Art Theft

Duo Arrested For Stealing Chinese Artifacts

AP | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Jade, Chinese Artifacts, Video, Fitzwilliam Museum, Art, Crime, Cambridgeshire, Ming Jade Cup, Art Theft, Crimewatch, Cambridge, China, Arts News

LONDON — Police in Britain have made a total of six arrests in connection with the theft of valuable Chinese artifacts from two university museu...

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'Steal This Art' Painting Stolen... Again

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Art Crime, Video, Momenta Gallery, Steal This Art, Adam Simon, Art Pranks, Steal This Book, Yippie, Art Theft, Brooklyn Art, Abbie Hoffman, Arts News

Many artists dream of having their artworks truly speak to their viewers. Yet it seems artist Adam Simon wishes his works were not so convincing. His ...

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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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Painting Believed To Be A Stolen Cezanne Found

AP | DUSAN STOJANOVIC | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: E. G. Buhrle Collection, Video, Cezanne, Crime, Boy in the Red Vest, Serbia, Art Theft, Museum Raid, Robbery, Zurich, Paul Cezanne, Painting, Arts News

BELGRADE, Serbia — Police from Serbia and Switzerland have recovered a Paul Cezanne masterpiece that was stolen from a Swiss museum in 2008 and ...

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A 'Significant Discovery' In Hitler Art Theft Case

AP | JAMIE STENGLE | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Video, National Archives, Nazi Art, Nazi Art Theft, Hitler Art, u.s. National Archives, Hitler Art Theft, Art Theft, National Archives Nazi Art, Culture News

DALLAS — Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticul...

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Man Gets Prison For A Wild Art-theft Spree

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Wine Steward, Art Thief, Crime, Prison, Carlyle Hotel, Art Theft, Jail, Mark Lugo, Picasso, Hotel Theft, Fernand Leger, New York, Arts News

NEW YORK — A wine steward who served time in California after going on a bicoastal binge of plucking pricey art off gallery walls and using it t...

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Olympia Museum Theft Worse Than Originally Reported

AP | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Olympia Museum, Greece, Robberies, Museums, Art Theft, Greece Museum, Olympia Museum Theft, Greece Museum Theft, Olympia Museum Robbery, Olympia, Greek Museum Robbery, Greek Museum Theft, Culture News

ATHENS, Greece — Police in Greece say 77 artifacts were stolen by armed robbers last week at a small museum in Ancient Olympia – the birth...

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Who Is The Most Stolen Artist?

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Video, Picasso Art Theft, Art Loss Register, Art Theft, Art Crimes, Picasso, International-Art-Theft, Arts News

In a recent list the Art Loss Register compiled, Picasso ranks as the current 'most stolen' artist. In total, 1,147 of his paintings have gone missing...

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You'll Never Believe How This Art Theft Went Down!

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Matter Gallery, Video, Picasso Art Theft, Jerry Williamson, Olympia Police Department, Art Theft, Jud Turner, Robbery, Olympia-Washington, Olympia, Theft, Arts News

In a scene straight out of the movies, thieves stole two artworks from a gallery in Olympia, Washington over the weekend. Though the art world has see...

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How Thieves Stole Priceless Paintings And Got Away With It

Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Piet Mondrian, Mondrian, Guglielmo Caccia, Video, Art Black Market, Greek National Gallery, Piet Mondrian Theft, Pablo Picasso, Art Theft, Black Market, Picasso, Museum Theft, Greek National Gallery Theft, Picasso Theft, Arts News

Thieves broke into Greece's National gallery early Monday morning and stole three works of art, including a Picasso and a Mondrian. Picasso's 1939 ...

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WATCH: Colette Accuses Lady Gaga of Stealing Her Ideas

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Stealing Ideas, Rihanna, Video, Art, Gaga, Art Theft, Lady GaGa, Performance Art, Colette, Barneys, Arts News

Colette Justine, the legendary downtown performance artist who often simply goes by "Colette," is accusing Lady Gaga of stealing her ideas in a new vi...

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4 Czech Masterpieces: Mysteriously Stolen, Mysteriously Found

Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Art Theft, Emil Filla Paintings Stolen, Emil Filla Paintings Found, Stolen Czech Paintings Recovered, Emil Filla Paintings Recovered, Emil Filla Stolen Paintings, Culture News

PRAGUE (Associated Press) -- Czech police say they have found four valuable paintings by Czech cubist artist Emil Filla that were stolen last month fr...

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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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PHOTOS: Nearly Everything Exhibited At The Ivory Coast's National Museum Stolen

AP | By LAURA BURKE | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Art Theft, Ivory Coast Travel, Ivory Coast, Africa Travel, Museums, Travel News

Laura Burke, Associated Press ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Looters stormed Ivory Coast's national museum during the country's bloody political crisis ea...

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Stolen Rembrant Mystery Deepens

AP | By JOHN ROGERS | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: The Judgement, Fake Rembrandt, Rembrant, Stolen Rembrandt Painting, Rembrandt Fake, Drawing, Art Theft, Stolen Painting, Rembrandt the Judgment, Stolen Rembrandt Drawing, Stolen Art, Rembrandt Stolen, Stolen Rembrandt, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- On the surface it looked like an open-and-shut case: A pair of thieves drop by an art exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton and, while one dis...

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WATCH: Gallery Allegedly Removes Banksy West-Bank Stencils

Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Palestine, Video, Banksy Street Art, Banksy Art Theft, West Bank, Art West Bank, Keszler Gallery, Street Art, Art Theft, Graffiti, Banksy Palestine, Palestine Art, Banksy, Arts News

An unauthorized Banksy show at the Keszler Gallery in New York City has angered arts commentators for apparently removing original works from their We...

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Two Ancient Chinese Sculptures Stolen In Connecticut

AP | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Art Theif, Connecticut Arts, 2011 Art Theft, Crime, Police, Connecticut, Sculpture, Art Theives, Art Theft, Chinese Art Stolen, Chinese Art, Stolen Art, Art Theft 2011, Arts News

WESTPORT, Conn. -- Police say they're investigating the theft of two rare ancient Chinese head sculptures valued at $800,000 each from a private colle...

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Art Stolen So Far In 2011

Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Top Art Steals, 2011 Art Theft, Crime, Picasso Art Theft, Art Theives, Picasso Art Thief San Francisco, Art Theft, Mark Lugo, Picasso-Theif, Top Art Thefts, Art Theft 2011, Mutual Art, Arts News

The year 2011 has already seen an unprecedented number “art steals” making headlines - and we’re not referring to bargains on the auction house ...

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What Happens To Art Post-Heist?

Stealing Beauty | Posted 10.07.2011

Read More: Art, Picasso San Francisco, Picasso Art Theft, Selling Stolen Art, Art Theft, Black Market, Mark Lugo, Fences, Picasso Stolen, Fernand Leger, Stolen Art, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Arts News

A spate of high-profile art thefts—among them the San Francisco Picasso heist that led to the discovery of a veritable museum in the thief’s Hobok...

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The Week In Art

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: 1960s, Salvador Dali, Highlights This Week, Art Theft, James Franco Art, Artists, Lucian Freud Dead, Picasso, Museum of Nonvisible Art, Art, Aimee Davison, Non Visible Art, Mark Lugo, Lucian Freud, James Franco, Famous-Artists, Arts News

This week in the arts: the art world lost another legendary painter, Lucian Freud, who died at 88. We interviewed the woman who bought the most expens...

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10 Famous Art Heists

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Monet, Cezanne, Crime, Cellini, Sculpture, Stolen Picasso, Art Theft, Vermeer, Mark Lugo, J.M.W. Turner, Picasso, Painting, UK Arts, San Francisco, Munch, Arts News

If the case of Mark Lugo, suspected Picasso thief, can teach us anything, it's that stealing art is extremely difficult. It's almost comically easy, o...

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Cops Nab Art Thieves At Taco Bell

AP | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Art Theft, Taco Bell Art, Cleveland Taco Bell, Cleveland Crime, Ohio, Taco Bell, Home News

WESTLAKE, Ohio -- Workers at an Ohio Taco Bell say four people wanted more than nachos. Restaurant employees in suburban Cleveland told police that t...

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Man Accused Of Picasso Theft To Plead Not Guilty

AP | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Picasso Theft, San Francisco Chronicle, Tete De Femme, Weinstein Gallery, Art Theft, Grand Theft, Picasso, Picasso Drawing Stolen, Art, Pablo Picasso, Napa, Drawing, San Francisco, Mark Lugo, Picasso Stolen, Douglas Horngrad, Arts News

SAN FRANCISCO -- The attorney for a New Jersey man accused of snatching a Picasso drawing off the wall of a San Francisco art gallery says his client ...

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Cy Twombly, Stop-Motion And Sir Mick: Highlights This Week

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Pablo Picaso, Mick Jagger, Sculpture, Art Theft, Film, Painting, Picasso, National Portrait Gallery, Cy Twombly Dead, Zero, Stop Motion Animation, Follow the Sun, Cy Twombly, Mk12, Sir Mick Jagger, Portraits, Arts News

We've had a week full of ups and downs here at Huffington Post Arts. We were sad to see Artist Cy Twombly go, and a man stole a Picasso in San Francis...

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Routine Traffic Stop Leads To $3.6M In Stolen Art

ARTINFO | Posted 08.18.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Art Theft, Milan, Italian, Art, Artinfo, Monaco, Tate, Paola Folon, Warhol, Giorgio Morandi, Mao, Christies, Arts News
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When Italian police stopped a car near Milan last month, they discovered more than they bargained for. Not only was the driver driving without a licen...

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