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Art Theft

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...

Break-In At The National Museum Of Ireland

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 04.18.2013 | Arts

DUBLIN — Masked men stole stuffed rhinoceros heads containing eight valuable horns from the warehouse of Ireland's National Museum, police and m...

Florida Art Heist Revisited 44 Years Later

AP | TAMARA LUSH | Posted 03.29.2013 | 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, ...

World's Earliest Figurative Sculpture Found, And More Arts News...

Posted 02.01.2013 | Arts

World's Earliest Figurative Sculpture Turns Out To Be Adorable: A "lion man" carved from mammoth ivory is being removed from the British Museum's "Ic...

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...

The Murky Underworld Of Stolen Art

Posted 02.21.2013 | Arts

Spectacular art heists may be imbued with a mythological, almost romantic status, but the underworld reality is far murkier. It was just after 2am ...

Thieves Steal $770K Sculpture And Sell It For $74

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 12.11.2012 | Arts

Two men who stole a Henry Moore sculpture worth $770,000 earlier this year recently confessed to selling the work of art to a UK scrapyard. The unwitt...

Stolen Paintings Found In A Cemetery 700 Miles Away From Museum

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.14.2012 | Arts

Four paintings stolen by a trio of brazen thieves out of a museum in the South African capital city Pretoria Sunday were found today in a private ceme...

Pistol-Wielding Thieves Steal $2M From Museum

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 01.12.2013 | Arts

JOHANNESBURG — Thieves posing as eager art students with their teacher stole more than $2 million worth of paintings from a museum in South Afri...

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...

Art Heist On The Water

The Huffington Post | Katherine Brooks | Posted 10.11.2012 | Arts

A cruise ship vacationer has admitted this week to stealing a copy of a famous oil painting by Rembrandt while aboard a Bermuda-bound liner, reports T...

$200,000 Reward Offered For The Return Of This Art

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 10.01.2012 | Los Angeles

Thieves stole an estimated $20 million in assets from the Santa Monica home of Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital LP last week. Gundlach is n...

Thieves Nab Whopping $300K Worth Of Kinkade Art

Posted 08.27.2012 | Arts

Art thieves in Fresno, California unsuspectingly stumbled upon a Thomas Kinkade goldmine when they broke into a former shop owners's property on Tuesd...

Thief Steals Paintings, Can't Remember Why

Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.16.2012 | Arts

It's the oldest criminal defense in the book, heard in courtrooms and on soap operas the world over: the old "I don't remember doing it" defense. W...

Major Art Galleries Caught In Trafficking Scandal

Posted 08.03.2012 | Arts

The National Gallery of Australia is one of 18 major art institutions around the world that have found themselves embroiled in an international art sm...

$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...

U.S. Returns Stolen Treasure To Peru

Reuters | Posted 09.11.2012 | World

WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities returned 14 stolen and looted paintings and artifacts to Peru on Thursday, including four archaeolo...

Stolen Dali Painting Mailed Back Unharmed

Posted 07.03.2012 | Arts

Salvador Dali was an eccentric fellow to say the least, so it is no surprise that a Dali theft (and return) would be a surreal ordeal. First a Dal...

Stolen Dali Painting Mailed Back To NYC

AP | Posted 08.30.2012 | Arts

NEW YORK -- The U.S. Postal Inspection Service says a stolen Salvador Dali painting has been mailed back to New York from Europe and intercepted at Ke...