Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norway. Show all posts
September 3, 2021

Norwegian police seize artefacts from the Martin Schøyen collection

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Weekly Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet has reported that members of the Norwegian Economic Crimes Unit, working in coordination with the Øk...
August 24, 2017

Theft: The Universitetet i Bergen posts photos of stolen objects to Flickr

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The  Universitetet i Bergen has begun uploading images to Flickr of the approximately 400 objects stolen from the University Museum of Berg...
January 28, 2014

Norway: Fire Damaged the village of Lærdalsøyri, part of UNESCO's World Heritage listed West Norwegian Fjord landscape

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Borgund Stavkirke , an old church by A.M.C Knutsson At 11 pm on Saturday the 18 th of January a fire erupted in the village of Læ...
May 10, 2013

Norway Celebrates 150 Anniversary of Munch's birth; BBC Broadcast Interviewed Charley Hill last February on the Successful Return of The Scream in 1994

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Celebrating the 150 anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch, the National Museum and Munch Museum in Norway will exhibit more than 200 o...
March 1, 2013

Coverage of the first Conference on Protection of Cultural Property in Asia (15-18 February 2013, Thimphu, Bhutan)

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Snowy entrance to convention center in Thimphu, Bhutan By Julia Brennan, ARCA Alum 2009 Part I The Royal Gove...
January 15, 2013

Norwegian police suspect Irish Travellers of Stealing Chinese Artifacts from the West Norway Museum of Decorative Arts in Bergen last week

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Maeve Sheehan , a contributing writer for Irish Independent , reports in Irish Traveller gang linked to audacious Norway art heist that...
May 8, 2012

Art Crime in Film: Jø Nesbo's "Headhunter" steals art from corporate executives looking for new jobs

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Here's another example of how an art thief is portrayed in a movie. The 2011 Swedish film " Headhunter " (the English ti...
December 6, 2011

Post from Norway: Kvalheim accused of selling fake Hamsun and Ibsen documents

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by Therese Veier, ARCA Blog Norwegian Correspondent Geir Ove Kvalheim has been indicted by Økokrim, Norway’s art crime unit, accused of com...
November 28, 2011

Post from Norway: Unknown Rubens work hung on the wall for 80 years at National Museum

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Photo from National Museum By Therese Veier, ARCA Blog Norwegian Correspondent It has just been discovered that a very valuable work,  b...
October 11, 2011

Post from Norway: Odd Nerdrum Denied Painting Privileges (Part III)

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by Therese Veier As to the issue of denying Nerdrum to paint, convicts in Norway are usually encouraged to paint or take art classes during...
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