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INDEX OCTOBER 1997
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* October 27 - 30, 1997
- Uproar in Umbria over plans for ancient Rome theme park
- Skelton Paintings Are Target of Second Heist
- Duerer, Drawing a Hot Bath (Recovered Artwork Called `a Miracle')
- Fresh tremors dash Assisi church hopes
- Brigham Young University Says No to Rodin Nudes
- Theft of Biological/Palaeontological Specimens
- Historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse to be Moved (National Park)
- Joan of Arc birthplace 'desecrated' with EU aid

* October 24 - 26, 1997
- New concern over damage to frescoes
- Archaeologists strike
- PARK ADVOCACY GROUP MOVES TO BLOCK PERMIT FOR HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE
BASE REDEVELOPMENT District's Decision Does Not Recognize Magnitude
Impacts
- Umbria, home of the arts, pleads for aid
- Getty scoops British art treasure (the power of money...)
- Art Thieves Leave Many Frowns Behind( Gallery owner is waiting for
police action after lithograph by Red Skelton is stolen)
- Newspaper says Van Gogh Sunflowers'' may be fake
- Looted Ethiopia's Axum Obelisk Will Return Home From Rome in
April,1998
- Experts Weigh Sending David Abroad

* OCTOBER 19 - 23, 1997
- World Heritage Newsletter (TYPHOON DAMAGE TO HUE IMPERIAL CITY,
VIETNAM)
- Turning heads: a new angle on 'ruined' picture (accusation that
restorers have ruined its design)
- stolen Cypriot church art treasures have been discovered by German
police (4 reports by Cyprus News Agency, dated October 19 and 15)
- Alert: Another Book Crook
- recovery of valuable collection of stolen 18th century paintings
- Matisse painting, missing for 57 years, may be at museum
- Suspect admits a try to sell stolen art (Rembrandt, Durer works
were included)
- Twice-Stolen Art Takes A Twisted Trail to N.Y. Azerbaijani Lawyer
Held After High-Speed Chase
- Thieves steal cemetery's historic gates
- Stolen Byzantine art recovered in Munich
- Valuable artifacts fall foul of ivory ban
- US police turn theft inquiry into a fine art
- NEW ROAD BUILDING ASSAULT ON NATIONAL PARKS: Broad Coalition
Denounces Road Through Petroglyph Monument
- Art Stolen by Nazi Troops Identified in Seattle Museum
- THE HEIST AND THE HUNT (SUPPOSEDLY AUTHENTIC PHOTOS OF STOLEN ART
TREASURES SHOWED UP LAST WEEK ON PAGE ONE AND TV SCREENS)
- The art underground (odyssey of several Rembrandt and Durer
drawings)
- 4 cemetery gates found in Brewster

* October 12 - 18, 1997
- Gallery attack by Sydney man (51), Serrano Photo
- Serrano show axed (two youths destroyed Piss Christ with a hammer;
National Gallery of Victoria last night cancelled its controversial
exhibition by Andres Serran
- Historical society halts bid to sell art, artifacts
- Child killer painting back on display in Britain (restorers
repaired damage caused by angry viewers)
- Ellis Island: Armenian photos too gory for exhibit
(Armenian-American groups accuse the National Park Service of
censorshi
- question about provenance of 16th century decorated helmet
- 60% of Art Collectors Would Buy More Art If It Were Accompanied By
An Irrevocable Authenticity Guarantee

EDITORIALS AND ADDITIONAL REPORTS ABOUT DESTRUCTION SERRANO
PICTURE:
- Andres Serrano exhibition had to close
- Philosophy of the hammer (Andres Serrano accuses the National
Gallery of Victoria of being "spineless")
- Art that turns heads may take heads (Andres Serrano yesterday
condemned Dr Timothy Potts, his gallery and his reputation to eternal
damnatio
- Are contemporary artists asking for it? (COSMO LANDESMAN argues
that artists should not be surprised by violent reactions to their
wor
- Vandals splotched paint on statues of Christopher Columbus in both
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
- Medieval clock tower near Assisi brought down by latest tremor

- Basques believed to target Guggenheim Museum in Spain
- Police arrest three in connection with Guggenheim
attack
- Two more arrested after Spain's Guggenheim attack
- Pissant art (Editorial about Serrano affair)
- Leonardo bike 'was 1960s doodle'
- Rome frescoes damaged as quakes spread
- Alleged Attack on Guggenheim Foiled (The Basque separatists who
planned to attack the new Guggenheim Museum during its opening this
weekend were prepared to blow up 12 grenades during ceremonies
tended by the king, authorities said Wednesday.)
- Stolen Rembrandt May Be Returned
- Russia upper house appeals to court on ``booty'' art
- Art historians urge caution on results of paint examination
- Rembrandt return may be closer (Paint chip analysis encourages
officials)
- Death Mars Museum Opening
- Rembrandt painting is now behind bulletproof glass
- Country house 'copy' is Velazquez masterpiece, says Spanish expert
- Statue stolen as art attacks spread to Sydney
- ART ATTACK (Drawing the moral line)
- Allegedly fake JFK papers subject of federal probe
- Spain bolsters security for museum opening
- Assisi basilica restoration to be finished by 2000

* October 6 - 11, 1997
-THE HEIST AND THE HUNT. (Isabella Stewart Gardner)
- Restorers' art saves a Rembrandt ( Rembrandt's Danae back on public
display after being vandalized in 1985.)
- Fresh quakes hit Italy, more damage to St. Francis basilica
- Re: 5,000 volume Everglades National Park library in poor
condition. (storage facilities at Gettysburg National Military Park
are bad)
- Gov't again calls for return of Parthenon marbles
- Gallery vows to expose fake Van Gogh art
- The House voted today to seriously weaken the Antiquities Act of
1906 (the law that originally protected such national treasures as
Denali, Acadia, and the Grand Canyon National Parks)
- Alleged partner indicted in U.S. for Baku art theft (trying to sell
$10 million worth of stolen drawings that were part of a German
collection)
- South Africa seeks its share of Clive's treasure trove
- Society to retain artifacts, for now (The Historical Society of Pa.
had sought to unload thousands of objects. The proposal met with
flak).
- Two nabbed with Peruvian antiquity
- Antiquities smugglers arrested, artifacts confiscated
- Klimt painting sells for £14.5 million ( the most expensive picture
sold in the world this year)
- Vandalism
- Disaster preparedness and management priorities
- Assisi battles to save the frescoes
- Unearthed tombs tell tale of a rich civilization (A mixture of good
and bad news)
- FBI agents strike gold in Philadelphia. Acting undercover, they
were to buy a Peruvian artifact. (See also yesterday's report)
- RE: Disaster preparedness and management priorities

* October 4 - 5, 1997
- Efforts to verify Gardner photos fail / Evidence on stolen art is
called inconclusive
- park's historical legacy is endangered (Everglades National Park)
- Thieves plunder treasure from the ruins of Assisi's glory. (Chorus
of condemnation grows as gross inefficiency, neglect and theft take
their toll on precious remnants of Italy's vulnerable artistic
heritage)
- CHRONOLOGY OF THE UMBRIAN DISASTER
- Fears of 'Big One' fuelled by sheer strength and number of tremors
- Published photos may show stolen Rembrandts (the Gardner secretly
met
with Youngworth in New York last month and gave him $10,000 to
facilitate the return of the stolen paintings)
- TEXFAKE AN ACCOUNT OF THE THEFT AND FORGERY OF
EARLY TEXAS PRINTED DOCUMENTS
- query: byzantine-art, stolen or looted in northern Cyprus during
and
after the war.
- Man who stole to buy clocks faces prison time

ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER HEIST:
- Published Photos May Show Rembrandts Museum Pursues Stolen Art
- Agents said to get stolen-art photos

- Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil Sold for $7.6 Million
- Neolithic gold jewelry to go on display
- National's £40m Rubens could be fake
- MEASURES TO RESTORE ITALY'S TREASURES

* October 1 - 3, 1997
- $100,000 Sculpture Stolen From Gallery
- Damaged Lincoln Statue Returned To Detroit Public Library
- Workers drop dinosaur skeleton
- Neolithic gold treasures seized in Greece (additional report: £2m
'sting' recovers ancient jewellery in Greece)
- Vandals prey on dinosaur treasure
- Struggle to save Italy's artistic treasures (rescuers further
damaged frescoes by climbing on to the mounds of rubble to re-enact
their discovery of the four victims elsewhere for the benefit of
e television cameras!)
- controversial portrait of Moors murderer Myra Hindley
(Protesters defaced the portrait with ink and eggs within hours of
it being exhibited)
- vandalism ( attacks on paintings or other works of art on display

with a liquid such as acid, alkali or paint remover.)
- re: vandalism
- Verdict, tale of photos twist Gardner case (renegade Randolph
antiques dealer who says he has access to art stolen from the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - is headed back to prison)
- Curse puts fear of God into thieving clerics (stealing books)
- Earthquake Shakes Italy Again (badly weakened medieval bell tower
in
Nocera Umbra collapsed in the new quake).
- Dinosaur bones on block at Sotheby's (Federal agents, museum
curators,
paleontologists and Indian tribal representatives are flocking to
Sotheby's auction house in New York)



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