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Victoria and Albert Museum in London Displaying Forged Art & Antiquities: http://tinyurl.com/yc45cxg
meg_gibson (Meg Gibson) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:23:13 -0000
Victoria and Albert Museum in London Displaying Forged Art & Antiquities: http://tinyurl.com/yc45cxg
Forged art and antiquities worth £4 million will be displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. - http://bit.ly/5xy3v4
toncremers (Ton Cremers) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:29:11 -0000
Forged art and antiquities worth £4 million will be displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. - http://bit.ly/5xy3v4
Faked art worth £4 million to be shown at V&A: Confiscated forged art and antiquities worth £4 million to go o.. http://bit.ly/7JoVJB
Ianmurphyartist (Ian Murphy) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:27:16 -0000
Faked art worth £4 million to be shown at V&A: Confiscated forged art and antiquities worth £4 million to go o.. http://bit.ly/7JoVJB

 

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Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich - Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus
Meta Description: [ Looters stripped churches in Cyprus, removing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 icons; several dozen major frescoes and mosaics dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century; and thousands of chalices, wooden carvings, crucifixes, and Bibles. ]

BBC: Stolen Turner Paintings Found - Two Turner paintings from the Tate galleries' collection, stolen while on display in Germany eight years ago, are found.
Meta Description: [ Two Turner paintings from the Tate galleries' collection, stolen while on display in Germany eight years ago, are found. ]

Britain Leads Illicit Trade in Rare Books - The Guardian reports that Britain has become the centre for criminal traffick in ancient manuscripts and historic books.

CBC Indepth: Art Thefts - Indepth examination of some of the world's most famous artworks that have been stolen, including audio and video links to reports.

Find Stolen Art - Database aiming to assist UK police in the recovery and return of stolen antiques and to enable auction houses, collectors and dealers to exercise due diligence.
Meta Description: [ Online database of Stolen, Lost and Recovered Art and antiques. ]

Gang Caught with 200,000 Artefacts - Giles Tremlett reports in the Guardian that Spanish police have captured 100 archaeological robbers in an operation that netted a vast haul of antiques up to 5,000 years old.

Holy Door of the Monastery of St. Anastassios - Human Rights Action pleads with the Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan to return an 11th-century iconic door looted from Cyprus. Includes photograph.
Meta Description: [ hr-action.org ]

Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) - At University of Cambridge to research and highlight damage caused by looting of archaeological sites. Publishes periodical Culture Without Context. Information on latest news, events, information, legal conventions, resources.
Meta Description: [ reseaching and reporting illicit antiquities ]

International Archive of Stolen Artefacts - A database with close-up photographs of objects. An independent resource dedicated to the retrieval of stolen artefacts through maximum publicity.
Meta Description: [ IASA-Online.com is a centralized visual archive of stolen valuables. ]

Looting Matters - Studies by Christopher Chippindale and David Gill of the University of Wales Swansea on the material and intellectual consequences of collecting antiquities, with related links.

Looting Question Bibliography - Hugh Jarvis lists Internet and published resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting.

Museum Security Network: Art Crime - News reports of cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire and forgery worldwide.

NYTimes.com - Thwarting Art Thieves on a Budget - Discusses problems of art theft during business hours and how museums and other facilities have responded.

500 Object ID - Site describes rationale, use and contacts for Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to combat theft.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the website of Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to help combat theft ]

Price of Age - An electronic dissertation on the illicit trade of antiquities by Andrew Cranwell.

Saving Futures - Charlie Phillips investigates issues of cultural heritage management and preservation in India and Nepal through interviews nad research.

Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft - Librarian provides a bibliography and list of Internet resources on theft of antiquities.

404 Stolen Antiquities from Corinth Return to Greece - The Hellenic Ministry of Culture rejoices in the recovery of the priceless collection of artifacts stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth in 1990. Illustrated catalogue.

500 Stolen Art - This Belgian initiative aims to assist the police in Belgium and elsewhere in the recovery and return of stolen antiques. Register stolen art pieces. Newsletters.

Stolen Property or Finders Keepers? - Dede Tisone-Bartels provides teacher's resources for considering the true ownership of works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world.
Meta Description: [ A Problem Based Learning Lesson about the true ownership of valuable works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world ]

Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh - Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite.
Meta Description: [ Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the 1991 Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite ]

Swiss Recover 10,000 Stolen Antiquities - Archaeology magazine feature article by Andrew Slayman on one of the largest recoveries of stolen art treasures.
Meta Description: [ In early 1996, Swiss police raided four bonded warehouses in Geneva containing 10,000 artifacts, most of them probably smuggled from Italy, valued at $35 million, one of the largest antiquities seizures ever. ]

500 The 2003- Iraq War and Archaeology - Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting.

The Art Loss Register - Operates a permanent international database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables, to assist law enforcement agencies in the battle against art theft.

500 Trace - UK magazine in which stolen stolen art, antiques, collectables can be advertised. Or register their details on the ACTS database. Service, bulletin, becoming a partner, information resources.