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	<description>A blog about art and security</description>
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		<title>RFID and Art Security</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2012/04/11/rfid-and-art-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following appeared in and is reproduced with the concent of the ARCA Journal. Every year art thefts occur in private and public sites that otherwise have good after-hours security. Increasingly, many such thefts happen during business hours when after-hours security systems have been turned off.[1] RFID (radio frequency identification) tags[2] are touted as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priceless by Robert K Wittman</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/03/29/priceless-by-robert-k-wittman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of recovered treasures is impressive&#8211;400 hand-edited pages of “The Good Earth&#8221; manuscript, an original copy of the Bill of Rights, the Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement, and the headdress that Geronimo wore at his final Pow-Wow&#8211;to name just a few.  Robert K. Whittman founded the FBI’s Art Crime Team. In retirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Buying Art</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/03/16/the-art-of-buying-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Art Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Security is one of many considerations when buying fine art. For a comprehensive take on all aspects, it’s hard to beat The Art of Buying Art by Alan S. Bamberger, noted art expert, author, and syndicated columnist. It’s generally thought to the best and easiest-to-understand book on how to buy, sell, evaluate, appraise, and collect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February: A Bad Month for Home Art Thefts</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/03/11/february-a-bad-month-for-home-art-thefts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NYC Art Theft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theft of artwork from a Southampton, NY home is the second such heist to hit the exclusive enclave in the past month, police have revealed. One or more thieves climbed through a window at a home on Gin Lane sometime between February 14 and 16 and made off with an unknown number of works. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gone Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/10/gone-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fact that is so often overlooked in the art world is that once a painting is stolen it may never be seen again, and unlike many other objects, a piece’s value is its singularity. You can’t replace it. So if the work doesn’t come back to market through a sale or recovery it may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing the Mystic Lamb</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/03/the-worlds-most-stolen-work-of-art/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/03/the-worlds-most-stolen-work-of-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ARCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among all the accolades given to various works of art over the centuries, perhaps none is more unusual than this one: most-stolen. The long-reigning champion is Jan van Eyck’s Ghent’s Altarpiece. The nearly 500-year old painting weighs two tons, and comprises twelve separate panels. As the first piece to demonstrate the versatility of oil painting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARCA 2011 Masters Program</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/03/arca-2011-masters-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes against Art) is accepting applications for its 2011 Masters Program in International Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection Studies. The official deadline for applications for the 2011 MA Program has been extended to January 21, 2011. In certain circumstances ARCA will consider late applications. This program provides in-depth, Masters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Art Theft</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/03/nyc-art-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/03/nyc-art-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Home Art Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brazen theft of iconoclastic paintings from a well-secured New York City building has highlighted the need for additional measures to protect hanging art. Police estimated that thieves made off with $750,000 worth of watches, jewelry, and works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others. The thieves bypassed several state-of-the-art security measures to get into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restuarant Art Theft</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/02/restuarant-art-theft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/02/restuarant-art-theft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few people think of restaurants as targets for art theft. This recent press note caught our eye. Noted Pleasanton (CA) artist Charlotte Severin said yesterday that three of her five original paintings were stolen from the front lobby of the Pleasanton Hotel restaurant Dec. 30. She estimated the value of the three paintings at $2,000. The theft, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Protecting Religious Art and Anomoly?</title>
		<link>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/02/is-protecting-religious-art-and-anomoly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artguard.net/blog/2011/02/02/is-protecting-religious-art-and-anomoly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art Theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Churches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There has been more than the usual number of articles about church theft in the past few years. This leads us to believe that theft of religious artifacts around the world is up considerably, because, like all art theft, what is reported is a fraction of what occurs. This may be particularly true because of [...]]]></description>
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