reports of cultural property incidents 1999
December 28, 1999
- Art experts fear crime wave as police cut back
- BLM's a pitiful steward of artifacts, agency says Lax oversight cited for uncertainty on ownership of items
- 2 Malevich works will be returned to artist's heirs
- Archeologists say ancient Israeli site destroyed
- E-mail clergy finds lost church treasure
December 24, 1999
- Conditions for Visitors in Museums
- Aspects ARTS (Art Register Tracking Software)
- http://artnewspaper.com/homestolenart.htm
- http://www3.oup.co.uk/intjcp/contents/ International Journal of Cultural Property - Online Services
- Ichabod's owner charged in book thefts
December 19 - 23, 1999
- Re: Virgin Mary damaged by visitor
- Re: SE Asian Art Thefts (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- CRIMES OF THE CENTURY: GARDNER HEIST A decade later, art theft still baffles investigators
- RE:Capacitive sensors (Francisco de la Fuente)
- Y2k and humanitarian assistance (fwd)
- FBI Recovers $3M Painting by Rubens
- French National Assembly approves auction reform
- Collection of O'Keeffe Paintings Declared Fakes
- Y2K Parties Banned at Popular Tourist Site; Peru's government said Thursday it had ordered the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu to be closed over New Year's to protect one of South America's most important archeological sites from thousands of millennium revelers.
- Stealing California's Mission Past by: Robert Hoover
- RE: damaged painting of the Virgin Mary (Mark Miano)
- Re:French auction reform
- Britain's Antiquities Law: It Works
December 15 - 18, 1999
- Theft Alert (stolen jewelry) http://www.antiques-world.com/stolen/Bernaerts/Volbernfr.html
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~securma/mexico.htm PowerPoint presentation at Unesco/Interpol conference on illicit trade in American antiquities, December 1 - 4, 1999 in Mexico City
- Disaster Recovery Workshop "From Chaos to CARM"
- Britain has no plans to return Elgin Marbles to Greece
- France hands back stolen Nazi loot to heirs
- Mayan Carving to Return to Guatemala
- Environment experts damage historic site
- Paramilitaries suspected of art raid
- Painting of Virgin Mary Vandalized
- Dutch museums get to keep masterpieces stolen by Nazis, court rules (Dutch authorities behaved in a controversial way regarding the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after recovering many works of his wonderful collection of old masters which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War)
- query: capacitance sensor that can be attached to the back of a work of art without damaging it.
- U.S. claims Armstong hiding $16 million worth of gold bars, rare gold coins, and antiquities.
- Buried royal treasure fetches GBP.2.3m at auction
December 10 - 13, 1999
- RE: Art Crimes (request Art & Antiques)
- Find the facts on all artefacts
- NEW EXPANDED EDITION OF NEDCC S PRESERVATION MANUAL
- Germans mull database to return art taken by Nazis
- Artist sues over damage to his sculptures
- `Priceless' Livingstone spear stolen
- Sixteen Paintings Stolen From Saint Petersburg Museum Recovered
- Re: Stolen Fantasy Paintings
- RE: Water Mist
- British Museum hit by things that go bump in the night
- Tribal art painted by backpackers
- RE: The British museum and it's things that go bump...
- Titan Painting Recovered in Spain
- British Art Distributor Sentenced
- Stolen Mayan artifact returned to Guatemala
- Stolen art not an easy sell
- Five Freighters To Bring Hermitage Art To Rome (Splitting the load would "minimize the danger of losing the whole shipment")
December 9, 1999
- Nazi link cancels art sale
- Stolen Fantasy Paintings
- Spare bedroom yields hoard of art treasures
- Emergency plans
- Water Mist
- Art Crimes (request Art & Antiques)
December 8, 1999
- U.S. Imposes Emergency Import Restriction on Khmer Stone Archaeological Material
- query: research project and museums' collections management
- Discovery of masterpieces shakes Paris
- Louvre returns Nazi art
- Meeting on antiquities turns angry in London
- Reward Offered for Stolen Picassos
- Stolen Cézanne found after 21 years fetches GBP.18 million
- Re: Museum Fires
- Exolart & an academic's inquiry (Jonathan Sazonoff)
December 7, 1999
- Stolen Goods Found Up for Auction on Ebay
- 3 works by Picasso stolen at Cordillera; 2 etchings, self-portrait on ceramic tile taken from Eagle County restaurant
- Ukraine: Church, Archeologists Seek Control Of Ancient Site
December 7, 1999
- Thieves make off with 16 paintings from Russian museum
- articles on a museum fire
- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is seeking a qualified Director of Security
November 30, 1999
- Museum to come clean over Elgin Marbles
November 28, 1999
- Elgin paid massive bribes for Marbles
- Pulled both ways: Charles wants the marbles returned for a Greek
November 23/27, 1999
- 5 Stolen Paintings Found
- RE:long term display of paper (Tom Dixon)
- Parties unite to keep sculptures
- Clinton promises to pressure Britain on relics' return
- Azerbaijan To Return 14 Works Of Art To Bremen Museum
- Trouble at the MFA
- Artful dodges. Art fraud and theft is a billion-dollar business -almost as big as the drugs trade and just as ruthless
- American Civil War Era Medical Books
- Greeks condemn state of Marbles
- Management of Library Security (Association of Research Libraries) Although libraries are often considered oases of quiet and decorum by the general public, they have their share of security problems
November 21/22, 1999
- Five oil paintings stolen from Rome museum
- light levels for paper (Joseph Delci)
- Re: query: development of fire codes for museums (Jack Watts)
- Millennium Update (Steve Keller)
- INTERNATIONAL CONFRENCE: FIRE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
November 19, 1999
- Re: art insurance
- Re: millennium concerns (Steve Keller)
- Vandal Sentenced For Writing Name On Rock-Art Panel
- Mona Lisa to get a room of her own (But the painting will retain its bulletproof glass shield)
- Thirst for money taints Cambodia's spiritual treasure
- query: development of fire codes for museums
- Call for papers - Prevention of Hazards in Storage Areas " PREVENTION OF HAZARDS IN STORAGE AREAS " 6-10 NOVEMBER 2000
- query: Computer controlled ticket system
November 17, 1999
Cézanne painting “Bouilloire et Fruits” was stolen from the Bakwin Family in 1978. It remained missing, without trace until December 1998, when the Art Loss Register was contacted and made aware of the painting’s existence. Keeping the U.S. and overseas police forces fully informed, the Art Loss Register safely recovered the painting on behalf of the owner in October, 1999.
November 17, 1999
- The Great Skylight Thefts (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- art insurance
- Vandals sack villas of Rome
November 14, 1999
- Fire suppression (storage room for a large and important stamp collection)
- S.F. Art Heist Gone Bust (Thieves' failure to sell paintings may have led to dumping)
- Return of art stolen in '78 raises hopes for Gardner
''Still, the fact that [the San Francisco paintings] were returned may be a reflection on the difficulty of selling stolen art,'' said David Shillingford, marketing director for the Art Loss Register, in New York. ''There's no question that it's increasingly difficult to market this sort of thing.''
Rare books stolen from university in Poland (Missing manuscripts humiliate famed school)
November 13, 1999
- Greeks change tactics in fight for Marbles
(Sir Hugh Leggatt,former Museums and Galleries Commissioner: "Lord Duveen exported the cream of the British heritage to America. We're not screaming and crying over spilt milk. Most of the great institutions in America are filled with our heritage. For the Greeks to start is silly.They must shut up." )
- Lost lives- the search for a masterpiece - your help is needed
- Loans Proposed to Install Sprinklers; Historic Buildings Damaged in Ellicott City Fire Lacked Certain Safety
- Stealing Millennial Loot in Israel, From 2 Millenniums Ago
(In Israel it is perfectly legal to sell the fruits of the pilfering. Some 80 licensed dealers do a $5-million-a-year business.)
- Return of art stolen in S.F. fans speculation
November 12, 1999
- Paintings returned 21 years after California heist
- 2000 National Conference Theme & Agenda:
"Challenges and Opportunities: Year 2000 and Beyond"
- Stolen Art and Antiques on the Web (Jonathan Sazonoff)
November 10, 1999
- Art heist from mansion in Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- millennium concerns (Steve Keller)
- Inventory Software (Robin Rogers)
- Art May Have Been Stolen by Nazis (North Carolina Museum of Art)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fire destroys historic Bridgeport train depot
- U.S. man charged selling stolen 16th Century art
- Italian Loot ( "Stemming the Antiquities Flow")
- Ex-UCLA Official Collapses at Sentencing in Art Theft
November 7, 1999
- Law, Art Loans and Exhibitions Seminar
- Poe Museum fire spared most exhibits
- Re: National Conference on Cultural Property Protection?
- TRACE, monthly magazine, November issue
- http://www.fbi.gov/
- Re: National Conference on Cultural Property Protection?
- BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART - FEDERAL COURT JUDGEMENT ON LINE
- Nazi loot from Holocaust victims enriched Eva Perón (book review)
- Sotheby's Caravaggio 'copy' is revealed as UKP.10m masterpiece
- Ministry to intervene in archeological dispute
- Suspect arrested in theft of doors
November 5, 1999
- MUSEUM CLEANING -schedules & guidelines
- Lost printed items and manuscripts
- $1m sale of fossils upsets experts
- release of Interpol CD, 2nd edition
- http://www.museum-security.org/elginmarbles.html Several links have been added to this page (and moderator's comment)
- Rare Vasari painting restored to Hungary
- Giuliani Handed A Setback
- Web scam nets books worth UKP.100,000
- Fire At Historic Home Probed
- Deaccessioning and Disposal of Museums Collections
- Greeks defend visit to study Elgin Marbles
- Books of the Library of the Counts of Ortenburg (Bavaria) sold
November 4, 1999
USA District Court versus Brooklyn Institute of arts:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
--------------------------------------------------------x
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES,
Plaintiff,
V.
THE CITY OF NEW YORK and
RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, individually and
in his official capacity as Mayor of the City
of New York,
Defendants.
November 1, 1999
- Security of art works
- Stealing From the 'Cities of the Dead'; New Orleans Antiques Dealers Suspected in Cemetery Thefts
- Re: steps for public services staff to take if they observe a theft in process (Steve Keller)
- Museum permits Greeks to inspect Elgin Marbles
- Exhibit Was Heavily Financed by Those With Much to Gain
- Florentine treasure found in market is sold abroad
October 22, 1999
- Now on-line: 2000 NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
- Risk Practices Not State of The Art; U.K. museums face growing exposures, inadequate coverage, report warns
- Art question for murder mystery
- NEW UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL NOMINATED (Patrick Boylan)
- Fire Suppression Workshop Deadline Approaching
- Couple held in sale of artifacts
- Gathering policies re: Theft in Reading Rooms
October 21, 1999
- RE: Digital recording (Roger Wulff)
- RE: Digital recording (Pat Greeson)
- RE: Digital recording (William Plante)
- Query: Security Departments caught in the "visitor services" dilemma (Michelle Lehrman)
- Uniforms for security and safety personnel (thread at ISEN-ASTC-L)
- Reward Offered for First Lady's Ring (stolen from a Vermont museum during opening hours)
- Indian Artifact Thieves Caught
- Navajos Recover Sacred Artifacts From Looter
October 19, 1999
- query: digital recording
- Russia's monuments endangered by lack of funds
- Taiwan: cultural institutions suffer serious damages
- Emergency Power Requirements
- Stemming the Antiquities Flow (worldwide problem: the boom in the looting of ancient objects)
- The Right to Destroy Great Art, Scholar details the clash between private property values and public interest (book review)
October 16, 1999
- RE: Power Outages (William Heidecker)
- Tarnished Gold, U.S. Report Says G.I.'s Liberated, Then Looted Nazi Train Carrying Assets of Hungarian Jews
- stolen specimens Institute of Geological Sciences and Geiseltalmuseum of the Martin-Luther-University Halle in Germany
October 15, 1999
- Proposals (archaeological items offered)
- Re: sprinklers in the library (Steve Keller)
- RE: Food and Drinks (including water) in gallery (Brent Snider)
- Power Outages (Tammy Evans)
- Rare Ptolemy Book Found in Germany
October 13, 1999
- Re: Library sprinkler systems (Kathleen Coleridge)
- Re: Library sprinkler systems (William A. Heidecker)
- Minor listings of stolen & missing art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Clashes Over Italy Antiquity Plea
October 12, 1999
- Policing Plunder, Italy Requests U.S. Help in Stemming Loss of Its Antiquities
- Library sprinkler systems
- Fraud Collection
October 11, 1999
- Food and water in exhibit areas (Geoff Goodrich)
- Italian WWII treasures untraced (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Museum Salvage Teams (William Heidecker)
- American sues Hungary for art looted by Nazis
- construction of saferooms (Steve Keller)
- articles transferred in Adobe Acrobat format (Steve Keller)
- Thief strikes Hemingway exhibit
1999 Interpol conference on stolen art
October 7, 1999
- Interpol Conference on stolen art
- issues museums face when they discover the provenance of a piece of art in their collections is in dispute (Christa Kirby)
- Spiegelman arrested again
- New design Museum Security Website (Do send your comments)
- A future in Museum Security/Investigations?
- Artist Helps Nab Accused Gallery Robber, His Sketch of Suspect Leads to Swift Arrest
- Ancient art traffickers rob history for millions, Representatives from several Latin American countries met last week to tackle the growing problem.
October 3, 1999
- ART GALLERY GHOST `SEEN BY THREE GUARDS'
- Re: library security guidelines (Steve Keller)
- Re: library security guidelines (Everett C. Wilkie, Jr.)
- concern at the number of commercial organisations using the network to promote their products (Peter Gough); plus moderator's reply
- New Security For Portrait In New York Art Flap
- Controversial Art Attracts Hundreds (commotion = promotion)
- Princess Anne's treasures stolen from palace (spate of thefts from royal palaces in London over the past decade)
October 1, 1999
- Investigation underway into theft of antique books from Jagiellonian Library
- Museum Flood Damage in NC
- product information: "anti-snatch" picture alarm
- Senate Warns N.Y. Museum on Funds
- Sleuths Learn To Hunt Archaeological Criminals
September 29, 1999
- Re: Stolen Public Art; Jennifer Barrett (Richard J Viola)
- Mirage's Steve Wynn Buys Controversial Matisse Painting
- Museum Sues NYC Over Funding Cut
September 28, 1999
- Stolen Public Art (Jennifer Barrett)
- Newton's library sold to US in secret deal
- STOLEN' ART WORKS UP FOR SALE
- Guidelines for the Security of Rare Book, Manuscript, and other Special Collections
- Windsor Castle Fire Contained
- War, the pressures of tourism and Russian corruption are the most serious problems facing the world's greatest buildings and historic sites
- Beetles Destroy Gallery Carpet (gallery had to be shut down and two exhibits had to be taken apart)
- The race for riches; Under the sea, treasure hunters and scientists battle for history's bounty
September 25, 1999
- Re: Show Controversy (James Linza)
- N.Y. legislator wants tougher law on stolen art
- N.Y. Mayor Freezes Museum's Funds
- Art Thief Gets Nearly 17 Years
- 2 Rockwell Paintings Returned To Owners, FBI Still On Trail Of 3 Missing Paintings
September 24, 1999
- Painting's Return to Austria Barred (The move came hours after a state court said the painting could go back)
- Re: Donald Tagliatella's query about the newhouse case (Thomas Flynn)
- British art show is sick, says New York mayor (Giuliani says he'll work to cut funding to the museum unless the show is called off)
- Dali Portraits Attacked in Turkey, Art Attacker Hospitalized
- Dutch Museum Hopes To Quash Rumors (Frustrated at seeing so many works brushed off as bogus, Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum launched a pre-emptive strike Thursday)
September 23, 1999
- RE: Interpol CD and comments on rewards (Lyle Grindle, Gardner Museum)
- Interpol CD Rom, Interpol Washington supports putting the art database onto the Internet, which would be much more effective in disseminating information (Angela M. Meadows, Cultural Property Program Manager Interpol Washington)
- Bid to Bar Return of Paintings Fails
- sketches stolen from an art gallery almost 40 years ago have been recovered by police
- NY Gallery Owner in French Court; where is Christie's in all of this or have they "washed their hands" (Donald Taglialatella)
September 22, 1999
- Preserving Historic Buildings (William A. Heidecker)
- Court Rules on Museum Art's Return (New York's highest court ruled MOMA can return two paintings to Austria despite allegations that they had been stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners)
- Gallery Owner To Be Tried for Art (New York gallery owner will be tried by a French court for owning a work of art which was part of a famous Jewish family's collection looted by the Nazis in 1943)
- Sacred Objects Returned to Navajos, Items out of Tribal Hands for a Decade
- Re: Interpol CD (Steve Keller)
September 21, 1999
- query: stolen and forged Russian icons
- Re: Interpol CD (Patrice Cohen, Jouve)
- Re: Interpol CD (David Shilingford)
- Re: Interpol CD (Robin Rogers)
- Re: Interpol CD (Virginia M. Curry)
- Museum recovering from Floyd (Drayton Hall historic site)
- Re: Quick Poll, charge for checking bags (Joy Jackson)
- Junk shop 'Monet' may fetch UKP.1.1m on the Net
September 20, 1999
- query: Databases (Louise Hallett)
- product information: "ANTI SNATCH" ALARM
- Pompeii security consultant needs advice (Adalberto Biasiotti)
- Arts-Nepal: Stolen Artifacts Wind up in Western Museums
- Wear, tear disfigure museum's loaned art
- query: Anthony Van Dyck "Missing Paintings" (Martin Jeffery)
- Re: Interpol CD, Virginia M. Curry (Steve Keller)
- Re: Interpol CD (David Shillingford)
- Re: arrests Headley-Whitney museum theft (Steve Keller)
September 19, 1999
- Lowbrow art smugglers target a `hot' South Florida market : includes a list of items recovered between 1982 - 1999
September 18, 1999
- "Art, Law and the Holocaust", Symposium to be held at the Courtauld Institute London
- RE: re: Interpol Database (Virginia M. Curry)
- Police Question Man after a Stolen Gold Wreath Found Hidden in Garden
- 7 charged in thefts from cemeteries; 3 antiques dealers among suspects
- Killer Punished After eBay Sales (serial killer whose paintings were sold on the Internet auction site eBay has been punished with two years in solitary confinement and lost his art privileges for five years)
- Three Charged in '94 Museum Heist (Three Ohio men, including two already in prison, have been charged with stealing $1.6 million worth of artworks from a Kentucky museum five years ago)
September 17, 1999
- RE: Charge for checking bags (Stuart Park)
- Interpol database (Virginia M. Curry)
- re: comment Interpol CD (Patrick Boylan)
- Museums Booming All Over the U.S.(Economy fuels surge in construction)
- Workshop on disasters
September 16, 1999
- Quick Poll (charge for checking bags)
- Tesla Artifacts Disappear
- Re: Interpol stolen art CD: a giant step forward..... (Patrick Boylan)
- Museums and Insurance (Risk Practices Not State of The Art )
- information resources on disaster preparedness
- TV jeweller 'took UKP.20,000 Titanic watch from woman for UKP.35 work'
September 15, 1999
- The INTERPOL stolen art CD: A giant step in the right direction
September 15, 1999
- Jewish Heirs Sue Austria Over Art
- Corinth Museum Pieces Found in Fla.
- Disaster Recovery Sourcebook
- Contingency Planning for Storms (William Heidecker)
- Follow-up: frozen collections at Field Museum (Sally Shelton)
- MUSEUM SECURITY AND SAFETY (Tom Reitz)
- RE: nazi stolen art posting (Tom Dixon)
- RE: nazi stolen art posting (Antony Anderson)
- Re: Frederick Hart sculpture theft (Don Hrycyk LAPD Art Theft Detail)
September 13, 1999
- Texas school district scraps art visits over nudity (Fort Worth schools canceled class trips to museum after parental complaints about nudity and homosexuality in an exhibition of paintings by Francis Bacon)
- Gallery staff baffled after statue stolen (art gallery is offering a reward to anyone who can identify a wily thief who walked out of the store with a $36,000 sculpture)
- For Lawrence, a stolen trust (misguided ruling this week by Suffolk Superior Judge Margaret R. Hinkle)
- Quake Breaks Ancient Greek Pottery (Experts are struggling to identify thousands of tiny fragments and shards of ancient pottery broken and scattered around Greece's National Archaeological Museum by a strong earthquake that ripped through the capital earlier in the week)
- Phoney antiques are tracked across world (Sotheby's is conducting a worldwide investigation into the systematic sale of fake furniture at its London saleroom)
- Theft runs rampant in Mexico art world (Country says guarding its priceless treasures is proving too costly)
- Peru moves against artifact smugglers (The Peruvian government is fighting to secure its cultural heritage in the face of a growing international trade in stolen artifacts)
- Re: Nazi art posting (Earl Merkel)
- Re: Gallery staff baffled after statue stolen (Brent Luebke)
- messages about the Allegations of Nazi-looted Art by Patrick Vyvian and James Linza, and a statement by your moderator.
September 11, 1999
- RE: Nazi Paintings Posting (Christopher Atkins: 'absolutely ridiculous and I am appalled that you even posted it'), and moderator's reply
- IFCPP Announcement
- Smithsonian Given Historic Asian Art Trove (world class collection of ancient Chinese artifacts, which once filled a small apartment in New Jersey, has been donated to a premier Asian art museum in Washington)
- Russians rebuilding 'Amber Chamber' known as 'Eighth Wonder of the World'
- Buddha heads roll in theft from Cambodia's ancient temples
- Rembrandt Found After Reward Raised (Reward or ransom???)
- Rare Van Gogh steps on to the open market
September 10, 1999
- Petition: Court Library Donaueschingen
- Re: storage of collection of old records and recording tapes
- Students Sue Art Institute of Houston (Alleging they were defrauded by their school, 145 Houston-area students have brought suit against the Art Institute of Houston)
- Museums selling off some artifacts from ancient world (artifacts from ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece are just beginning to re-awaken in the antiques marketplace. Via auction houses, they are finding their way out of museums and into private collections)
- Stolen Art (hundreds of looted European paintings??
- Looking for a dot.........(and moderator's reply)
- Greek Sites Examined After Quake
September 8, 1999
- Treasures of ancient Rome plundered (Italian police have raised the alarm over the growing "looting and pillaging" of art and antiquities after the theft of a 2nd century marble pillar from the restored ruins of Hadrian's Villa, once the richest and most extensive of Roman imperial palaces)
- Re: Thieves steal medieval Koran
- Stolen art trade now rivals arms, drugs
- Museum Wins Battle Over Monet (an original Claude Monet and two works by Camille Pissarro that were willed to the blue-collar city of Lawrence cannot be sold to raise money for the city's cultural programs, a federal judge ruled Tuesday)
September 6, 1999
- Re: Stolen Cultural Items? (E-Bay and Peruvian artworks from Churches)
- Obituary William F. Anderson
- Polish art exhibition serves as reminder of treasures saved and lost
- Re: SEPTEMBER 5, 1999: Sotheby's sold fakes for years (Werner Hilklebrecht)
- Re: SEPTEMBER 5, 1999: Sotheby's sold fakes for years (Bob Jones III)
- Cons in jail - Rembrandt at Auction (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Egypt wants Rosetta Stone but does not expect to get it (In London, they are mounting a show to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the star exhibit in the British Museum. In Egypt, they are mourning the loss of the stone which revolutionized archaeology)
September 5, 1999
- Eccentric 'gentleman' thief jailed over UKP:2m art racket (a retired English teacher who found companionship in the criminal underworld began a jail sentence yesterday for his part in a UKP:2 million stolen art and antiques racket)
- Re: storage of old records and recording tapes (David Wexler)
- Seminar on disaster preparedness (The Massachusetts Cultural Resources Disaster Planning)
- Heirs sell art once looted by Nazis to casino mogul (When the Seattle Art Museum returned Henri Matisse's "Odalisque" to the family who lost it to the Nazis, one heir of collector Paul Rosenberg said she was happy "his children are finally coming home." Not for long)
- Spain opens global war on treasure hunters (SPAIN has launched a legal and diplomatic offensive to claim the thousands of wrecked Spanish galleons that lie undisturbed in seas across the world)
- Sotheby's sold fakes for years ( international auction house, has admitted selling fake furniture after a Sunday Times investigation established that it has been trading bogus antiques for years. The two most senior executives in the furniture department have already resigned)
September 4, 1999
- Munch's Madonna to be sold at auction (one of the greatest pieces of modern art, Edvard Munch's Madonna, will be auctioned for the first time since it was painted in 1895)
- Thieves steal medieval Koran (Authorities launched an international search Friday for a 15th century Koran stolen from Turkey's Topkapi Palace, alerting museums, galleries and collectors)
- Ex-Official Admits Thefts From UCLA (Head of publications, who resigned and apologized, pleads guilty to embezzling $475,000 to buy art, antiques)
- Owner of stately home loses paintings battle (the owner of a stately home who held a crisis sale of its contents last year to help pay his bills has been ordered to reinstate seven paintings on the grounds that they were fixtures and part of the house)
September 3, 1999
- Dealers hand over UKPounds:1m art to swindlers (some of the world's most respected dealers have been swindled out of paintings, prints and jewellery in an elaborate Italian-run art scam)
- ART THEFT in general declined in Italy last year, but the robbery of paintings and precious objects from churches has risen sharply
- Artful dodger spills beans (Confession at dinner party draws attention to disappearance of painting from Parliament; more on the theft of the Lichtenstein painting)
- Ancient Xi'an altar is found then buried for lack of funds (archaeologists in China's ancient capital have found the country's oldest Buddhist altar hidden between washing lines and a football pitch. However, after its excavation earlier this summer, the religious site has been reburied and may never be seen again)
- Re: storage of old records and recording tapes
- Looking for information! (painting may have come from a museum)
- Stolen artwork (suspect: Joseph Michael Killebrew)
- Jammers' Einsicht und Seligmanns Buecher
- Object ID 1999 update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- query: Stolen Art (Is there a data base for art that might have been stolen during the Cuban revolution when Castro took power?)
- Stolen Bells Reappear On Rectory Doorsteps (But man who says he bought them disappears)
- Cambodia museum hung up over bats in the belfry
September 1, 1999
- Belated thoughts on 'Thomas Crown Affair' (David Shillingford)
- Storage of Old Phonograph Records and Tapes (William Heidecker)
- History's Detectives Moving From the Field to the Lab (Ancient mysteries from the Titanic to Stonehenge yield their secrets to high-tech tools of space exploration, medicine, physics and 'common sense.' )
- ++Moderator's message++ (about additions to Museum Security website)
August 31, 1999
- In Venice, Art Transactions Mask Theft
- another arrested librarian (AN APPEAL FROM THE FRIENDS OF CUBAN LIBRARIES)
- Man held over pop art theft
- Historic SF bells silenced by thieves
- Re: marking rare books (Patrick Boylan)
- storage of collection of old records and recording tapes (Magdalena Morales)
August 27 - 28, 1999
- Re: Antiquities Dissertation (Andrew Cranwell)
- Raid on villa uncovers stolen art treasures (more on recovery Rembrandt painting in Denmark)
- http://www.iow.trace.co.uk/newsearch/jimhill_10.htm (August is holiday time for many in the insurance industry and antiques trade, but the villains aren't taking a break. As a homeowner or collector, you need to be particularly careful about security when you go away - and remember that garden statuary is especially at risk)
- Collectors or criminals? (After every major art heist, experts opine that there is no criminal mastermind amassing the world's greatest paintings in a Jamaican hideaway. In that case, say David Frohnsdorff and Andrew Cranwell of Southampton Institute, collectors ain't what they used to be...)
- ART-PROTECT Gmbh./ Alexander Triebold
- UL Listing for On-Off Automatic Sprinklers (William A. Heidecker)
- Peruvian artworks from Churches (Have you noticed the extremely expensive Peruvian religious icons (17th-18th cent) appearing on eBay in the last few days? Following hard on the heels of the thefts in Peru last year, this looks suspicious)
- Sparks Ignite Museum Fire (Firefighters in Saint Louis believe sparks from a welder's torch set off a smoky fire at the City Museum in downtown Saint Louis)
- Re: security installations Seattle (Steve Keller)
- An old master at copycat crimes ("Yesterday, this painting was worth millions of guilders and experts and art lovers would come from all over the world and pay money to see it. Today, it is worth nothing and nobody would cross the street to see it for free. But the picture has not changed. What has?")
August 25, 1999, part II
++moderator's request for information about ART-PROTECT++
- Saving Museum Artifacts From Fire Damage (William Heidecker: the removal of museum artifacts during a fire)
- Robert J. Allen Deputy Manager Protection Services Philadelphia Museum of Art would appreciate a phone call from some Curators and Security Department heads
- Sprinkler systems query
- Re: Future within the realm of forgeries & art theft detection / Susan Rose (Klaus Zimmermann, MICOT corporation)
August 24 and 25, 1999
- Theft of Treasures Booms in Ukraine (crimes are well prepared. Criminals have escape and sale venues ready, and the thefts often come on order. Antique thieves are assisted by lax security at museums and other poorly financed cultural institutions.)
- Up-coming Trip to Jordan (and new URL: Roger Wulff)
- specialized in the sale of early Museum of Modern Art monographs (Gary Kraidman)
- obituary: Leo Castelli
- Danish police recover stolen Rembrandt, Bellini (Two men were arrested)
- recommendations security installation for museums (Tonia Bothun)
- loan copies of Museum of Modern Art monographs, books, and catalogues to museums (Gary Kraidman)
- Symposium on preserving cultural heritage (sponsored by the Ohio Preservation Council and the State Library of Ohio, featuring two slide presentations and a workshop with Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian atthe University of Utah)
- Matisse estate wins payout (a landmark case over royalties which a British publishing house had refused to pay for seven years)
- query: future within the realm of forgeries and art theft detection (Susan Rose)
August 22, 1999
- Show me the Monet, Pissarros; Museum and mill town in court over paintings' custody controversy
- German Firm Gives Millions To Restore Amber Room (A German energy company has offered to pay $3.5 million to reconstruct one of Russia's most famous treasures, St. Petersburg's Amber Room, which was stolen by the Nazis during World War II and believed to have been destroyed.)
- Automatic security at Egyptian Museum
- From the quake ruins, Assisi art treasures (IN ADDITION to an excellent climate, picturesque landscapes and at least a nominal devotion to the patron saint of pets and the poor, the cities of San Francisco and Assisi also share an unfortunate tendency toward earthquakes.)
- Former UCLA Official Convicted of Stealing and Selling Painting (The former director of student counseling at UCLA was convicted in federal court Friday of stealing a 19th century oil painting from the university and selling it to a New York art gallery for $200,000.)
- Lowell museum director 'downsizes' himself, happily
August 20, 1999
- Art protect (David Shillingford)
- screenplay on the subject of Nazi stolen art
- Ex-UCLA Official Goes on Trial in Theft of Painting
- Nepal gets back smuggled ancient sculptures
- Looters Threaten Peru's Ancient Treasures
- Japan's fiscal woes force secret sales of famous artworks
- Jewish lawyers enter Nazi-looted art fray
August 18, 1999
- Thieves lift Raoul Dufy artworks from gallery
- Need Info in Washington DC (Kevin Purpgoof)
- introduction of art-protect
- MUSEUM SECURITY CALLED A FINE ART (Met's Harold Holcer and A.L.R.'s Anna Kisluk opinions)
August 15, 1999
- APPEAL FROM YUGOSLAV CULTURAL PROTECTION EXPERTS TO BERNARD KOUCHNER
- Rainstorms soak valuable Dutch book collection
- Hunt for Nazi looted art in British messes
- Auction houses take hammering as art dries up
- Cartoon Theft No Laughing Matter
- Sotheby's chiefs quit in 'fakes' row
- Background to the Denney Case
- CCAHA Disaster Mitigation Workshop Series
- Massachusetts museums battle over Monet
August 13, 1999
- UPDATED INFORMATION ON RECENT ORTHODOX CHURCH DESTRUCTION AND DAMAGE IN EX-YUGOSLAVIA (Peter Boylan)
- Tiffany glass expert found guilty in window theft
- Artist found guilty in fraud case (Painter is facing 13-year sentence)
- 'Thomas Crown Affair' is taut and colorful (Metropolitan museum wouldn't cooperate with a movie that builds entire scenes around bad antitheft systems)
August 12, 1999
- RE: Breast-feeding in collection areas (Brent Snider)
- Trans Art International (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- CHIEF OF SECURITY POSITION, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE
- THE DESKBOOK OF ART LAW
- Mongolian dinosaur thefts
- FW: artcom (Antony Anderson)
August 10, 1999
- RE: THE LOST MASTERS, the looting of Europe's treasurehouses (James Austin)
- Israel Antiquities Authority (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- UNAUTHORIZED EAST JERUSALEM ANTIQUITIES DEALER CAUGHT IN POSSESSION OF RARE COIN FROM PERIOD OF BAR-KOKHBA REVOLT
- Thieves Steal Dutch Paintings (De Momper, Van Ostade, Van Mieris a.o.'s)
- Couple charged in antique-theft scheme
- GUATEMALA RECOVERS 1,000 YEAR-OLD MAYAN STONE FIGURE
- Clergy put on alert after thieves target churches
- Ukraine Could Repatriate Lost CPE Bach Scores To Germany
- Museums urged to run for cover
- Dutch treat (Rembrandt etchings found)
August 6, 1999
- The Art of Alarms (Security Management magazine and an article on museum security in an upcoming issue)
- Tibetan art dealer arrested in attempt to stop relics theft
- FORGERIES, A LONG HISTORY
- Artifacts Illegally Removed
- Concentration camp memorial artist is used to having his work
- News from CPSC - Fire Sprinkler Recall
- Stolen Mayan Artifact Returned
- Antiques dealer 'bought item from grave robber'
- Van Gogh Drawing Returned to Heir
- The Theft From The Louvre of the Diamond Sword of Charles X
- U.S. vs an Antique Platter of Gold (Claire Lyons)
- RE: Omega Sprinkers (William Heidecker)
- fire protection articles
- Breast-Feeding Bill Considered (at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, a guard told mother to stop breast-feeding her child or leave.)
- Parole denied for figure in art theft (Isabella Stewart Gardner heist)
August 2, 1999
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Suspicious fire destroys historic church
- Re: [balkans] Croatian museum stripped of its art treasures (Bojan Indjic)
- Re: disaster preparedness plans (Dorit Straus)
- security systems in Turkey (Turan Dincer)
August 2, 1999
- Collections Database
- Disaster Preparedness Plans
- UKPounds: 20m debt may shut Armouries
- Mystery Van Gogh subject of international search
- Tate faces claim for Nazi art loot (Jewish family says Old Master was stolen from them)
- Master (Con) Artist; Painting forger Elmyr de Hory's copies are like the real thing
- Philippine Star news: dinosaur eggs stolen (Sally Shelton)
- Re: Mystery Van Gogh subject of international search (Missing van Gogh sold to U.S. buyer)
- Director of Security Position opening (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Tories call for inquiry into Armouries Museum debt
- Coolidge Ring Stolen
- Croatian museum stripped of its art treasures (Boston Globe)
- Police find lost Dali (picture was on the FBI's list of missing art works)
July 29, 1999
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Ron Lander)
- Elgin marbles 'staying'
- Wildenstein art collectors sued in New York
- Insurance claims and accessioned objects
- Omega Sprinklers (Roxana Adams)
- IFCPP Progress Report
- Vandals attack Nazi death camp memorial in Germany
- Thieves strip remote Lorna Doone church
July 27, 1999
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Werner Hillebrecht)
- RE: Art Inventory Software (Pamela Scoville)
- RE: A van Gogh went; The missing $82 million painting (Connie Lowenthal)
- Art Theft in the Movies - The Thomas Crown Affair (fiction) (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fwd: Fire damages 3 historic buildings in San Angelo, Texas
- Colditz Escape Museum & Castle (Antony Anderson)
- Postings of Stolen Antiquities (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Plan to return the Elgin Marbles
- Egypt split over Rosetta Stone celebrations
July 26, 1999
- RE: 'Count' steals art worth millions (Patrick Vyvyan)
- Re: Control Room Security (Henry Homrighaus Jr.)
- IFCPP (Steve Layne)
- Trojan Gold Will Remain in Russia
- http://www.museum-security.org/balkans (Jadran Kale)
- Stolen Korean ceramics found (Soeren M. Chr. Bisgaard)
- Looted Nazi painting turns up in Israel
- Museum 'will return stolen oil painting'
- Spain's Prado reopens Velazquez rooms after leaks
- Art Inventory Software (R.Rogers)
- A van Gogh went; The missing $82 million painting
July 21, 1999
- Moderator's message: Continuation of the Museum Security:
Mailinglist and Website garanteed for at least two more years!
- Numismatic theft - Stolen Coins (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- query: painting sensors (Ricky Bush)
- Lyon library fire website
- query: info on security control room security and operations (Rahman B. Saladdin)
- RE: security devices for paintings
- A 20th-Century Master Scam (The Myatt/Drewe case)
- 'Count' steals art worth millions
- Los Angeles eye doctor guilty of art theft fraud
- Russian Court Knocks Down Art Law
July 16, 1999
- Rembrandt Stolen from French Museum
- Risk assessment
- New York agency obtains return of Holocaust art
- Thieves are plundering rare and valuable cultural pieces, and institutions are powerless to stop them (S.A.)
- online most wanted, list of stolen, lost, looted or censored works of art from around the world
( http://www.artresources.com/departments/hot.sheet/)
- Disaster plans
July 11, 1999
- Interpol launches CD-ROM of stolen art works
- S.Korea confiscates 'Picasso' after alleged theft
- LA doctor had him steal Picasso, Monet -witness
- Rothschild art auction smashes records
- Russia catalogs artwork lost by Nazi looting during war years
- Looters take millions in Afghan treasures
- Faberge Eggs - "A nice Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- query: researching famous and/or peculiar art thefts throughout history
July 9, 1999
- Thais crack down on unscrupulous antique dealers
- Trial opens for L.A. doctor accused in art theft
- Sri Lanka restores blasted Buddhist shrine
- Hurricane Mitch Uncovers Honduras Historic Remains
- Disclosure of Museum Security Arrangements (Peter Orborne)
- Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect Steven Holl to design addition
- Minneapolis Gallery Owner's 21-Year Quest for Stolen Paintings Ends With Recovery in Rio MINNEAPOLIS
- Book stolen by Nazis sells for UKPounds:8m
- Stonehenge treasures decay for lack of cash
- Marble cracks on Pisa tower
July 6, 1999
- Re: search for eight missing Faberge eggs (Steve Keller)
- Tax rule forces owners to put art on display
- Arson damage to art, gallery totals $200,000 (Automatic sprinklers put out the flames but not before they ruin all but the most costly porcelains)
- Treasures take a beating in Parliament
- New Whodunit-Style Cairo Exhibit to Trace Stolen, Recovered Treasure Heritage
- Stolen Sculptures Found Buried In Santa Fe Yard
- Kosovo Library Ban Lifted
- 10,000 Mexican Artifacts Recovered
- Return all our stolen works of art first, Russia tells Germany
July 3, 1999
- After Global Search, FBI Finds Stolen T.Rex Jawbone
- Official in Ruby Ridge siege to track stolen artwork
- Original key to the Bastille stolen from Sydney wax museum
- Rothschilds to sell art Nazis looted
July 2, 1999
- re: Library fire in France ( Fotinie Efstratiadou-Wisner)
- Austrian Decision Ends Hopes for Restitution on Klimt Works
- http://www.jouve-diffusion.com/ (Interpol CD-Rom Stolen Art Works)
- No Yolk ... the Hunt is On for Missing Faberge Eggs
- Ancient Greek Wreath Disappears
- Arrests made in Calgary theft-to-order scheme
- Ex-FBI agent asks inmate for help on Gardner artwork
June 29, 1999
- Library fire in France
- More on police auction blunder (Jason Kaufman)
- Britain helps kill EU proposal for levy on art sales
- FBI's National Stolen Art File - New URL (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Another Julian Alden Weir Theft (More paintings pilfered from Cooper Inn)
June 25, 1999
- RE: query about ownership after art theft (David Shillingford)
- Switzerland - Zürich Police Stolen Art Web Site (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Protecfire & Securitec Lebanon 99
- Artist loses life's work in blaze at studio 'shrine'
- Vietnamese Military Artwork Pulled From Exhibit
- Spaniards looted British art hoard (1778)
June 24, 1999
- Re: Sotheby's - Amazon and online database of stolen art
- Holocaust Art Restitution Project Announces Its Involvement in the Restitution of Four Works Plundered by Nazis
- Woman Pleads Not Guilty in UCLA Art Theft
- query about ownership after art theft
- Re: query about Legal sale of stolen art works (Jason Kaufman)
- Re: query about Legal sale of stolen art works (Patrick Vyvyan)
- How Mussolini park ruined frescoes of Nero's palace
- Thailand ready to return looted Cambodia carvings
- U.S. Writer (Hector Feliciano) Wins WWII Art Suit
June 22, 1999
- Tools for researching major art works (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- RE: FM200 Fire Suppressant (David Wexler)
- RE: FM200 Fire Suppressant (Jack Watts)
- Britain ready to thwart EU plans for art sales levy
- Ancient Kosovo bazaar reduced to ashes
- product information: EIDETIC art identification system
- Vandals Target Olympic Museum After Sion Lose Bid
- (another motive to make haste with online presence of stolen art database?? T.C.):
Art dealers' new opportunity; Amazon-Sotheby's deal will go beyond niche
- Four ancient Cambodian temples pillaged
June 21, 1999
- SAM to Return Matisse Odalisque to Rosenbergs (official press release by Seattle Art Museum)
- Vandalism in Donaueschingen
- Holocaust Victims Can Recover Art
- French Grotto Discoverer Loses Lawsuit
- British Collector Gives Away Art Worth $40 Million (because he cannot afford to insure the works and is afraid they will be stolen)
- Czech Government to Restore to Jewish Museum 67 Paintings Nationalised by Communists
June 20, 1999
- 350 000 ouvrages detruit a Lyon (in French)
- Two Munch paintings requested for exhibition in Chemnitz, Germany
- Theft of two J. Alden Weir paintings
- IFCPP News
- International Seminar on Art and Antique Theft
- query: Miro drawing
- MOMA and Kazimir Malevich heirs
- New Fax Number David Shillingford
- RE: disturbed visitors
- query: Art falsification
- FM200 Fire suppressant
- Masked Gunmen Rob Babe Ruth Museum
- The Louvre to return looted Tiepolo painting
- U.S. to Fight Smuggling of Nicaraguan Treasures
- Michelangelo Crucifix Return Home
- Thieves Return Sacred Mohammed Relic
June 19, 1999
Interpol CD-ROM 'STOLEN WORKS OF ART'
June 5, 1999
- Prado Museum's Art Survives Fire
- Famous 19th Century Art Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Ex-Kenner museum chief charged in theft
- info needed (Association for Gravestone Studies)
- Old Master does not herald the high life
- Wealthy Austrian family claims Albright's father stole paintings
- Figure in art-theft case faces tax charge
- ATB says Pocklington has no claim on paintings
- Museum loses claim for blanket (Court rules Denver staff failed to prove it owned $430,000 Navajo art missing since 1970)
- German gallery hands over Van Gogh from Jewish sale
June 3, 1999
- Peer fights planners over art sale ban
- Aboriginal artist names origins of forgeries
(The scandal lies in our double standards)
- Russian court starts hearings on stolen art law
- It's curtains for estate vandals
- Holocaust widow set to win back UKP.3m painting; a breakthrough over Nazi loot
June 2, 1999
THE PRICE OF AGE
Dissertation about the trade in stolen antiquities by Andrew Cranwell
May 30, 1999
- Apologies to all North Carolinians (Steve Keller)
- `Red-hot' fire devours century-old building
- Art fraudster accused of French fakes
- Italy's Uffizi closed briefly in hoax bomb scare
May 29, 1999
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fire Damage Surpasses $1-Million
- Kosovo art looting (Martin Mullin)
- DEVELOPMENTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY Ex-UCLA Official Charged in Theft of Oil Painting
- RUSSIAN LAW ON "TROPHY ART" REMOVED BY SOVIET TROOPS DURING AND AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II
May 28, 1999
- Disturbed visitors (Anne Douglas)
- RE: Disturbed visitors (Steve Keller)
- Reward Offered In Art Theft
- Mummy stolen in '20s is returned to cave in Philippines
- a security consultant's visit of historic houses in Maryland and Virginia (Steve Keller)
- Interesting consulting plan by MSN subscriber (Pre-Paid Security Consulting Plan)
- Lost and found treasures of Egypt
May 26, 1999
- The Lost Art of Kosovo, a Casualty of War; On a Less Visible Front, Serbs Continue Assault on Culture & Creativity
- Stolen art from York (UK) found (Dave Taylor)
- Re: alarm systems and their shortcomings (messages by: Steve Keller, Jon Speck, Sarah Tuttle, and Kevin Murszewsk
May 24, 1999
- Arttheft in museums (Boaz Weiss)
- RE: Alarm Systems (Ron Lander)
- Company listing on the Museum Security Network (DSI)
- Restoration of da Vinci's Last Supper 'an affront to art lovers'
- Tiffany arrest lifts lid on tomb-raiders' trade
- KOSOVO: FIRST REPORTS OF MUSEUM/GALLERY/VISUAL ARTS ATTACKS (Patrick Boylan)
May 22, 1999
- Stockholm's Modern Museum puzzled by claims art student urinated in Marcel Duchamp's pissoirs
- Reward Offered For Stolen Vase
- alarm systems and their shortcomings
- Paris museum workers shut down attractions for third day
May 21, 1999
- colection of links related to theft of artifacts composed by Jonathan Sazonoff
- Kosovar Intellectual Tortured and his House Looted
- NEW 2ND PROTOCOL TO HAGUE CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF ARMED CONFLICT SIGNED
- Den Bosch Netherlands - Van Gogh Theft
- Paris museums closed by strikes over staff levels
- RECOVERING STOLEN ART A Web Site and Magazine Work to Keep Art Out of the Hands of Thieves
May 19, 1999
- query: data on the extent of illegal trade in art in the UK, Italy and generally in Europe
- Destruction of Libraries: COFA, Sydney
- Italy art crime booms in borderless Europe
- Slander trial may give clues to art Nazis stole
- discovery of letter from artist Colin McCahon asking that Storm Warning not be sold to a private collector came too late, Victoria University says
- What do you do with a stolen beetle?
- Van Gogh painting stolen from bank office
- YORK, UK, ART GALLERY THEFT PAINTINGS RECOVERED AND TWO MEN CHARGED
- Cross index to ICMS publications (David Liston)
- Tiffany glass expert indicted in window theft
- Amsterdam's Picasso knifeman could be serial vandal
- Vulnerability of art underscored by Picasso damage in Amsterdam
May 12, 1999
- query: security management course for museums (Silvia Valente)
- Key Control procedures (David Tremain)
- security, types of training (Doug Lantry)
- May Update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- English version of the Study of Public's Behavior at Museums, carried out by the Security Department of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Francisco de la Fuente)
- Sevso treasure dispute settled (Times of London)
- Stolen books
- RE: Y2K Problems (Edward Mayer)
- News for the Museum Security Network 5/10/99 (Steve Keller)
- Wealthy Austrian family claims Albright's father stole paintings
- Hiroshima survivor fights to protect N.Korea tombs
- K. Rouge leader's loot trucked to safety
- French Art Dealer Sues Writer (Hector Feliciano) for Slander
May 5, 1999
- Due Diligence (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Key Control Procedures (Ron Lander)
- Finance and Funding (Sally Shelton)
- IFCPP Update (Steve Layne)
- Year 2000 problem (William Real)
- Workshop on disasters (Julie Page)
- MUTEC Exhibition in Munich, 15 ... 18 June 99 (Henry Berner)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Globe Ship Burns
- http://www.pixi.com/~hicatt/index.html The Great Dali Art Fraud
May 4, 1999
- Hudson's Bay Archives moving (David Armstrong)
- When St. Catherine fell into Nazi hands
- Glass treasures bought from a tomb plunderer
- "Entrapment" (Steve Keller)
April 30, 1999
- Clarification Date (Alan Miller)
- 1954 Hague Convention (John Piper)
- Dali's 'capitaine' arrested in case of the 10,000 fakes
- 13-year-old bids $3.1 million in Internet auction
- Looted Monet returned (Times of London, April 30, 1999)
April 28, 1999
- Dry pipe into wet pipe sprinkler system?
- Y2K Answer ...& Seminar (Ron lander)
- Copyright Decision (Petty Gerstenblith)
- Re: Maintenance of sprinkler systems (Steve Keller)
- Re: y2k (Steve Keller)
- [MR-Liste] News of Culture from Museums of Russia
- TURKEY RECOVERS MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS ARTIFACT SURRENDERED BY LONDON ART DEALER TO UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
- Spain questions former Dali aide over art forgery
April 24, 1999
- appeal against bombing culturel heritage (Vesna Marjanovic)
- re: IFCPP conference (Ronald Eygendaal)
- Y2K and museums (Gay C Bindocci)
- Maintenance of sprinkler systems (Nancy Weaver)
- Copyright in images - Bridgeman v Corel (Stuart Park)
- Stolen Paintings Returned 21 Years Later; Gallery Owner Welcomes Stolen Norman Rockwell Paintings Back Home (A.P.)
- Owners hang back on fake art (The Australian)
April 22, 1999
- IFCPP Conference (Steve Layne)
- Colorado Tragedy (Steve Layne)
April 21, 1999
- 2ND PROTOCOL DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE
- A question of authenticity (Daniel Rosenfeld)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Historic House Fire - Snedens Landing, NY
- S.T.O.P. & Farewell to the Getty Info Institute (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- 2nd Museum Security Technique Congress. 1999
- Canada returns smuggled ancient mosaics to Syria
- French auctions 'inflating bids'
- Gettysburg National Military Park Makes "10 Most Endangered Parks" List
April 19, 1999
- Moderator's message (please read)
- KORBEL/ALBRIGHT/HARMER
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Discovery Channel
- Russian Art Theft - Perov Posting (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Martin Bucer: whereabouts of lost MS?
- Farmer Gets Death Sentence For Stealing Buddha Statue
- A Surreal Deal
- CULTURAL PROTECTION IN WAR - WAS: Kosovo's historic sites (Patrick Boylan)
April 19, 1999
ICBS Appeal for the protection of Cultural Heritage in Yugoslavia
April 18, 1999
- The Quest For the Right Tool ( Jim Holley)
- Re: information about damaged cultural property (Susan Wallis)
- the Serb Appeal published (Jadran Kale)
- http://www.artinsure.com/" ARTINSURE
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: System installs in historic bldgs
- Ethiopians urge Britain to return looted treasure
- Museum Curator Is History - (JACKSONVILLE) --
- query about obligation to restore paintings
- LIST OF ENDANGERED CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE (another message from Yugoslavia)
- Library Security Guard Killed in Shooting Was to Retire in June
April 14, 1999
Re: information about damaged cultural property in Yugoslavia
April 13, 1999
information about damaged cultural property in Yugoslavia
April 12, 1999
- Looted Art To Be Auctioned
- International Conference on Cultural Property and Patrimony
- Artwork stolen 20 years ago going to Worcester museum
- Looters strip Cambodia of its art (Sunday Times of London)
- Sculptor vanishes after making a fine art of borrowing money
- building of the National Museum in Leskovac suffers serious material damage (Borislav Surdic)
April 11, 1999
- Thieves plunder Russian museums to order (Times of London)
- International Foudation for Cultural Property Protection annual conference
- 2nd Protocol to 1954 Hague Convention, adopted 26 March 1999
Final text adopted. Subject to verification.
text is available online at:
http://www.museum-security.org/hague-convention-99.html
April 8, 1999
- SPNHC99 Annual Meeting
- theft of a priceless Chihuly vase from the Delaware Art Museum
- Adolf Hitler "walks" out of museum
April 7, 1999
- Armed robbers steal Russian paintings
- Venice Mayor Indicted in Opera Fire
- Heritage police to guard SA's riches; a new bill says national treasures must stay in the country.
- German Stolen Art - Listings on line (Jonathan Sazonoff)
April 6, 1999
RE: Museum of Vojvodina alert
April 5, 1999
- The first information about damages on the building Museum of Voivodina at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
- Picasso Thefts - "Dora Maar"
- At Antiques Fairs, History Stolen; Md. Man Is Charged With Larceny; FBI Affidavit Tells of East Coast Operation
- Re: ELGIN MARBLES (once again....)
- Witness in theft of art breaks her probation
April 2, 1999
Return these exiles to Greece (Elgin Marbles)
April 1, 1999
- Automated Doors for Disabled Access (Bob Combs)
- Fire suppression systems for Prints and Drawings department (Margo McFarland)
- Florentine nobility are cleared on art sales
- Prosecutors eye `philanthropist' Moawad
- Portuguese museums plan Easter strike
March 31, 1999
- Man pleads guilty to carving up abstract painting
- Archaeology's Chief Critic Digs In His Heels; Latest Salvo Hits Establishment For Stand on Antiquities Dealers (stirring up dust again with provocative proposals for combating the problem of widespread looting of archaeological sites)
- Woman attacked at museum sleepover; Police charge guard with sexual assault
March 29, 1999
MAJOR NEW TREATY ON PROTECTING CULTURAL PROPERTY IN TIMES OF ARMED CONFLICT ADOPTED IN THE HAGUE, 26 MARCH 1999
March 29, 1999
- THE END OF CCTV PUZZLES (??)
- Cultural Property Update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Art Law: Holding the Bag: Stolen Art and Museums
- Art, Antiques, Fruits of Crime, Laundering etc.
- Police appeal for help in art fraud
- Albright in the firing line over family's lost treasure
March 25, 1999
- guidelines for library security
- re: meteorite reports (Jack Murphy)
- Re: meteorite theft (Steve Keller)
- Insurers provide peace of mind for pieces of art
- Rembrandt export blocked
- museum jobs in Seattle, WA (Alisha Alderson)
- New Strategies for Regional Disaster mitigation and Response A preservation conference presented by SOLINET
- Photographer sues art gallery for copying his pictures
- Painting ownership talks break down; judge sets trial date
- MUSEUM ANTIQUE THIEF HUNTED
March 22, 1999
- New chapter: WW.II and looted art
- ENIGMA
- RE: Stolen meteorites (Mark Miano)
- "Protecfire & Securitec Lebanon 99"
- Re: Geological specimen theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
March 19, 1999
- Hague Convention
- Settlement reached over Pissarro painting
- Stolen meteorites (Jessica Striebel jessica@ecotarium.org)
- Help recover missing pieces of Triptych of Johannes Matthaus Koelz
- MUSEUM-L IN SPANISH
March 17, 1999
- Six-Year Old Sends Artwork Crashing To the Ground
- Rare historic book (stolen last week) recovered from Canada trash can
- Disputed art to stay in New York MOMA during probe
- 3 arrested in Rembrandt theft
- re. cash machines in museums (Nancy Jackson)
- re. cash machines in museums (Bob Combs)
- Another Movie on Art Theft, alert for NY Museums (Steve Keller)
March 16, 1999
- L.A. conferences on Museum Security and Cultural Property Protection
- Two new pages have been added to the Museum Security Website
- Police Departments & Stolen Art
- cash machines in museums
March 14, 1999
- Major Art Theft! (Ton Cremers)
- Indiana Jones and the temple of 'stolen' relics (Daily Telegraph London)
- National Cultural Property Conference (A Response To Art Theft) (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- La Fenice may finally be rising from ashes (Daily Telegraph London)
- RE: Intrusion detection techniques (Bob Combs)
- RE: Intrusion detection techniques (Steve Keller)
- RE: Intrusion detection techniques (Les Biggs)
- Union Pacific Railroad is missing 4 painted panels that once adorned President Lincoln's railcar
- Thieves Steal Art From Peru Church
March 5, 1999
- vandalized art work (Lori Beth Malinoski)
- Security Measures for Show (Paul Smith)
- Collecting "illicit" material (Tim McShane)
- In London, Masterpieces Plundered by Nazis May Be on Display
- French police bust chateaux-looting gang
- Artist denounces State gallery fakes (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Ming treasure vanishes for a second time
- TURKEY'S LAWSUIT AGAINST AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN ENDS WITH AGREEMENT TO RETURN RARE ANCIENT COINS TO TURKEY
- Re: Asst. Student Positions (Margaret Schroeder)
March 3, 1999
- re: Backpacks (Tim Szczepanski)
- Re: guidedogs in training--clarificaiton (Tim Gette)
- Galleries to seek out Nazi plunder (Daily Telegraph London)
- Art trade hopes codes will cut crime (Times of London)
- RE: Nazis war loot in Japan (Kunihiro Yamamoto)
- Support MSN in LA (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Shift Coverage (Lloyd W. Padgett)
- Our site Stolen art in Belgium (Guy Campo)
- Assistant Security Supervisor Position (Joyce Cummins)
March 1, 1999
- Re: guidedogs in training (Steve Keller)
- Re: guidedogs in training (Ernest C. Lipple)
- Re: Illicit Materials (Simon Clark)
- Re: Illicit Materials - VALUABLE ARTEFACT "NEEDED" (Patrick Boylan)
February 27, 1999
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks; Bag and parcel inspections, and rules (David Liston)
- Re: Illicit Materials (Claudia Nicholson)
- Untrained guidedogs in Museum (Tim Gette)
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks (Elizabeth Fuller)
- Aboriginal artist finds 20 more fake paintings (The Australian)
- query: Union Employees (Kevin Purpgoof)
February 26, 1999
statement by The Louvre (please read)
- Re: earthquake safety (Harry Needham)
- French Get Nazi Art Out Fast, Critic Says (French diplomats shipped two paintings from their United Nations mission back to Paris after complaints they were displaying art that had been plundered by the Nazis.)
- identifying individual rare stamps (David Clumpner)
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks (Steve Keller)
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks (David Armstrong)
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks (Anne Wheeler)
- RE: Checking handbags and backpacks (Ton Cremers)
February 25, 1999
- Louvre admits museum is 'easier to rob than a store' (Times of London)
- Checking bags and backpacks....( Alan Voss)
- Question of ownership taints MFA painting Case spotlights moral, legal issues (Walter Robinson)
February 24, 1999
- re:Photography in grounds (Trevor Reynolds)
- Institution protection responsibilities (David Liston)
- The Louvre says it needs $25 million for security upgrades
- art law (Kimberly Moore)
- security in an open air museum
- Visitors Conduct Study (Francisco de la Fuente)
- Uncovering what the Nazis stole: Expert describes efforts to find artwork taken during war
- Police recapture thief who stole ``The Scream''
February 22, 1999
- re: Cemetery thefts (John Finnegan)
- Dealers - who don`t deal - II (Jan Henriksen)
- Kosovo talks site houses looted art
- African artifact thefts (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Art Law - Distance Learning - Foundation Certificate
- ART ATTACK (The Why Files: Can science help solve art crime?)
- Lost Raphael seized during Mafia 'sting' (Richard Owen reports on how a mission to unmask nuclear merchants yielded a Renaissance masterpiece )
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Perth Amboy Fire
- RE: important elements of a good post order (Steve Keller)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Italian Castle Burns Again
- Slovenija's stolen art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- "Protecfire Securitec Lebanon 99"
- Re: Post Orders (Ross Brand)
- Policy on Use of Grounds (Dave Mitchell)
- professional photography policy question (Larry Rankine)
- Reply Grounds Photography (Brent Snider)
- Post Orders aren't just for security officers (David Liston)
February 17, 1999
- Conman is given six years in jail for UKP: 1m art fraud
- Antiques dealers in grave thefts inquiry
- query: Post Orders (Tamara Evans)
- Re: Anybody on the list who has more information? (Mark Corcoran)
February 16, 1999
- FIRE EXTINGUISHERS (John Saidi)
- WWII / Holocaust (Stolen Art Resources; Jonathan Sazonoff)
February 13, 1999
- modern art conman of the century
- advertising on the newsgroup (Steve Keller)
- re: advertising on the newsgroup (Ton Cremers)
- Looted Art In French Presidential Palace
February 11, 1999, part II
- Review of Stolen Art on the Web
- Re:Fire Extinguishers (James Barnhart)
- Re: Security Training Manuals (Roger Wulff)
- Posting inquiry for information (Scott E. Smith)
- Paris museum has proof cubist painting looted by Nazis from Jewish collector
- Austria Returns Looted Art To Rothschild Heirs
- Man who stole The Scream escapes on airport trip
February 11, 1999
- re: Security clips for paintings on display (Tom Dixon)
- $50,000 Reward Offered in Rembrandt Theft
- re: Security clips for paintings on display (Jon Speck)
- Re: Security clips for paintings on display (Jamie Hascall)
- Nazi-looted art returned to heirs
- Thailand to send priceless Cambodia artefacts home
- Fire Extinguishers (Tamara Evens)
February 9, 1999
- Three Men Sentenced in Art Robbery
- UK Art Theft (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Hammer set to come down on misleading auction labels
- Identification and authentication
- Moderator's message
- Export tariff in Italy?? (Amy Hicks)
- seminar sponsored by the Government of Taiwan (Dorit Straus)
- re: Identification & authentication (Klaus Zimmermann)
- security clips for paintings (Miles BINGHAM)
February 5, 1999
- Security Goals & "Value Added" (Ernest C. Lipple)
- Greeks ask France to return famed statue
- Hague Convention (James Druzik)
- I just had a disaster with my collection ... what should I do? (T.Patrick Brennan)
February 4, 1999
- Manuals as "Works in progress" (Steve Keller)
- re: presentation for upcoming security conference (Paul Rodriguez)
- University Library collection being sold off (forwarded by Clifford Scheiner)
- Danish theft - Rembrandt & Bellini (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- WWII looting of Asian art (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Getty Museum returns three works of art to Italy after determining they were stolen
February 3, 1999
- Mexican Police Recover Stolen Art
- Value added services (re: presentation for upcoming security conference)
- Re: presentation for upcoming security conference (Roger Wulff)
- Re: presentation for upcoming security conference (Kevin Purpgoof)
- request for information (Sherin Bahaa)
- Court will try to determine painting's owner
- More stolen art on the web (Jonathan Sazonoff)
January 31, 1999
- Gunmen carefully select, then steal Tamayo art from Mexican gallery (ROBO DE DOCE CUADROS DE RUFINO TAMAYO EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO)
- Exposed: auctioneers value new goods as antique; Auction men take repro antiques at face value (Times of London)
January 30, 1999
- management of security in general and security schedules (Anonymous)
- Pollock Art Vandal in Rome Hospital
- RE: (Fwd) I need hard facts!!! (Ron Simoncini)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Church Fire in Brazil
- London Holocaust Conference (Thomas Flynn)
- RE: (Fwd) I need hard facts!!! (Gary Yee)
- problems with Medeco InSite Key System
- Innovative Programs to Enhance the Image of Your Security Department (Herb Lottier)
- RE: (Fwd) I need hard facts!!! (Jim Holley)
- Cambodian temples stripped of treasures
- Rembrandt Stolen From Danish Museum (Guard knocked down)
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of African artifacts are missing from the Buffalo Museum of Science
- Provo Cops Look For Art Thieves
January 28, 1999
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
January 27, 1999
- Raiders grab UKP: 2m art and UKP: 20 for getaway petrol, latest information plus some similar incidents from the MSN archive
- Television & Stolen Art
- Art Crime incidents
- Halon alternatives
- priorities I usually assign to protection evaluations with cultural properties (Steve Layne)
- Lawyer Charged In Monet, Picasso Insurance Case
- Man scribbles on Pollock painting in Rome
- UNESCO studies return of stolen art
- Old church destroyed by fire
- Net fraud probe over sports memorabila
- RFI: laws, permits, and museums (Sally Shelton)
- I need hard facts!!!
January 24, 1999
- National Conference and hotel costs (Steve Keller)
- Chateaux sound the alarm as thefts soar
- Jewish group attacks France over disputed art
- Art dealer pleads guilty to mail fraud in sale of school paintings
- query: return of aboriginal artefacts
- query: room where some relics can be stored
- Re: aboriginal artefacts
- French auctioneer sues over Van Gogh ``fake'' charge
- Cambodia races to save ancient treasures
- Press Release: formation of the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection (IFCPP)
- Seeking Your Opinions
- Lawyer charged in Monet, Picasso insurance case
- China Executes Farmer for Stealing
- Spanish Civil Guard - Art Recoveries (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- ARMED ROBBERY AT UK REGIONAL ART MUSEUM
- Cambodian artefacts were ``looted to order''
- Sotheby's tires of waiting for French liberalisation
- Gallery gang steals Turner in UKP:1m art raid
January 17, 1999
- Re: Thefts to order (Connie Lowenthal)
- Audio Video Supply
- LAPD Art Theft Detail (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- castles + insurance
- Cultural Property Conferences (1998) - Update (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Man Nabbed in $5 Million Art Theft
- Tualatin's City Hall and Library has been closed after a telephone threat
- International art-theft ring busted in Spain
- Precious violin stolen
January 15, 1999
- Re: Stolen Art to Order (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Van driver 'burnt £500,000 Rubens'
- Thieves Rob Famous Russian Church
- Smuggled Art Confiscated in Russia
- RE: Vatican tangle over library 'sell-off' on Net (Dorothy Africa)
January 14, 1999
- Re: re: Stolen to Order (elaine schlefer)
- French court tells museum to surrender Klimt
- Imran says wife will fight 'fake' charge (Daily Telegraph)
- Vatican tangle over library 'sell-off' on Net (Times of London)
- Court: Smithsonian is not federal agency
- Rare Civil War flag recovered (Spokesman Review/Spokane.net)
January 13, 1999
- The art of insuring museum exhibits (Pittsburg Business Times)
- RE: RE: Stolen to order (Ton Cremers)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (Dorothy Shinn)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (Jason Kaufman)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (Reid Bailey)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (Edward Mayer)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (George N Liddell)
January 11, 1999
- RE: Dr. No; stolen to order (Steve Keller)
- RE: Dr. No; stolen to order (David Armstrong)
- RE: Dr. No; stolen to order (Sofia Paredes)
- A worldly approach to looted art (Looted art problem? No problem, says Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1967 to 1977)
January 9, 1999
- Re: Stolen Asian Art
- Museum Security Mailinglist archive
- National Conference on Cultural Property Protection
- Stolen Asian Art (additional info) Jonathan Sazonoff
- Icons stolen from famed Russian church
- Bulgaria: Police Fight Theft Of Antiquities
- Disaster mitigation web site
- Afghan War Assaults Artifacts (Ancient Treasures in Kabul Turning to Rubble)
- Iglesia Mision El Buen Pastor Church fire
- Theft of sculpture stumps British mission in Ottawa
- MAYA ART RETURN (Denver Art Museum returns carved wooden lintel)
- proof to the long-cited claim that museum holdings are often stolen to order?
- STOLEN DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT RECOVERED IN AUSTRALIA
- RE: proof to the long-cited claim that museum holdings are often stolen to order? (Connie Lowenthal)
- Re: stolen to order? (Steve Keller)
- re Dr No. (stolen to order) (George Liddell)
- RE: stolen to order (Jonathan Sazonoff)
- Re: RE: stolen to order (Steve Keller)
- [Fire Safe Heritage]: Fire Guts Historic Winery
- Hope for the Best...(Prepare for the Worst!): Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) will host a series of disaster response workshops.
January 3, 1999
- Archive of 1997 and 1998 Museum Security Mailinglist messages.
- looking for websites or listserves which deal with looting/smuggling in South, Southeast and East Asia
- Monet taken by Nazis is barred from exhibition (Electronic Telegraph)
- Official with Czech museum says it may have looted paintings
- The Art Theft Research Unit
- RE: final for this year (Ron Simoncini)
- Re: final 1998 message (Steve Keller)
January 2, 1999
- Final for this Year
- Boston museum accused again of housing looted artifacts
- Museum defends artifacts collection; Due diligence cited in MFA acquisitions (Walter Robinson)
- Russia reaffirms pledge to return Nazi-looted art
- Gallery Fights Haggling With a Metal Detector; Van Gogh Scalpers Pestering Patrons (Spencer S. Hsu)
- Museum Flooded When Pipe Bursts (Bonneville Museum)
- The fight to recover stolen cultural property - 1998 in Review
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