http://museum-security.org/ subscribe: http://museum-security.org/formeng.html * 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 __________________________________________ http://museum-security.org/ The Museum Security Network is a not-for-profit free service. subscribe: http://museum-security.org/formengl.html latest news: http://museum-security.org/latest.html ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).