[CPProt.net] CPPROT and MSN-List Messages April 2005
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Thu May 5 08:48:46 CEST 2005
CPPROT and MSN-List Messages April 2005
CPPROT Messages April 2005
• FW: Assyrian treasures heading for 'hostile' territory (Cori
Wegener)
• A Sculptor's Weighty Work Is Whole Again
• China's Request forArt-Import Ban Stirs Debate
• International team: Collection belonged to Montreal art dealer Max
Stern
• FW: U.S. v. One Oil Painting Entitled ³Femme en blanc² by Pablo
Picasso.
• A Frenchman's business: fake old masterpieces paint extravagant
Dubai hotel walls
• Eagle-Eyed Garbageman Rescues Library's Stolen Bird
• Korea: Thieves Robbed Confucian Shrines and Temples with Crane
• Riker's officer suspended in Dali painting scam
• Theft leads to jail, $500 fine
• Index March 2005 messages
• China: Heimkehr kultureller Gegenstände
• Preserving our Past: Looting and the Black Market in Art,
Artifacts, and Antiquities Patty Gerstenblith
• Stolen cultural items on the rise, more traffic along the border
• Italy: 18TH CENTURY OIL PAINTING RECOVERED
• Antiques smugglers seized in Yemen
• Antiquities sleuth sifts museum collections for fakes
• Nairobi: Crisis At the Museum
• Australia: Ex-ranger accused of theft
• Azerbaijan urges to stop destruction of monuments in occupied lands
• FW: Judge Declines to Toss Suit Over Painting Allegedly Stolen by
Nazis
• FW: Ethiopia to get obelisk back
• Investigan robo fósil dinosaurio museo durantevacaciones Pascua
• Munch robbery a diversion?
• Former Museum Director Indicted in Theft of Space Artifacts
• Canada can set an example of how disputes over Nazi-looted treasure
can be resolved, by Bonnie Czegledi
• London: Double trouble. Play about a famous art forgery case
• USA: Art dealer found guilty. Signature sought for false affidavit
• Venezuela: Se robaron la efigie del Chino Canónico/ They were
stolen the effigy of the Chinese Canonical
• Italy, victim of numerous cultural property thefts, takes over 50
years to fulfill promise and return Axum Obelisk to Ethiopia
• USA: Debate kindles over art values
• Bewaffneter Kunstraub vor Aufklärung
• Stolen Picasso found at drug lord's house
• Mexico: Con apoyo de la IP, rescatan Las Tres Gracias de Miloslav
Chlupac/With support of the IP, rescue The Three Thanks of Miloslav Chlupac
• Stolen Statue Recovered
• Verschollene Schiffe. Diebstahl von Kunstwerken ist heutzutage fast
alltäglich
• Netherlands: RESTITUTIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS RESTITUTION OF FIVE
ARTWORKS
• Mexico: Crece robo arqueológico y sacro ante indiferencia de
autoridades/Robbery of archaeological and sacred art grows in the face of
indifference of authorities
• Return of obelisk to Ethiopia delayed again
• Italy behave!
• Digital reconstruction could resurrect original vision of many
ancient artists, craftsmen
• FW: Ethiopia Angry Over Postponement of Axum Obelisk's Return
• FW: Return of obelisk to Ethiopia delayed again
• 1 charged with artifact theft on Coconino Forest
• The Courier-Mail: Man charged with Cezzane theft in court [12apr05]
• ARTE E CULTURA RITROVATE AD EXPOLEVANTE DUE MOSTRE RIDONANO AL
PUBBLICO OPERE TRAFUGATE
• Recuperate dai Carabinieri 5 tele rubate
• Oslo Police Charge Second Man in 'Scream' Theft
• Man charged in Munch robbery
• Ethopia vents anger as obelisk stays in Italy
• Strengere Regeln für Handel mit Kulturgütern
• Dresden: Krimi um die Königskette
• 1.45 lakh books destroyed in state's worst act of vandalism
• The Art Newspaper newsletter
• Art theft puzzles officials
• FW: UK Art Crime Conference
• China: Where have Chen Yifei's studio paintings gone?
• Why the recent rash of biblical fakery is about so much more than
money
• SAFE reports on the CPAC hearing to consider China's request
Cindy Ho
• Key finds in Temple Mount trash heap
• Library burning flayed
• Ethiopia wants heroes' skulls returned
• En ocho años se han presentado 130 robos dearte sacro en iglesias
de Tlaxcala
• Kunstraub in Basilika St. Martin
• An Ancient Masterpieceor a Master's Forgery?
• Finding Fakes: Sleuth sorts authentic ancient art objects from
forgeries - sometimes very old themselves
• Iraq War & Archaeology site up in the air
• Santa Anna's leg a real war trophy?
• Mandela suing ex-ally in art feud
• Ethiopian obelisk set for return from Rome
• The first of three parts of the famed Axum obelisk, which was
plundered by fascist Italy nearly 70 years ago, has arrived home in
Ethiopia.
• Sargento novela investigación sobre robo de códice de siglo X
• Rome returns stolen obelisk
• Presentación del libro "Objetivo Beato" sobre la recuperación del
valioso "Códice del Beato de Liébana"
• Thousands of Ethiopians cheered and cried joyously as Italy
yesterday returned the first piece of the Axum obelisk (Habemus Axum)
• Cezanne theft evidence found at tip
• Beutekunst 60 Jahre nach Kriegsende
• PRESS RELEASE, Netherlands: POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION BY RESTITUTIONS
COMMITTEE ON RETURN OF WORKS BY TROOST AND VAN DER MIJN
• Britain told by Ethiopia to give back treasures
• USA: Rare violin stolen from car
• Canada: Rare violin stolen from East York home
• Two prints by nationally renowned Northwest artist Jacob Lawrence
were stolen from the offices of the Washington State Arts Commission
• REPOST: Two prints by nationally renowned Northwest artist Jacob
Lawrence were stolen from the offices of the Washington State Arts
Commission
• FW: The Art Newspaper newsletter
• USA: Priceless Artifacts Lost In Barn Fire
• Le scandale de l'obélisque volé
• India: Man behind Rs 100-cr Husain art deal is accused of forgery
• USA: 300-Pound Sculpture Stolen
• Hotline: Hub fest offers Gardner theft doc
• Stolen centuries-old violin found in LA alley
• Dutch Librarians Fight Domestic Patriot Act
• Martin Schoyen at the heart of an inquiry to establish whether part
of his multimillion-pound collection was illegally exported from the Middle
East
• Musicians targeted??? Stacie M. Jones
• Second of three sections of obelisk reaches Axum.
• Bolivia: La iglesia de Callapa volvió a ser robada
• Ethiopia may seek return of 19th-century child prince's body from
Britain
• Thief steels heart, takes art
• Tauziehen um die älteste Bibel. Ein ägyptisches Kloster erhebt
Anspruch auf den »Codex Sinaiticus« aus dem 4. Jahrhundert
• The cost of art theft to the thief
• Spainish police arrest 16 art traffickers
• La Policía se incauta de 10.358 obrasde arte que una red expoliaba
• Suspicious Fire Destroys School Library
• La policía recupera más de 10.000 bienes culturales expoliados La
operación se desarrolló en siete comunidades y fueron detenidas 16 personas
• La Policía recupera más diez mil obras de arte y arresta a
dieciséis personas
• FW: Final part of Ethiopia obelisk arrives from Italy
• Vast necropolis discovered under Ethiopia's Axum obelisk site
• Do antique dealers preserve the past or steal it?
• History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq
• Korea: Row continues over alleged forged art
• Geklautes Gemälde sichergestellt
• Museum inquiry into 'smuggling' of ancient bowls
• History lost in dust of war-torn Iraq (with photos)
• Search Of Molestation Suspect's Home Uncovers Antiquities. Suspect
Volunteered For Digs In Egypt.
• New Zealand: burglary of several libraries by an organised criminal
enterprise
• RESTITUTIONS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS RESTITUTION OF EIGHT WORKS FROM
THE NETHERLANDS ART PROPERTY COLLECTION
• Norwegian Police Deny Stolen Paintings Have Been Destroyed
• UK: Stolen painting is returned to owner
• Thefts of works of art, 6 arrests in Sicily
• Botswana: Claim back stolen artefacts
• FIRENZE - FURTI D'ARTE, RECUPERATE 20 OPERE
• Police Doubt Report That 'The Scream' Burned
• small statue inherited by Katy woman could become part of
international effort to return items stolen by Nazis
• $1 painting fetches . . . police
• Propuesta para tipificar como delito grave el saqueo de arte sacro
• Detienen en Onil a dos miembros más de la red de falsificación y
robo de arte
• New Zealand: Police make seventh arrest in book-theft investigation
• Homeless man acquitted in library fire
• Pennsylvania's Highest Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Art
Collection to Move
• Demand 700 million in Munch compensation
• The Art Newspaper
• FW: UN urges Ethiopia to postpone re-erecting obelisk
• Oslo seeks compensation for stolen art
• Looted Art Strains Russo-German Relations
• The Courier-Mail: Painting stolen in broad daylight [29apr05]
• Togo: Goethe-Institut in Togo verwüstet (library burnt down
completely)
• Returning Looted Treasures to Their Rightful Owners
• Rumeur de destruction autour des Munch volés
• Detenidos en Burgos con 648 obras de arte sacro de Valencia
• Reciprocity Plea Over Trophy Art
• IRCICA Re-establishes Iraqi Libraries Looted in Occupation
MSN-List Messages April 2005
• Preserving our Past: Looting and the Black Market in Art,
Artifacts, and Antiquities
• Munch robbery a diversion?
• Perú: Restauran antiguo lienzo que dañó un ladrón/ They restore old
cloth that was damaged by a thief
• España: Investigan robo fósil dinosaurio museo durante vacaciones
Pascua/Museum investigates fossil robbery dinosaurio during Easter vacations
• España: Roban cinco ángeles del Altar de San Vicente en Ruzafa/They
steal five angels of the Altar of San Vicente in Ruzafa
• Norwegian arrests could be linked to Munch theft
• France: Nature morte à la charlotte de Picasso retrouvé par la
police/A Picasso rediscovered by the police
• Picasso painting which went missing from the Pompidou Centre in
Paris has been recovered by police
• Mildere Strafen für Räuber von Van-Gogh-Gemälden
• Library fire reaches 4 alarms
• Anger has been directed at arsonists in Whitnash who have forced
the closure of the town's library.
• FW: Developing A Disaster Plan: Web-based class
• Rare painting missing from Bangalore Fort
• Oslo police detain man in 'Scream' theft
• USA: Maine man sentenced for stealing Strawbery Banke Museum
antiques
• Officials hope for clues in library break-in
• FW: Alert- STOLEN- Yellowstone artwork
• Fire breaks out in Manipur's biggest library
• FW: UK Art Crime Conference
• Query: "Clean agent" or "Cleanguard" fire extinguishers
• Indicted former library official pleads not guilty
• Police remand for 2 suspected arsonists
• Library May Be Closed After Nearby Fire
• WCAL expresses anguish at library destruction
• Virginia Library could be closed for six months
• Anthrax scare in Melville Library
• USA: fire believed to have been started by an arsonist gutted the
historic Haycock-Spellman
• India: Security loopholes in tour hotspots
• Marcellus museum wants confiscated gun back
• Library fire trial begins
• Arrest brings Munch solution nearer
• A decade later... Since its opening, over one million people have
visited the museum.
• A Moscow Treasure Reopens One Year After a Deadly Fire
• España: La Policía detiene a dos personas en Llíria y recupera
obras de arte y antigüedades
• Defendant: UGA library fire was accidental
• Junger Mann auf dem Weg nach Italien (Statue returned to museum in
Italy 13 years after theft)
• Guilty pleas expected in book theft. FOUR ACCUSED OF TAKING RARE
WORKS FROM TRANSYLVANIA. Stun gun used on a Transylvania University
special-collections librarian
• Four Plead Guilty To Stealing Rare Books
• Stolen Centuries-Old Violin Found in L.A.
• Clues Released in Science Center Heist
• Police Charge Third Man Over 'The Scream' Theft
• Museum Collection destroyed in fire gave insight into early tribal
practices and movements
• Museum theft inside job: Some Cosmosphere artifacts located,
recovery efforts unknown
• Former museum leader in court
• Oslo seeks compensation for stolen art
• County commissioners laud actions in Castle fire
• 9-11 Hijackers Used Public Libraries
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