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Friday, April 20th, 2012
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
13 bronzen beelden gestolen
http://nos.nl/artikel/363959-13-bronzen-beelden-gestolen.html
April 19, 2012
» Bronnenbad Fontana in Nieuweschans fontananieuweschans.nl
Toegevoegd: donderdag 19 apr 2012, 10:05
Uit de beeldentuin van bronnenbad Fontana in het Groningse Nieuweschans zijn maandagnacht dertien net geplaatste bronzen beelden gestolen. Ze waren de dag ervoor in de tuin neergezet.
Alle gestolen beelden zijn van de Russische kunstenaar Alexander Taratynov. Er staan ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Diefstal bij museum Cambridge
LONDEN - Bij het Fitzwilliam Museum van de universiteit van Cambridge zijn achttien collectiestukken gestolen. Het gaat om Chinese kunst, veelal vervaardigd uit jade. Dat heeft de politie in Cambridgeshire bekendgemaakt.
Een van de gestolen voorwerpen is een beker uit de veertiende eeuw, die als ‘zeer waardevol’ en ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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Monday, April 16th, 2012
Museums President Blames Lax Security For Cezanne Theft
http://www.artlyst.com/articles/museums-president-blames-lax-security-for-cezanne-theft
April 16, 2012
With the Cezanne masterwork ‘The Boy in the Red Vest’ turning up in Serbia, the president of the Swiss Museums Association Gianna Mina has reflected on what went wrong in 2008 when the work was stolen from the Bührle collection in ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
CULTURAL NATIONALISTS ARE ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE
http://www.museum-security.org/opoku_cultural_nationalists.htm
April 15, 2012
THE CULTURAL NATIONALISTS ARE ALL ON THE OTHER SIDE
We read with great interest the article by Andrew Finkel which appeared in the New York Times of 11th April, 2012 under the titleTreasures Hunters and reproduced in Elginism under the title Turkey’s requests for the Samsat Stele ...
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Saturday, April 14th, 2012
Brent Benjamin is a fence (let him proof this statement is inadequate)...
Weird legal system: proof of ownership is not enough; victims need to prove their property was stolen.
Judge Henry Edward Autrey gone crazy - from now on thieves and fences can say: give proof this was stolen. Provenance information about ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Nederlands Dagblad
http://www.nd.nl/artikelen/2012/april/12/gestolen-cezanne-gevonden-in-servie
April 12, 2012
Gestolen Cézanne gevonden in Servië
BELGRADO - Een schilderij van Paul Cézanne dat in 2008 werd gestolen uit een Zwitsers museum is terecht. Het is in Servië teruggevonden, zei de Servische politie donderdag. In de nacht van woensdag op donderdag werden drie verdachten van de diefstal opgepakt.
Verschillende media ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
“Norton Simon Bought Smuggled Idol”
http://chasingaphrodite.com/2012/04/10/a-blast-from-the-past-norton-simon-bought-smuggled-idol/
April 11, 2012
Imagine you’re a thief about to pull a heist at the local temple.
You can’t wait to get your hands on all those statues, altarpieces, gold. In the middle of the night, you sneak up to the entrance and…
(in a different voice, the Temple Guardian speaks.) ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Courthouse News Service -
Artist Claims Gallery Forged His Signature
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/10/45468.htm
April 10, 2012
HONOLULU (CN) - Russian artist Victor Bregeda claims in Federal Court that two Maui galleries are selling his work with a forged signature stamp, and used his language barrier to manipulate an exclusive publishing agreement.
Bregeda, a realist painter, claims the ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Egypt’s ownership claim of Ka-Nefer-Nefer slammed, or may be not…
Posted on April 7, 2012 by SAFECORNER
http://www.savingantiquities.org/tag/st-louis-art-museum/
The St. Louis Museum of Art (SLAM) filed a complaint in federal district court on February 15, 2011 asking for a declaratory judgment to prevent federal authorities from seizing a 19th Dynasty Egyptian mask popularly known as Ka-Nefer-Nefer.
The mask, excavated ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Focus on the Ka Nefer Nefer "Collection History" (1) ("Here Zakki, you can have this")
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/focus-on-ka-nefer-nefer-collection.html
April 8, 2012
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The collection history of the mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer currently in the St Louis Art Museum is crucial to the SLAM claim to the object. The mask was excavated by Muhammed Zakaria Goneim in 1952 in a ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
St Louis Art Museum "Looking After" Ka Nefer Nefer?
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/st-louis-art-museum-looking-after-ka.html
April 8, 2012
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Just how well-looked after is the Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask in St Louis Art Museum? I was struck by an old photo of the object, which gave the face a very apprehensive look. I then tried to find out where ...
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
SLAM Bumper Sticker
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/slam-bumper-sticker.html
April 8, 2012
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The Malibu office of the Association for Museum Professional Excellence (AMPE) has brought out a bumper sticker to publicise the damaging effects of museums retaining artefacts which they know are of dodgy provenance.
The St Louis city fathers evidently see it as a source of pride to ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
The Game is (Hopefully) on Again
http://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2012/04/slam-game-is-on-again.html
April 7, 2012
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Rick St Hilaire has reported ('United States Files Motion in SLAM Mummy Mask Case' April 7, 2012) that the US Government is not giving up its fight to see museum-professional-right triumph over museum-wrong in the case of the Ka Nefer Nefer mask. I ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
United States Files Motion in SLAM Mummy Mask Case
http://culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.com/2012/04/united-states-files-motion-in-slam.html
April 7, 2012
The U.S. Attorney's Office in St. Louis filed a motion today in response to a federal district court's
ruling earlier this week dismissing the government's forfeiture complaint against the Ka Nefer Nefer mummy mask located at the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM). ...
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
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