Curator & Collector

A Blog about the Art, Museums, and Numismatics of the Northwest Coast

Archive for May, 2008

Bill Reid Gold Artworks Stolen from Museum (Updated)

Posted: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 @ 8:20 am in Art Heists, Bill Reid, Canadian Art, Canadian Paper Money, Canadians in the Arts, Cultural Patrimony, Museums & Galleries, News, Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art, Numismatics, Storage Issues | 3 Comments »

CBC Image of stolen Bill Reid gold artwork UPDATED (Original post below): CBC has learned disturbing details about the art heist of the Bill Reid artworks at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. Chiefest among them: -several cameras mysteriously “went offline” four hours before the incident -when the cameras went offline, an alarm was tripped, but nothing [...]

A Plug for a Friend

Posted: Monday, May 26th, 2008 @ 10:18 pm in Personal | No Comments »

A good friend A good friend of mine, Kevin Kim, (the one who created the image at the top of my sidebar) stopped by today on his way from Washington DC to Washington State. Kevin’s goal is to walk across the continental United States from west to east as he seeks to learn about the [...]