http://publicartonline.net/stolen Keep informed on public art theft. Who's stealing for scrap metal and who isn't! Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:26:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Theodore Sprague and his oars have been ripped from his bronze canoe and stolen in yet another attack on public art. The $14,000 memorial has been in Corning's Centennial Park since 2004 and depicted the well known businessman rowing a canoe on the Chemung River. It was his son who ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/man-overboard/2008/08/28/ The Wild Oak Saddle Club in Santa Rosa are dumb founded as to why someone would steal their 500lb bronze statue of a cowboy roping a steer.The statue , which is estimated to be worth $100,000, was taken from the front of the club on Tuesday.Money for metal is the ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/cowboy-statue-goes-missing-in-santa-rosa/2008/08/22/ Japan is having its fair share of Buddha statue thefts. Nine in a month to be exact. It seems they have a shifty little thief who is swapping them with fakes, in the hope they won't be discovered missing (hmm smart). The statues, all of Buddha, have been stolen from ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/buddha-statues-go-missing-in-japan/2008/08/21/ What is the world coming to when thieves start stealing policeman statues. It seems the 600lb bronze statue of a policeman issuing a ticket outside Macy's in Stamford, Connecticut, has been stolen. The statue worth $120,000 was called "Time's Up" (ironic, isn't it?).A city spokesman said "they hope whoever took ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/bronze-policeman-statue-stolen/2008/08/21/ Heartless thieves have stolen a Haslingden sculpture created by children from a special school. The 7ft statue known as "The Workers" was created by pupils at Tor View Community Special School in Haslingden, North West England. The three "match stick" people were made from tubular steel pieces leading many to ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/heartless-thieves/2008/08/20/ Williams Hardwood Flooring company are offering a $500 for the "two white males" caught on security cameras breaking the arm off their wooden sculpture of a carpenter. Watch out boys, they are none too pleased. A spokesman for the Akron, Ohio company stated "The reward is not for the arm, ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/arm-of-sculpture-taken/2008/08/19/ A wooden statue of the goddess Kannon was stolen from a local temple last month only to find itself being passed around like a hot sweet potato. The "Senju Kannon" (Thousand-armed Kannon) statue, which was made during the Muromachi Period (1336-1573), was quite happily sitting in the Hozoji Temple's Kannon ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/senju-kannon-statue-stolen/2008/08/18/ Alas, it isn't Ace but the the Ventura Police Department on the case when a missing Bee sculpture was stolen from a fair at the Ventura County Fairground on the 15th August, 2008. The 20 inch bronze sculpted by Chris Provenzano simply vanished ( could it be another case of ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/bee-sculpture-stolen-from-fair/2008/08/16/ A stolen bronze statue by sculptor J. Steward Johnson Jr.was recovered by Vancouver police. The popular bronze was stolen in June from Queen Elizabeth Park, with fears it was going to end up as scrap metal. Police had pre-empted that the thief/thieves would be heading for the scrap metal yards ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/police-pre-empt-scrap-metal-thieves/2008/08/14/ A 6ft, 200lb, mud caked fiberglass Elvis has been returned to the Cool and Eclectic Furniture and Fashions store, by two teenagers who found it in a wooded area of Alanton, Virginia Beach. The King (or what was left of him) was in three pieces. Those involved in the theft ... http://publicartonline.net/stolen/fiberglass-elvis-returns-in-three-pieces/2008/08/14/