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David Adjaye to Design Benin Royal Museum, Housing Artifacts Stolen Under Colonialism

Chris Marinello, CEO of Art Recovery International.

The Art World Calls This Man When Masterpieces Go Missing

By Alanna Martinez
The bell krater the Met Museum turned over to the Manhattan DA's office.

Met Museum Turns Over Two Looted Objects to Authorities

By Alanna Martinez
Some of the Nazi memorabilia found at the home of English serial killer Patrick Mackay, 3rd November 1975. Mackay claimed to have murdered eleven people in England in the mid 1970s. (Photo by )

Authorities Uncover a Trove of Nazi Artifacts Hidden in Argentina

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

Gardner Museum Will Pay You $10M to Help Find Its Stolen Paintings

By Alanna Martinez
French President Francois Hollande visiting the Department of Islamic Arts galleries at the Louvre in 2012.

Louvre Offers to Store Rescued Art from Syria, Jeremy Shaw Wins Sobey Art Award

By Alanna Martinez
Retired electrician Pierre Le Guennec harbored a collection of 271 works by Pablo Picasso, the French newspaper Liberation reported today. Picasso's heir, Claude Picasso, who filled a complaint, dismissed Le Guennec's claim that he could have received the paintings as gifts, telling Liberation that his father would not have given such a quantity of works to anyone, after Le Guennec told he had been given the works as presents, either by Picasso's wife or from the artist himself. AFP PHOTO VALERY HACHE (Photo credit should read )

Picasso’s Handyman Claims Hidden Hoard Were Gifts, Ai Weiwei Lashes Out During Talk

By Alanna Martinez
Ulay.

Ulay Remembers the Crime of a Lifetime 40 Years Later

By Noah Charney
A porter holds up the manuscript of Marcel Proust's questionaire, 27 May 2003 put up for sale in Paris by Beaussant-Lefevre auction house at Drouot hotel in Paris. The manuscript from 1884-1887, conceived by Proust at 14, was sold 120.227 Euro, four time its estimate price, to French designer Gerard Darel.

French Court Jails Auction House Thieves, Museum of Arts and Design Names Director

By Alanna Martinez
PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND - JULY 19: Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose after a £5.4m museum revamp on July 19, 2016 in Portsmouth, England. The ship, which was raised from the Solent in 1982, was launched in Portsmouth in 1511 and sank in 1545 at the Battle of the Solent.

Henry VIII’s Warship Goes on View, New Bill Would Block Export of Sacred Artifacts

By Alanna Martinez
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