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Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS: Photo shows a detail from a portrait in the exhibition of Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), "Rembrandt ? Search of a genius", which opened 30 March 2006 in the Rembrandthuis (House of Rembrandt) in Amsterdam. The expo explains the change in style of the paintings of Rembrandt. Musuem Rembrandthuis shows these changes in an overview of fifty paintings, along with many sketches and prints. AFP PHOTO ANP / JUAN VRIJDAG NETHERLANDS OUT

Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About This $30 Million Italian Art Heist?

Weeks after news of the theft broke, it remains unknown just what works were taken.
By Anthony Amore
Ulay.

Ulay Remembers the Crime of a Lifetime 40 Years Later

The artist recalls one of history's most famous performances: that time he stole a painting from a Berlin museum.
By Noah Charney
Verona, Castelvecchio and river Adige

13 Suspects Arrested Following $16.5M Art Heist in Verona

Arrested made after millions in art stolen in Verona.
By Casey Quackenbush
"Tete de Femme" which was stolen at a San Francisco Museum four years ago (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Matisse, Chagall Among $250K in Art Stolen in LA Heist

By Vida Weisblum
A press conference was held at the Detroit Institute of Arts last July to announce that $26.8 million in pledges were made by Michigan businesses to the DIA to help it reach its $100 million Detroit Bankruptcy Grand Bargain commitment. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Detroit Institute of Arts Faces Next Challenge, Verona Art Museum Heist, and More

By Alanna Martinez
Robert Gentile is brought into the federal courthouse in a wheelchair on Monday, April 20, 2015, for a continuation of a hearing that was held Friday after Gentile was arrested after selling a gun to an undercover agent. (Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant/TNS via Getty Images)

Hartford Mobster Tied to Art Heist Files Complaint Against the FBI

By Alanna Martinez
A garden inside the Gardner Museum, in Boston.

Mobster Allegedly Tried to Sell Works Lost in $500 Million Gardner Museum Heist

By Nate Freeman
Henri Matisse. Reclining Odalisque (Harmony in Red), 1927 Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 (1999.363.44) (Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) This is an example of art work by Matisse and was not one of the works referred to in this story.

Works by Picasso and Matisse Among Seven Paintings Stolen From Dutch Art Museum

By Rozalia Jovanovic
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