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* January 31, 2001
- Judge Rules U.S. Courts Can't Hear Overseas
- Police investigate art theft at Colby
- query: Training for museum security guards
- Fire Risks at Library of Congress
- Replica artefact stolen from museum (More on Auckland museum theft)
- Relics of medieval India left cracked but still standing amid the rubble
- Antiquities Authority claim blocking sale of family's home
- £30m plan to halt Venice flooding
- Egyptian writer imprisoned for criticizing Islam

* January 30, 2001
- Auckland Museum break in (Museum robbers broke in through side door)
- Museum man jailed over coin thefts
- Museum workers win first round of legal battle
- Tax woes stall artifact return
- Temple moves past theft
- Import Restrictions Imposed On Archaeological Material Originating in Italy and
Representing the Pre-Classical, Classical, and Imperial Roman Periods (additional
information)
- Banned in Boston (The Gardner Museum drops an inconvenient book)
- Thieves sell valuable library books online

* January29, 2001
- Historic Chinese town torn between preservation, `progress'
- Terra Museum fight takes to airwaves
- Re: Art world anger at modern museum planning 'snub' (Roger Wulff)
- SERRANO PICS LAND CHRISTIE'S IN HOT WATER
- KHALILI COLLECTION EXHIBITION PULLED FROM BARD
- Art Heist Was a Bust
- Temperature Rising in Old Master Drawings
- Re: Thieves plunder libraries for profit
- Tracing histories (Chicago worldwide center of the controversies surrounding
missing art as well as the legal and ethical issues over ownership)
- Complex issues arise when art moves in times of crisis
- Berlin returns stolen treasures to Russia

* January 26, 2001
- Visonic Ltd. - Manufacturers of the PowerArt
- Art world anger at modern museum planning 'snub'
- Judge rules Howdy Doody puppet belongs with Detroit museum
- The Art Newspaper, This week's top stories
- Police tried to ban Lennon's art
- Sean Connery: Elgin Marbles should be returned to Athens
- Egypt's Forgotten Antiquities

* January 25, 2001
- IFAR Evening on the Rembrandt Research Project
- Publisher's foundation donating $10 million to American Art Museum
- New Internet art sales and auction sites are finally bringing some transparency to an area
traditionally shrouded in secrecy
- Call for proposals Euromed Heritage
- Sotheby's Advanced Art Dealer $1 Million
- Thieves plunder libraries for profit (International black market saps treasures from book
collections)
- Book theft is an age-old crime
- Stolen painting found in mobster's house (more on recovery painting stolen from
Albuquerque Museum of Art and History in 1989)

* January 24, 2001
- Treasury deal to let museums scrap fees
- Stolen $410,000 Painting Found In Cleveland (Man Says He Bought It At Flea Market)
- Yale Researching Provenance of Courbet Painting
- Yahoo faces new action over Nazi sales

* January 23, 2001
- Stolen Picasso Recovered
- Art con man must pay back £125,000
- Museum held up by sprinkler snafu
- Art from collector with a Nazi past puts Yale on spot
- Auctioning of dinosaurs and other natural history relics angers scientists
- Stolen Greek artifacts returned to homeland
- Judge Dismisses Claims Vs. eBay
- Concern at new digging on Temple Mount
- Consulting Firm Adds Architect to Staff (Steve Keller)

* January 22, 2001
- Louvre Museum evacuated following bomb threat
- Fakes used to fight art theft
- Art collection vanishes in Estrada's wake
- Stolen Scuptures fom Cyrene http://www.cyrenethefts.org
- Re: China Syndrome (Steve Keller)
- FBI wants fake paintings burned

* January 21, 2001
- U.S., Italy Act to Halt Pillage of Antiquities
- Owner told he can't have his paintings (Gustav Rau collection)
- "china syndrome" (about curator 'pocketing' artifacts)
- Cash call to avert crisis in Glasgow museums

* Special: January 19, 2001
- Kansas City's dubious O'Keeffes. The sale that turned to scandal

* January 19, 2001
- Police arrest employee in Ontario legislature art theft
- FBI Returns Stolen Objects to Greece
- The Art Newspaper: This week's top stories
- Payout for painting sold to escape Nazis
- U.S. MISHANDLED NAZI LOOT OF HOLOCAUST, PANEL SAYS

* January 18, 2001
- Display was radioactive, museum admits
- British Museum: What happens now
- International Arts Federation Created
- Disclosure of Nazi-era art planned (Museums will catalogue holdings for posting on the
Net)

* January 17, 2001
- Re: Auction Houses Sweeten Deal (R.J.Viola)
- Truck smashes historic Seattle landmark
- Museum 'deceived' over portico stone
- Faking keepsakes from a tragic time (Holocaust artifacts compete with counterfeits)
- Nazi items are withdrawn from DuMouchelles' auction

* January 14 and 15, 2001
- Sweden art theft go-between says he did no wrong
- Auction Houses Sweeten Deal
- Row over parliament art 'insult'
- Nationalisation of museums claim rejected
- Woman Still Protesting MLK Museum
- Czech ministry sets up Internet site for lost art

* January 13, 2001
- Classic art is famously phony; South Florida man faces federal fraud charges
- How France Lost the Auction Market Battle
- student's query: Museum Security Independent Study
- The Art Newspaper, This week's top stories
- Hussars rode to the rescue of lost masterpiece

* January 12, 2001
- Sotheby's to Cut Jobs
- NEA Hands Out Grants To 67 Local Arts Groups
- Nile threat to ancient Egyptian temples
- Row with architect tarnishes image of Guggenheim
- Ancient cave art faces modern threat
- Sobha Singh's paintings stolen
- Montreal museum joins Nazi art hunt

* January 9, 2001
- Museum guard smuggled out rare coins in his pockets
- Stockholm art heist
- Nazi looting saved art from bombings, gallery director says: Plunder of native works is of
greater concern
- Russia may return £45bn Nazi booty

* January 7, 2001
- Smithsonian Conference Reservation Problems (two messages by Steve Keller)
- eighth person arrested in Stockholm art heist
- Rare Lowry found 8 years after theft
- Greece fights £30m battle of Marathon

* January 6, 2001
- Swedish police arrest sixth suspect in theft of Rembrandt, Renoirs
- Re: The National Conference On Cultural Property Protection
- The Art Newspaper: this week's top stories
- Scandal-hit Sotheby's chief 'ready to sell up'

* January 5, 2001
- Fifth suspect arrested in Stockholm's art heist (and another theft from a Swedish museum)
- National Conference Site back on line
- Museum loophole could save £5m VAT
- Seahenge may be buried
- CURATOR'S DEPARTURE ROCKS TERRA
- query: Controversial Exhibit

* January 4, 2001
- ToC for International Journal of Cultural Property 9-02
- Cooperative disaster preparedness

* January 3, 2001
- SNAKE GODDESSES, FAKE GODDESSES (How forgers on Crete met the demand for
Minoan antiquities)
- Scientists: Army Corps Violated Site
- Museum Provenance List
- Czech Database of Works of Art from the Property of Victims of the Holocaust

* January 2, 2001
- Procession of plunderers erase a cultural history
- Chinese Make a Bid for Own Antiquities Art * Looting, smuggling send their national
treasures worldwide, but patriotism, money bring them home.
- Gallery treasure has mystery past. (Centrepiece of 2001 exhibit has gaps in ownership
during Nazi years. Klimt work included in list posted on Web)
- Artist claims 'ancient' icon is 1940s fake
- Thieves hold £20m paintings to ransom


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