lost to the world",
The Times
July 22, 2011 [pay to view]). The prompt relates to the return of the "Weary Herakles" ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.comhttp://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.com/2011/07/double-standards-unprovenanced-athenian.html
Unprovenanced Athenian Decadrachms in Greek National Coin Collection and Alpha Bank Collection
As set forth below, Greek cultural bureaucrats and their allies in the archaeological community have lobbied for the inclusion of coins in the newly announced MOU with Greece.
Yet, why should the US Government preclude American citizens from importing unprovenanced ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.comhttp://culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.com/2011/07/bail-set-lawyers-file-appearances-in.html
Bail Set, Lawyers File Appearances in Khouli Antiquities Smuggling Case
A multiple count felony indictment against Moussa "Morris" Khouli, Joseph A. Lewis II, Salem Alshdaifat, and Ayman Ramadan charges the defendants with antiquities smuggling crimes. Three defendants are now actively engaged in their cases that are before the federal court of ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Is Zahi Hawass Ever NOT In the News?
Posted on July 21, 2011 by Kimberly Alderman
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When normal people lose their jobs, they go home, tell their spouses, have a drink, and hope they find work before friends and family catch on. Not Zahi Hawass. As a long-time media darling, he was already positioned for ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
"Much attention has been paid to the forces at work against the foundation, but in fact the seeds of destruction were sown by the hands of Barnes himself."
James Panero has the cover story in the new issue of Philanthropymagazine on the Barnes Foundation. He says it's "been a case study in how an institution ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
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