Stolen Art Alert

The Museum of the University of Pennsylvania closed some galleries to upgrade security after three thefts; Brookgreen Gardens at Murrells Inlet, South Carolina lost three statues; and a bronze medallion was stolen from the base of the Thorvaldsen Monument in Central Park, New York

Guatemalan rebels attacked the Mayan site of Tikal, killing two visitors, burning the museum laboratory and taking nine jades from the museum.

Canadian John Hellson sentenced for removing around 200 objects from Lowie anthropology museum at the University of California, Berkeley.

Alfred Aletto is convicted of smuggling a 16th-century Flemish tapestry, Tiberius Imperator, from Rome.