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Picasso and Mondrian paintings propped up next to eachother

Picasso-Obsessed Art Thief Sentenced in 2012 Athens Museum Heist

An art-loving construction worker who stole a Picasso and Mondrian 10 years ago from an Athens museum has finally been sentenced for the heist.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Bronze mask.

The Repatriation Wave Continues, as a London Museum Returns 72 Artifacts to Nigeria

Days after a set of guidelines outlining how English museums should approach restitution and repatriation cases was released, London's Horniman Museum announced it will return more than 70 looted antiquities to Nigeria.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Six Arrests Have Been Made in Connection to the Dresden Saxony Jewel Theft

According to German officials, the suspects have connections to the notoriously criminal "Remmo clan."
By Helen Holmes

Raffaele Imperiale Has Been Arrested in Connection to a Decades-Old Van Gogh Theft

By Helen Holmes

An Attempted Theft of a Monet Was Thwarted by Bystanders and Museum Staff This Week

By Helen Holmes

A Margaret Keane ‘Big Eyes’ Painting Stolen Decades Ago Has Been Recovered

By Helen Holmes

German Art Advisor Angela Gulbenkian Pleaded Guilty to Duping Fellow Art Dealers

By Helen Holmes

A Picasso Art Thief Says the Painting Tormented Him for Years

By Helen Holmes

Picasso and Mondrian Paintings Stolen 9 Years Ago Have Been Found in a Ditch

By Helen Holmes

Fragments of Frescoes Stolen from Pompeii’s Ruins Have Been Returned

By Helen Holmes

A Lithograph of Andy Warhol’s Iconic Campbell’s Soup Can Was Stolen in Manhattan

By Helen Holmes

The Most Controversial and Ambitious Art Heists of 2020

By Helen Holmes

Six Arrests Made in the Case of the Stolen Bataclan Banksy

By Helen Holmes

Banksy’s ‘Game Changer’ Painting Was Almost Stolen From a UK Hospital

By Helen Holmes

19,000 Art Objects, Stolen by a Global Trafficking Ring, Have Been Recovered

By Helen Holmes
Banksy WFH

Even Banksy’s Working From Home: The Street Artist Shares a Bathroom Makeover

By Helen Holmes

A Van Gogh Painting Was Stolen From a Dutch Museum Closed Due to the Pandemic

By Helen Holmes

Ulay Made Art Out of Everything—Even the Illness That Took His Life

By Helen Holmes

Paintings by Graffiti Artist Phase 2 Stolen in Smash-and-Grab Robbery

By Helen Holmes

Banksy Theft Solved? Two Arrested in Paris for Pompidou Center Heist

By Helen Holmes
Painting of Karl-Bertil Nordland by Barbora Kysilkova as featured in The Painter and the Thief.

An Artist Meets the Thief Who Stole Her Work in an Astonishing New Documentary

By Stephen Garrett

Thieves Snatch at Least 10 Salvador Dalí Sculptures From a Stockholm Gallery

By Helen Holmes

Missing Klimt Painting Has Reportedly Been Found in the Gallery Where It Was Stolen

By Helen Holmes

A Ring Oscar Wilde Gave as a Gift Has Resurfaced Almost 20 Years After Being Stolen

By Helen Holmes
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