Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Suzan Mazur for InfoPages here.
Suzan Mazur - Latest News [Page 6]
Suzan Mazur: It Has Happened Here
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 10:23 am | Suzan Mazur
With the dismantling of security states there is generally a toppling of the symbol of the reign of terror. America’s emblem has come to be the surveillance camera, which exploded on the US landscape as the PATRIOT Act began the usurping of precious ... More >>
Mazur: Italy's List Of Ancient Treasures At Clevel
Sunday, 22 April 2007, 8:37 pm | Suzan Mazur
Cleveland Museum representatives met in Rome on Friday with Italy’s ministry of culture to discuss a list of dozens -- yes dozens -- of pieces of Italy’s cultural patrimony now part of the museum’s hoard. More >>
McNall On Hecht & Collapse Of Antiquities Market
Saturday, 20 January 2007, 6:54 pm | Suzan Mazur
Speaking with film producer Bruce McNall - who brought us WarGames with Matthew Broderick and Summa Gallery with antiquities' Bob Hecht - reminded me of my first conversation with Malcolm Forbes. At the time Forbes was dubbed "the happiest millionaire". More >>
Mazur: Hecht's Partner On The Roman Bronze Boy
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:58 pm | Suzan Mazur
"Where's Bruce McNall?" It was the question on everyone's lips at the June 1990 Sotheby's auction in New York of the Hunt antiquities, which McNall had sold to brothers Bunker and Herbert -- and again in November at the New York Hesperia Arts sale. The Hesperia ... More >>
Interview: Italy's Antiquities Prosecutor Fiorilli
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:33 pm | Suzan Mazur
Italy's antiquities prosecutor, Maurizio Fiorilli, has become the darling of the media in the past year helping to persuade the American public, and particularly the art world, to rethink the ethics of holding onto Italy's cultural patrimony with ... More >>
The Odyssey Of Stuart Pivar's Roman Bronze Boy
Friday, 22 December 2006, 11:02 am | Suzan Mazur
New York collector Stuart Pivar says the odyssey of his "nearly life-size" Roman bronze boy includes a chapter on an attempted "assassination" of the statue. He identifies the place of treachery as the Hunt-Sotheby's auction, June 19,1990. And he fingers ... More >>
Mazur: John Deuss Oil Trader Max Bernegger Speaks
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:12 pm | Suzan Mazur
I remember Max Bernegger's disarming smile the day he walked through the doors at Alexandra Christie, the 1970s fashion company owned by Dutch oil trader John Deuss -- where I was the model. More >>
Mazur: John Deuss' Editors On Record On The Man
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 4:06 pm | Suzan Mazur
THE HUSH HUSH nature of the John Deuss investigation related to VAT-skimming deposits at his offshore First Curacao International Bank gives the impression that deeper politics are at play. More >>
Krumpets With Medici Conspiracy's Peter Watson
Monday, 20 November 2006, 8:36 pm | Suzan Mazur
The Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side was the designated meeting spot, in the bar made famous by Ludwig Bemelman's mural of Manhattan, Carlyle's very own Euphronios masterpiece. Bemelman's was packed at 5:30, and I ran into US News & World ... More >>
Hicham Aboutaam: "It Is Good To Be Scrutinized"
Tuesday, 14 November 2006, 11:56 am | Suzan Mazur
With a searing ancient Near East focus, Hicham Aboutaam, the 30ish Lebanese antiquities dealer sweeps into the back of his Phoenix gallery showroom in Manhattan to greet me. He is dressed in French elegance, his handshake somewhat reserved. I later notice ... More >>
The Rescue Of Deuss' Visionary Canterbury Tales
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:07 pm | Suzan Mazur
John Deuss, multi-millionaire Dutch oil man and, until recently, chairman of Bermuda Commercial Bank, is being questioned in his native Netherlands about "carousel" financial irregularities involving his Curacao bank. So what, you would be pardoned for asking, ... More >>
Why Has John Deuss Offshore Bank Been Singled Out?
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 2:53 pm | Suzan Mazur
THE QUESTION IS WHY has Dutch businessman John Deuss' offshore First Curacao International Bank (FCIB) been singled out over the issue of VAT on mobile phone sales deposited at FCIB -- which mushroomed over the last two years from $60 million to billions ... More >>
Italy Will Contest Medea Vase At Cleveland Museum
Monday, 9 October 2006, 4:42 pm | Suzan Mazur
Cleveland Museum's antiquities officials have failed to respond to my email request for information as to how the museum acquired the South Italian Medea vase in 1991 recently cited on this page Cleveland's Got Prized South Italian Medea Vase . The ... More >>
DC & Int'l Officers Clubs For Trysting Politicians
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 11:30 pm | Suzan Mazur
The current sex scandal involving former Congressman Mark Foley (Rep.-FL)begs the question: Just where do Washington politicians and US military seeking private trysting spots -- free of pesky media and routine security questions -- continue to find them? More >>
Cleveland's Got Prized South Italian Medea Vase
Monday, 25 September 2006, 5:04 pm | Suzan Mazur
After an online search for the whereabouts of the fabulous "Medea in Flight" vase featured in my recent story about artifacts Italy wants back from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts , it appears that the Red-figure Calyx Krater, 5th/early 4th Century ... More >>
Ancient Art Italy Wants Back From Boston's MFA
Friday, 15 September 2006, 5:35 pm | Suzan Mazur
With Boston's Museum of Fine Arts nearing an accord with Italy over its collection of classical art acquired primarily from Italy both before and after the1983 UNESCO curb on antiquities trafficking - I thought it might be interesting to revisit a ... More >>
Add NYT To Bob Hecht Antiquities Ring Organigram?
Thursday, 17 August 2006, 8:53 am | Suzan Mazur
While various American antiquities dealers, curators and collectors are "subjects of interest" of Italian and Greek prosecutors who, in the last year, particularly, have opened the floodgates for the return of their countries' cultural patrimony ... More >>
Women, Sexual Politics & the American Dream
Monday, 31 July 2006, 8:44 pm | Suzan Mazur
With the dramatic lowering of the competency bar in the Bush II Presidency, no one can say any longer that American women are unqualified to govern. Still the issue of how to get a critical mass of women in public office -- so crucial to America ... More >>
"Bully Bob" Hecht And The Euphronios Questions
Friday, 7 July 2006, 2:15 pm | Suzan Mazur
"Bully Bob" Hecht is best known for escorting Italy's priceless Sarpedon Euphronios vase to the US in 1972 and selling it for personal profit to a private museum that gets public funding -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art; his price was $1million. Hecht ... More >>
Comic Michael O'Donoghue on the "End of the World"
Friday, 16 June 2006, 7:28 pm | Suzan Mazur
As the Bush administration inches closer and closer to resembling a "cheap, sleazy" science fiction movie from the 1950s, I'm reminded of a conversation I had in New York with late Saturday Night Live comic Michael O'Donoghue about that very subject. ... More >>
