Exactly where or when the life of Loretta Sternbach took a turn toward the dark side no one is sure now.
Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012
By Yereth Rosen May 3 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are seeking to take control of five paintings - one valued at up to $50,000 - se...
AP | GARY FINEOUT | Posted 04.18.2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — U.S. authorities ended a more than 70-year-old art drama Wednesday by returning a 16th century masterpiece to a Jewish man's...
Posted 04.16.2012
When Marcel DuChamp hung a porcelain urinal in a museum and called it "Fountain", it was dubbed a work of genius. When Eva and Franco Mattes chipped o...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 03.31.2012
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...
AP | Posted 03.10.2012
ATHENS, Greece — Thieves carried out a well-organized, pre-dawn heist at Greece's biggest state art museum on Monday, taking two oil paintings b...
AP | By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 11.21.2011
BERLIN -- An American university returned a 15th century painting to a Berlin museum on Monday, more than six decades after the valuable piece was sto...
Posted 12.10.2011
It now appears art worth more than $130 million may have been dumped in the trash by a scared thief. The LA Times reports that several paintings st...
AP | By JOHN ROGERS | Posted 11.12.2011
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...
AP | Posted 10.18.2011
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...
AP/The Huffington Post | By ROBERT JABLON and THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.16.2011
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 ...
Stealing Beauty | Posted 10.07.2011
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...
AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 09.04.2011
-- "Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg: In 1997, a gang of c...
AP | By BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 07.23.2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A stolen 14th-century panel painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a child has been recovered at a Kentucky art museum, which agre...
The Guardian | Sam Jones | Posted 07.05.2011
Despite a reputation for reaching for their revolvers at the merest mention of culture, the Nazis were among the most ruthless, avaricious and methodi...
AP | By HAROLD HECKLE | Posted 06.17.2011
MADRID -- Spanish investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of the country's most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, a police statement...
AP | Posted 05.29.2011
LOS ANGELES -- The J. Paul Getty Museum says it will return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazi...
Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review | Posted 05.27.2011
A painting rumored to be by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from the Kuwait Museum in 1990 or 1991 during the Gulf War has been found in Balıkesir, a w...
The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011
Sotheby's has scrapped its February sale of a controversial £4.5m mask believed to have been looted by British forces from 19th-century West Africa. ...
Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Mail Online | Posted 05.25.2011
A brazen thief tunnelled through a wall into a New York City apartment and stole $750,000 of pictures by Andy Warhol and other artists. Police said t...
washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011
MADRID -- Spanish police say they have recovered artworks including pieces by Picasso, Colombian artist Fernando Botero and Spanish sculptor Eduardo C...
AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was st...
historynet.com | Posted 05.25.2011
The Swedes came at night, rushing through a gap in the walls protecting the Mala Strana neighborhood at the foot of Prague Castle. By the break of day...
AFP | AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
A stolen letter written by 17th-century thinker Descartes and found in the United States was returned to France Tuesday, ending a detective tale featu...
AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.08.2012