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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
The World's Biggest Illicit Industries
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/biggest-illegal-businesses-business-crime_print.html
Nathan Vardi, 06.04.10, 12:02 PM ET
The $125 million theft of five paintings by artists like Picasso and Matisse from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in May caught the attention of the world. But compared with the total annual trade in illicit goods, the heist ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Historically challenged
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/03/use_of_community_preservation_act_money_open_to_increasing_interpretation/?page=full
For projects, worthiness is in the eye of the beholder Disputes over use of Community Preservation Act funds are growing
By Taryn Plumb
Globe Correspondent / June 3, 2010
In the 1920s, the ecclesiastical-style structure — red-tile roof, arched portico, and dozens of windows lined up like an assembly of discerning eyes ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
By our art-crunch correspondents
Hanky-Panky Paulson and Banksy Bernanky
Damien Hirst, the wealthiest artist the world has ever known and a colossus of corporate finance, faces nationalization say City analysts.
As the financial meltdown edged ever closer to the core of the nuclear reactor that is the international banking system, there were mounting ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Er soll Berlin das Stadtschloss nahebringen, im Beutekunst-Streit schlichten, 17 Museen leiten: Von Hermann Parzinger werden Wundertaten erwartet.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
The full 45 pp article by Kwame Opoku [k.opoku@sil.at], including photographs, is available at:http://www.museumbeveiliging.com/benin_to_berlin.pdf
"The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with cheap arguments and tricks."Gert v. Paczensky ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
I become slightly nervous these days when I see an article or a note on the question of restitution of art signed by a European or American museum director, wondering whether we are going to read something that the normal person can understand even if he does not ...
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
It was Bonhams and ATG columnist who first raised alarm over Greenhalgh fakes
THE British Museum were credited with uncovering the fraud that led to the jailing of serial faker Shaun Greenhalgh two weeks ago, while auction houses and the trade were criticised for selling his work.
Now, however, as ATG columnist ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Eine gute Figur
Da steht sie nun und kann nicht anders. Sie schweigt. Dabei hätte sie viel zu erzählen. Sie wäre die einzige, die den Kunstraub in eigener Sache aufklären könnte. Und nur sie wüsste genau, wo sie die vergangenen 100 Jahre
über gesteckt hat. Fast das gesamte 20. Jahrhundert über war ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
full text plus photographs: http://www.savingantiquities.org/feature_cyprusinterview.php
by JESSICA DIETZLER
In light of the recent decision to include ancient coins on the list of import restrictions, Jessica Dietzler conducted the following interview with Dr. Pavlos Flourentzos, Director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, about the significance of the decision and why it is ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Within a year after Microsoft’s presentation of Windows 95, and the steady increase of the Internet, the Museum Security Network was launched. December 2007 MSN is celebrating its 11th anniversary. The main purpose of the site was to provide relevant links, articles, product information, plus a news service about incidents ...
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
HISTORY LOST
ATHENS: Benaki Museum, September 11 - October 22 2006.http://www.benaki.gr/ANEMON PRODUCTIONS, 5 Stisihorou st., 10674 Athens, Greece, Tel: +30 210 7211073, 7229388, Fax: +30 210 7211073, e-mail: info@anemon.gr http://www.anemon.gr/
2005 Anemon Productions produced The Network, documentary about the illicit trade in antiquities (read a review of this documentary at:http://www.museum-security.org/thenetwork.html)
The exhibition, ...
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