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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:55:03 +0000
Subject: art crime reports..
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Following is a selection of additions to the Museum Security Website.
The Art Crime Reports page is growing steadily. We really would
appreciate your cooperation in sending your reports. Do not hesitate
to send any information about incidents in you museum, library, or
cultural institution. We have been collecting information for a
little over one month. With your help the
http://museum-security.org/artcrime.html page will become a true
source of information about cultural property incidents the world
over and will be of help if you need to convince your management to
provide funds to keep your security and safety systems up to date.
latest additions:
Collectors blamed for looted antiquities, March 13, 1997 Turner
painting stolen in Australia worth $3 million, March 7, 1997 Egypt
checks for Sinai antiquity thefts, March 11 1997 Gunman takes
£700,000 Picasso; March 7, 1997 Iraq Battles Against Archaeological
Theft Art forgeries ring in northern Italy smashed by police, March
1, 1997 Rare book disappears from Oxford college; Feb 26, 1997
Paintings damaged in Ghent, Belgium; Feb 25, 1997 Theft KLIMT
painting not discovered for several days!! 24 Feb 1997 MUSEUM
SECURITY MAILINGLIST DIGEST (20 Feb 1997)
Egypt convicts 3 Britons on smuggling (16 Feb 97)
Audit Say French Art Missing (15 Feb 97)
Thieves get $1.3 million in Brussels art robbery (14 Feb 1997)
Russia's New Rich Snap Up Art (18 Feb 1997)
Spaniard pleads in Harvard book thefts (18 Feb 1997)
Pulp Magazines Missing (19 Feb 1997)
RESEARCH centre to fight the illicit trade in antiquities, February
12, 1997 Trade in the arts 'mired in fraud' , February 11, 1997
SOTHEBY'S announced a far-reaching review of its procedures February
11, 1997 Specimen theft, February 1997 Malevich painting damaged
Amsterdam, continued, January 1997 Malevich painting damaged in
Amsterdam, january 1997 vandalizing contemporary works of art by
publically vomiting on them Egyptian antiquities in chaos smuggled
art treasures from Italy to Britain FBI Probing Fake Art Art
Auctioneer Accused Trader Admits Rare Shell Theft
The Risk Map of Cultural Heritage
a project promoted by the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR) in
line with a research project stemming from Brandi's notion of
preventive restoration, and developing through Giovanni Urbani's
reflections on programmed manitenance. The central idea upon the "Risk
Map" is based on the development of systems and methods enabling
maintenance and restoration programs for architectural, archaeological
and historical-artistic items with regard to their respective
conditions and the harsness of the environment where they are
situated. The word "programming" is used in its literal meaning of
obtaining useful information to predict, and thus to decide in
advance, wich measures have to be taken most urgently, with regard to
both the time necessary for execution, and to inherent expenses, in
order to avoid losses and damage. This requirement is all the more
urgent when we consider the major importance of Italian cultural
heritage, as well as the lack of financial means available for its
preservation and the resulting duty of using all available resources
to their ulmost and overcoming a constant state of emergency. By the
time the project is finished, new tools of knowledge and new methods
of analysis will be available to the central and local administrations
of cultural heritage, which help control and monitoring the condition
of cultural heritage in order to manage and optimize conservation
measures.
Stolen Art & Antiques (Maine Antique Digest)
John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks
(As a consultant I have been helping owners, tradespeople, contractors
and architects understand and maintain their historic buildings for 13
years. I have been restoring historic buildings in New England for 25
years and still spend a good part of my time "with hammer in hand". I
have written on restoration and preservation topics for Fine
Homebuilding, The Journal of Light Construction, The Old-House Journal
and other national publications. I'm now a Contributing Editor with
The Old-House Journal and recently was revisions editor for MacMillan
on the noted Audel Carpenter's and Builder's Library. ) John Leeke,
Preservation Consultant 26 Higgins St., Portland, ME 04103, USA 207
773-2306 A series of massive weather fronts blasted across North
America in late January 1997 resulting in significant loss of life and
property due to snow blizards, heavy rains and flooding. Record low
temperatures and high snow falls were recorded. Floods continue to
threaten as the early spring snow melts creat ice jams along waterways
throughout the north. Many historic sites were flooded in the
northwest (Oregon and Washington State), as well as along the eastern
seaboard (Maryland and Washington, DC). This site has been hastily
erected to provide pointers to information on recovering from flood
and storm damage to older and historic buildings. The following
listings were developed during my research for the Wind & Water
Project. This project studied flood and storm damage to historic
buildings in Alabama and Georgia caused by Tropical Storm Alberto,
July 1994. The studies and workshops were done during 1995. Three
booklets, Prevention, Response and Recovery are now being reviewed and
revised, their publication will be announced here at Historic
HomeWorks.
- Instituut voor Conservatie en Restauratie
(Institute for Conservation and Restoration)
Zwartezusterstraat 34, B-9000 Gent, tel. (+32)9.2254290, fax.
(+32)9.2234636 - Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie
(Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology): working party on
industrial and technical museums P.O. Box 30, B-9000 Gent-12, tel.
(+32)56.253373, fax. (+32)56.255173 [log in to unmask]
Art Business Magazine
for artists and arts workers. Culture. Art. Marketing. Sales. Art
History. Economics. Art Business Services.... Updated weekly. Open
submissions policy. All articles copyright their respective authors
who may be reached through Art Business Magazine.
Trace
Trace magazine was inaugurated in 1990 and in its 6 year existence has
been linked to the recovery of Fine Art, Antiques and Antiquities
valued in excess of £25 million pounds. Circulation is some 20,000
each month to 170 countries around the world. Articles & editorials
cover such topics as due diligence, security and insurance with
specialist contributions from experts and organizations involved in
the recovery of stolen art. Contributors news and services are also
featured. The Police Recoveries section details recoveries made by the
police The TRACER section details stolen items with an image and brief
description.
Lessons from the Denney Collection
Artnet Web
Russian Museums on the WWW
Index of Resources for Historians
Index maintained jointly by the Department of History of the
University of Kansas and the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche
Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg; managed by Eric
Marzo of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas. The index consists
of a single large file (approximately 185 Kb) offering over 1700
connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name.
Art Museum Network
A most beautifull site; very attractive specimen of HTML *art*.
Museums Association - Security guidelines when using outside
contractors
The Museum Association Security Committee (MASC) considers new UL
Standards
NATO- Partnership for Peace (PfP) Conference on Cultural Heritage
Protection in Wartime and in State of Emergency
Top Ten Representative Losses of Cultural Property Caused by
Humankind
City University London
Home Page of City University's Department of Arts Policy and
Management - Europe's largest interdisciplinary centre for arts,
museums and heritage policy and management studies and research,
housed above London's Barbican Arts Centre. In addition to detailed
information about the Department and its work, this World Wide Web
site offers access to a range of around 30 more original documents
about many aspects of cultural policy and management, and links to
over 180 other relevant Web sites and policy etc. documents.
ARITECH
ARITECH ist einer der größten Hersteller und Lieferanten von
Sicherheitssystemen in Europa. Unsere marktführende Position gründet
sich auf 30 Jahre Erfahrung. Begonnen haben wir als Hersteller von
Bewegungsmeldern für militärische Zwecke. Heute entwickeln,
produzieren und vertreiben wir hochmoderne Systeme im Bereich Brand-
und Einbruchschutz.
Promat Fire Protection
For around 40 years, Promat structural fire protection has stood for
safety technology. Fire threatens and kills human beings, destroys
huge material assets and also leads to expensive production stoppages
and high costs for consequential damage.
Thomas Investigative Publications, Inc.
Private Investigator's Book Store, National Association Of
Investigative Specialists, Free Searches On The Internet, 100
Newsletter Articles, Investigative Equipment, Investigative Training,
Web Page Design, Locate A Private Investigator.
National Security Archive
The second Archive publication project has produced a series of large
microform collections of documents on U.S. foreign policy as well as a
CD-ROM index to the entire series co-published by the scholarly
micropublisher Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. These collections include an
average of 16,000 pages of documents released through the FOIA and
other governmental processes, accompanied by finding aids which
average over 1,700 pages for each collection--indices, catalogs,
chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies and introductory essays. More
than 350 copies of these microfiche collections have been purchased by
universities and research libraries and in ten foreign countries.
Microform Review stated, "The NSA series is unusual in public document
publishing... it makes documents available from the twilight zone
between currently released government information, and normal
declassification after the elapse of the statutory period." Government
Publications Review wrote that "NSA collections are almost universally
praised for adding a new and invaluable research tool to national
security studies." Other reviews in the library press have noted the
collections' comprehensive coverage, user-friendly guides,
state-of-the-art indexing and quality archival microfiche.
ITEM
an international searchable text and image database detailing
hypermedia publications and resources about the visual arts, including
museum and art gallery image databases. ITEM (Image TEchnology in
Museums and art galleries) is an international resource of information
about the planned and implemented uses, world-wide, of image databases
and interactive multimedia intended to further the accessibility,
knowledge and interest in European and world cultural heritage,
particularly in relation to the visual arts (including photographs),
museums, architecture and archaeology. ITEM collects and disseminates
descriptive text (in English and language of original production) and
technical information (in English only), together with production and
publisher contact names and addresses relating to projects under
development and completed published or museum-resident image database
and interactive multimedia projects. These include projects developed
by museums, cultural authorities and others for use as internal
management and/or public point-of- information resources, projects
that have been developed from these resources for subsequent
publication and projects that have been designed from the outset
specifically for commercial publication. ITEM has subscribers in 22
countries world-wide, who include Museums, Universities, Libraries,
Cultural Authorities, information managers, IT Developers and
researchers. ITEM has since January 1991 has been published in
hardcopy (text only) twice yearly by IVAIN (International Visual Arts
Information Network, a not-for-profit organisation) in association
with CIDOC (the Documentation Committee of the International Council
of Museums).
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