Art Heist

Damaged Cezanne Painting Can Be Restored

AP | Posted 04.27.2012

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GENEVA — A Swiss art expert says a $110 million painting by Paul Cezanne damaged following a robbery four years ago can be restored. The direct...

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Chinese Artifacts Stolen From UK Museum

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Art Crime, Art Theft, Theft, Cambridge Art Heist, Art Heist, Arts News

LONDON — British police say 18 rare and mostly jade Chinese artifacts have been stolen from Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridg...

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Prolific Forger And Guy Who Caught Him Team Up For Exhibition

Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Video, Mark Landis, Art Heist, Aaron Cowan, April Fools Day, Forgery, Slidepollajax, Matthew Leininger, Heist, Signac, University-of-Cincinnati-Museum, Fake, Fake Art, Picasso Fake, Arts News

It's not easy to be a famous artist, but it also sure isn't easy to paint like one. That is why we are so pleased to hear about the "Faux Real" exhibi...

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Will The Largest Art Heist In History Finally Be Solved?

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Art Heist, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Largest Art Heist, Art, Stolen Art, Robert Gentile, Culture News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- It remains the largest art heist in history, a brazen robbery in which two thieves disguised as police officers walked into Boston...

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New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Robert Scott Cook, Auguste Renoir, Art Heist, Fine Art, Art Crimes, Picasso, Matisse, Art Dealer Charged, Henri Matisse, Fraud, Video, Art Fraud, Art Controversy, Pablo Picasso, Llc., Renoir, Arts News

NEW YORK — A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the o...

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Hotel Wants You To Steal A Banksy... And Keep It

Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Art Promotion, Stealing Art, Art Heist, Art Series Hotel, Street Art, Art Challenge, Picasso, Melbourne, Banksy, Arts News

Most hotels will charge you an arm and a leg if you slip off the premises with one of their cheap, fuzzy robes, so why are they offering a Banksy work...

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$140 Million In Stolen Masterpieces Tossed In The Garbage?

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Art Heist, Modern Art, Braque, Destroyed Art, Art Theft, Georges Braque, Garbage Art, Modigliani, Picasso, Heist, UK Arts, Leger, Matisse, Art Scandal, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Arts News

It was the perfect heist: sleeping museum guards, a broken alarm system, $140 million in loot, a police hunt that lasted over a year... there was just...

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Art Fair Survey Results; Art Heists; An Ode to Art Supplies

Jane Chafin | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: The Gardner Heist, Art Fairs, Art Heist, Not for Profits, Rembrandt, Museums, Art Supplies, Rembrandt Stolen, Arts News

Even though I haven't been a practicing artist for a long time, my pulse still quickens when I walk into an art supply store or get the Utrect catalog in the mail. Remember the excitement of getting that first box of 64 Crayola crayons?

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Stolen Rembrandt Recovered

AP/The Huffington Post | By ROBERT JABLON and THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.16.2011

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MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- It wasn't some bold theft carried out by burglars breaking into a heavily-fortified museum with high-tech alarms to swipe a ...

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Does Stealing A Rembrant Pay Off?

AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Fame, Stealing Rembrandts, Art Heists, Art Heist, Art, Art World, Money, Crime, Associated Press, Book Reviews, Art Crimes, Rembrandt, Power, Stolen Art, Stealing a Rembrandt, Arts News

-- "Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg: In 1997, a gang of c...

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WATCH: STOLEN ART: What Do Thieves Do With Stolen Art?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Market, Art, Times London, New York, Lichtenstein, Paintings, Cnn, Art Loss Register, Christopher Marinello, Warhol, Superman, Prints, Stolen Art, Art Heist, Video, Arts News

What do thieves do with art once they've stolen it? This is one of the key questions asked in this CNN interview with Chris Marinello from The Art Los...

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Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum

AP | ERNST E. ABEGG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Heist, E.G. Buehrle Collection, Claude Monet, Monet, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Swiss Museums, European Museums, Zurich Museums, Art Robbers, Paul Cezanne, Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Degas, Business News

ZURICH, Switzerland — Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the bui...

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