A $1 million Renoir painting plucked from a Houston home by an armed robber earlier this month remains at large, and local police officials now tell press that they believe that the work may be on its way out of the country. Details for the reasoning behind that suspicious have not been released. Read More
Would-be art thieves, take note: law enforcement officials fighting art theft are having a great week. In New York, police have identified a suspect in the recent heist of a KAWS work, and, in Los Angeles, officials believe that a recently recovered work attributed to Rembrandt may actually be a fake.
And now, out in Athens, authorities say they have arrested two Greeks for allegedly trying to sell an oil sketch by Flemish 17th-century master Peter Paul Rubens that was stolen from a Belgian museum a decade ago. Read More
At about 6 p.m., on Thursday, Aug. 4, a young man in a beige baseball hat, a green hoodie, blue jeans and running shoes entered an elevator in a Chelsea office building and stared directly at the security camera inside. He had a poster tube in his hand, and a thin mustache across his upper lip.
Police now believe that man snatched an artwork by KAWS—the pen name of Brooklyn street artist Brian Donnelly—from a second-floor hallway, ducked into a nearby bathroom, smashed its frame and slipped it into that tube. Read More
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 Hoboken apartment, the walk-in lifting of a $350,000 Fernand Léger from New York’s Helly Nahmad Gallery, and the arrest of war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic following his attempted sale of a Read More
