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Reports sent to the Museum Security Mailinglist January 1998:
January 31, 1998
- US-customs investigates on Schiele; The verdict wether the
confiscation was legal will be not until the beginning of March -
Greek experts begin to restore Acropolis temple - " Beutekunst",
Looted Art - The Art of The Steal (The Man Who Stole The Mona Lisa) -
Drake Theft ("History of the Indian tribes of North America") Braque
masterpiece, in the Pompidou Center, may have been stolen two articles
about the same: - Plunder in Vichy France reported - Paris bought
Braque looted by Nazis - Fire hits historic San Antonio mission -
Vandals scar memorial to city's fallen heroes - UNESCO
DIRECTOR-GENERAL FEDERICO MAYOR CONDEMNS THE BOMBING IN KANDY (SRI
LANKA) - Former Israeli lawmaker in alleged art scam - German art deal
smooths exiles' return - Famous Man Ray photographs forged. - Looted
Art and Congress - Re: Looted Art and Congress - Man Ray forgeries and
ISIS technology - Guatemala demands MFA return of artifacts -
Documents talk of art trades between Swiss and Nazis - McAlpine turns
down museum refund plea (artefacts McAlpine sold the museum some years
before it emerged they had been stolen) - Masterpieces go at a loss in
Japan slump
January 23, 1998
- Grave robbing video
- New hope for Schiele (Die Presse Vienna)
- Jury finds N.H. thief both sane and guilty
- Did painting of nuns get on thief's goat?
- Monks lift ban on women viewing Goya frescos
- CUMBERLAND GAP SAVED FROM COAL MINE THREAT (of National Park
interest) - NATIONAL PARKS BIG LOSERS AT THE BOX OFFICE - HH Sisson:
risk management solutions for the entire art community -
http://www.thecityreview.com carries full coverage of the Denny case,
major controversies involving the attributions of early Chinese
paintings and the provenance of Egon Schiele paintings - query;
training videos for Security Officers - VANDALISING UNPOPULAR STATUES
ETC. - Two Matisse paintings damaged in Rome exhibit - Schiele in New
York - A further wait. - Re: query: Iraq's website displaying stolen
items - Cont. ed. courses on security? - Artist arrested at NY City
Hall - Museum Security Internships (and reply)
January 18, 1998
- Boston Globe "Lost Art series" online
- confidential security information
- re: card keys or code locks historic houses
- Re: Two questions . . .answered
January 17, 1998
- Re: security matters openly discussed on an unsecure network
- locking systems
- updating safety procedures ( bomb threat, chemical or hazardous
material spill, accidents, and various other situations) - 1998
DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK NOW AVAILABLE - effects of Electronic
Flash on paper, paintings, etc. - Rag-picker nabbed for stealing
artefacts - Further developments in the Schiele Case -Die Presse
Vienna 16th January 1997 edition - Schiele in New York: New delays -
What does Prosecuting Attorney Morgenthau want? - Harvard museum
acquisitions shock scholars - Sotheby's auctions off its honor (Book
Review)
January 15, 1998
- Two questions . . . use of guard radios and/or earphone ( and
replies by: David Liston, Robert Fawcett, Kevin Murszewsk, Margie
Searl, James Holley) - Austrian seeks paintings held in U.S.: Curator
says art impounded in N.Y. belong to Holocaust victim - N.H. man's
thefts blamed on mental illness (accused of possessing 170 pieces of
stolen art, furniture, and computers) - Man pleads guilty here to
smuggling ancient armor - Panel Studying Nazi Wartime Loot; French
Can't Estimate Booty - Museum moves old stone cross (accused of
conducting an archaeological "smash and grab raid") - Turk Cypriot
held in icon theft probe in Cyprus - Woman spray-paints priceless
White House sculptures (follow up on yesterday's report) - Artist
arrested at City Hall during Giuliani speech - Owner, Occupier -
follow up to "Misdirected Fax (Do German Museums have claims on
pictures in the Louvre?)
January 14, 1998
- Recovery of Items Stolen from the Historical Society of PA
Organization: FBI PRESS RELEASE - White House Paining Vandal Caught -
Questions: restitution of cultural property - Guidelines for sketching
and copying in the museum - Official files on compulsory art traffic:
Minister Gehrer is going to have the origins of paintings in Austrian
Museums historically and scientifically investigated. GUATEMALANS
DEMAND RETURN OF ARTIFACTS - Re: Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg
in the Louvre?
January 13, 1998
-Schiele (translations german articles and comments)
-Hold Those Paintings! : The Manhattan D.A. seizes alleged Nazi loot -
ILLICIT TRAFFIC OF KOGURYO DYNASTY TOMB MURAL PAINTINGS OUT OF NORTH
KOREA INTO JAPAN - Display reflects anxiety about museum security; The
FBI's recovery of stolen artifacts spotlights problem of insider
theft. - Seeking Moral Justice by the Return of Looted Art -
Information on theft of Mona Lisa in 1911 - Copenhagen mermaid's head
found - THE ART OF THE STEAL - Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg in
the Louvre?
January 10, 1998
- home of the legendary Minotaur in danger of collapsing.
- Museum art seized in Nazi looting row
- U.S. defends Austria art seizure, probe launched
- Austria outraged as U.S. seizes Schiele pictures
Re: Prison labor
Austria-USA-MOMA-Schiele
"The USA has forced the art world into a banana republic"
January 8, 1998
- Museum refuses request to retain paintings that were apparently
stolen by Nazis. - MOMA stays out of dispute over ownership of
paintings - Janitor charged in heist of U.S. historical relics -
Little Mermaid loses her head to vandals for a second time - Flood at
Higgins Armory Museum - Explosive Artifacts - Inmate's expected
transfer chills Gardner case - Tourist complains that he was framed in
the Louvre (security guards accused yesterday of breaking the nose of
a Spanish tourist who refused to let them search his bag.)
January 1 - 5, 1998
- ANTIQUITIES WATCHDOG
- Re: DECEMBER 31, 1997....final for this year
- DECEMBER 31, 1997....final for this year -Reply
- recent theft: http://www.kristalle.com to view photos of some of the
pieces taken. - Re: loss of historic gold coins - Art museum sues
couple over pledge - Crumbling Minoan palace gets urgent restoration
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