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July 31, 2000
- another major arttheft in The Netherlands
- Greece launches design competition for new Acropolis museum

July 28, 2000
- Re: Museum Security questions (palazzo forti)
- Re: Museum Security questions (Adalberto Biasiotti)
- Silberberg claiming a looted Van Gogh (Bert Eifer)
- Spokane collector victimized
- new distributor for Fauser security windows from German
- Titanic Address Book Stolen
- A 19th-century antiquities merchant, whose outrageous forgeries fooled most of
the people most of the time, gets another viewing

July 26, 2000
- Windsor Castle video
- query: wireless in Europe (Steve Keller)
- Mesa Verde Blaze Threatens Ancient Ruins
- Trade in stolen art should be a crime, say MPs

July 25, 2000
- Press release:
MADONNA AND CHILD PAINTING TO RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA
- RE: Security questions (Peter Ruefli)
- RE: Security questions (Rob Green)
- RE: Security questions (Reid Bailey)
- RE: Security questions (Adalberto Biasiotti)

July 24, 2000
- Re: Security questions (Steve Keller)
- Charges shock Milwaukee art community
- Stolen Koran was offered to Christie's

July 23, 2000
- Police Recover Stolen Virgin Mary
- Web site lets crooks sell what they steal
- Treasures Among the Ashes (Indian Ruins Discovered in Fire-Ravaged National
Park) - Arrests show dark side of art world (Dealers charged in beating of
broker; FBI seeks link to international thefts) - British arts set to get
GBP.150m net showcase

July 21, 2000 (part II)
- A smuggle line to Australia

July 21, 2000
- Security questions
- World Jewish Congress to claim artwork looted from Jews
- GBP.20m scheme for National Gallery visits

July 20, 2000
- Attempted Sale of Rare Books from the National Agricultural Library
- Discovery of Indian artifacts kills plan for Fall City soccer field
- man arrested in connection with a beating in Whitefish Bay may be tied to the
theft of millions of dollars in artwork in Italy - eBay pulls plug on Egyptian
pyramid auction - Austrian museum can keep stolen art

July 19, 2000
- Return of Helmantel paintings
- Sotheby Case Will Go to a Trial
- ALR Change of Address - Immediate
- Auction of Fossil Stirs Debate
- Historians want ASI to be made autonomous
- Smuggled treasures will go back to Mexico
- Guarding tribal past links officer to heritage
- Russian Law on Export of Art Confuses

July 18, 2000
- Art or Imitation? (More than 200 works attributed to Van Gogh could be fakes)
- auction houses and smuggled antiquities (Michel van Rijn) - Unnamed Vendor
Says Pyramid Pieces for Sale on Web

July 16, 2000
- International Committee on Museum Security (ICMS) annual meeting
- RE: Austria's Stolen Art Listings Now On-Line (Ton Cremers)
- 'Shame of Aboriginal art fakes'
- National parks say that theft of protected artifacts is soaring (Last year's
record attributed to looters and souvenir-seekers)

July 14, 2000
- 2001 National Conference on Cultural Property Protection
- Quito theft, Getty provenance
- Austria's Stolen Art Listings Now On-Line
- Web Site Can't Find Art Owners

July 13, 2000
- The Museum Security network DISCLAIMER has been updated
- Workshop on disaster training
- Mystery of how Mata Hari lost her head (disappeared from macabre museum) - A
Bottle of Coca-Cola, Or A Piece of Local Cultural Property in Paris?

July 12, 2000
- Artful sleuthing
- Getty Museum paintings posted on the Net
- Paintings got around (Three art-gallery operators who made millions by selling
the same paintings to many people were sent to jail yesterday for fraud) - Rare
books, art stolen from embassy in London - FSA (David Todd)

July 10, 2000
- Rare books stolen from Bar-Ilan University
- Magnate's Picasso buy heightens museum ethics debate
- Statues taken; cemetery locks gates

July 6, 2000
- Product information
- Michel van Rijn, the final blow, smuggled antiquities whitewashed in Australia


July 6, 2000
- Provenance research website (John Walsh, J.Paul Getty Museum)
- SFMOMA Suit Meets Setback; Museum, Russell heirs at odds over Picasso
- Form follows function: The development of the Internet as a tool in fighting
art theft.

July 5, 2000
- ArtResolve : alternative dispute resolution for works of art and antiquity -
Fire suppression options - IFCPP - Artist Bacon 'had a Swiss account to dodge
income tax' - SPOLIATION ADVISORY PANEL ON ART LOOTED IN THE NAZI ERA ANNOUNCE
FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE AND RULES OF PROCEDURE

July 3, 2000
- U.S. Archaeologist Held in Greece
- Britain urged to return 'looted' Italian treasure

July 1, 2000
- 'CON' JOB FOR MGM
- Find Stolen Art.Com: mission statement
- Spain Send Stuffed Body to Africa
- GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ


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