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Art Heist

Man Accused Of Stealing Pablo Picasso Artwork

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.07.2013 | Arts

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- A Pennsylvania man was being held on $1 million bond following his arrest in the theft of six artworks, including an etching by Pablo...

Macedonia Conducts Country-Wide Raid To Find Looters

AP | Posted 05.01.2013 | Arts

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonian police say they have carried out raids across the country and arrested 17 people, including two state museum employees...

Florida Art Heist Revisited 44 Years Later

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 05.29.2013 | Arts

SARASOTA, Fla. — On an April evening nearly 44 years ago, just days after Easter Sunday, someone slipped into a museum in Sarasota and stole 15 ...

The Most Famous Art Thefts

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.19.2013 | Arts

BOSTON — Authorities announced this week that they believe they know who stole 13 pieces of artwork worth as much as $500 million from Boston's ...

FBI Announces New Info On 23rd Anniversary Of $500 Million Art Heist

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 03.19.2013 | Arts

Nearly twenty five years after one of the world's most expensive art heists the FBI has announced that they have identified the individuals who stole ...

Another Suspect Arrested In Dutch Art Heist Investigation

AP | DAVID RISING and TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts

AMSTERDAM — German prosecutors said Thursday they arrested a man after he allegedly tried to sell seven paintings taken in a Netherlands heist, ...

Dutch Police Arrest Woman In Connection With Major Art Heist

AP | Posted 05.04.2013 | Arts

AMSTERDAM — Dutch police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Romanian woman in connection with a major art heist from the Kunsthal gallery in R...

Will The Rotterdam Art Thieves Be Charged?

AP | Posted 01.25.2013 | Arts

BUCHAREST, Romania -- A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was...

Interpol Says They'll Recover Stolen Paintings

AP | Posted 01.24.2013 | Arts

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The head of Interpol says he believes police will retrieve valuable paintings that were stolen from a museum in the Netherlands ...

Three Arrested For Giant Rotterdam Art Heist

Posted 01.23.2013 | Arts

Three suspects were arrested in Romania on Tuesday for the massive art heist Kunsthal gallery last October, called "every museum director's worst nigh...

Big Art Heist Reported At Dutch Museum

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 12.15.2012 | Arts

AMSTERDAM (AP) -- Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse pot...

$770,000 Sculpture Stolen For Scraps?

Posted 07.13.2012 | Arts

A $770,000 bronze sculpture by British artist Henry Moore was stolen late Tuesday or early Wednesday from the garden of the Henry Moore Foundation, lo...

Dali Painting Stolen By A Curious Man In Polka Dot Shirt

Posted 06.22.2012 | Arts

Today NBC News reported that a Salvador Dali painting worth $150,000 was stolen on Tuesday night from Venus Over Manhattan gallery on Madison Avenue i...

Damaged Cezanne Painting Can Be Restored

AP | Posted 06.27.2012 | Arts

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...

Chinese Artifacts Stolen From UK Museum

AP | Posted 06.18.2012 | Arts

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

Prolific Forger And Guy Who Caught Him Team Up For Exhibition

Posted 04.01.2012 | Arts

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...

Will The Largest Art Heist In History Finally Be Solved?

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 03.31.2012 | Home

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...

New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012 | Arts

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...

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

Posted 12.08.2011 | Arts

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...

$140 Million In Stolen Masterpieces Tossed In The Garbage?

Posted 12.10.2011 | Arts

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...

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

Jane Chafin | Posted 10.18.2011 | Arts
Jane Chafin

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?

Stolen Rembrandt Recovered

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

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 ...

Does Stealing A Rembrant Pay Off?

AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 09.04.2011 | Arts

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

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

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

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...

Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum

AP | ERNST E. ABEGG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...