> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fastest Art Heist in History? - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/fastest-art-heist-in-history/ - Published: 2026-03-31T10:00:18.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-03T19:18:41.000Z - Description: Thieves walk off with three masterpieces in under three minutes, photos from No Kings, new galleries for the Brooklyn Museum's Africa collection, and more. - Author: Hyperallergic - Tags: Daily Newsletter, Newsletter Less than three minutes. That's the time it reportedly took thieves in northern Italy to walk off with a Cézanne, a Matisse, and a Renoir worth about $10 million altogether. And what have you done today? Just kidding. Maybe you were one of 8 million Americans who participated in last weekend's No Kings protests. Writer Bella Bromberg was at some of New York’s marches to talk to protesters and capture photos of the best signs. Meanwhile, a guerrilla artwork featuring a gold toilet appears on the National Mall in DC to lampoon Trump’s gaudy bathroom renovation. There's more, including Juan Uslé’s memory-laden paintings of shipwrecks, and a new film that tries very hard to dramatize the relationship between two British landscape painters. *—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/Others-displayed-more-foreboding-tones-1.jpeg)](https://hyperallergic.com/see-photos-from-new-yorks-historic-anti-trump-marches/) Signs at a No Kings march in New York City on March 28, 2026 (photo Bella Bromberg/**Hyperallergic*) ### [See Photos From New York’s Historic Anti-Trump Marches](https://hyperallergic.com/see-photos-from-new-yorks-historic-anti-trump-marches/) “Art is a way that we get to connect with each other, to witness each other, and to give a little bit of a buoy to keep going,” one protester told Hyperallergic. | Bella Bromberg --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/033125_FineArtsBFAPaintingThesisExhibition_MP-22-1.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/mondays-at-pratt-institute-weekly-openings-of-work-by-graduating-artists/) ****Mondays at Pratt Institute: Weekly Openings of Work by Graduating Artists** Free and open to the public, Pratt Shows celebrate the school’s graduating students. MFA and BFA work is on view this spring in Brooklyn, New York. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/mondays-at-pratt-institute-weekly-openings-of-work-by-graduating-artists/) --- ## News [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/image-83.png)](https://hyperallergic.com/new-protest-art-lampoons-trumps-gaudy-bathroom-redesign/) A golden toilet appeared on the National Mall on March 30, 2026\. (photo courtesy the Secret Handshake) - A 10-foot-tall, [faux marble throne with a golden toilet](https://hyperallergic.com/new-protest-art-lampoons-trumps-gaudy-bathroom-redesign/) in the center was unveiled on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, lampooning Trump’s many gaudy and expensive redesigns. - In a heist lasting less than three minutes, thieves nabbed [$10 million worth of paintings](https://hyperallergic.com/thieves-steal-paintings-worth-10m-by-cezanne-matisse-and-renoir/) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse from a small museum in northern Italy. - Ten years after Arts of Africa became its own department at the Brooklyn Museum, the institution is embarking on the [development of a $13 millionpermanent home](https://hyperallergic.com/brooklyn-museums-africa-collection-to-get-a-brand-new-space/) for the collection of over 4,500 objects and artworks. --- SPONSORED [![CTA Image](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/1-Hofshi_Cade_Tompkins_Projects_Ephemeral-Passage-1-2.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/may-you-live-in-interesting-times-the-ifpda-print-fair-asks-do-bad-times-really-inspire-great-art/) ****May You Live in Interesting Times — The IFPDA Print Fair Asks, Do Bad Times Really Inspire Great Art?** This year’s edition brings together over 80 exhibitors presenting works from Francisco Goya to Kara Walker. April 9–12 at Park Avenue Armory. [Learn more ](https://hyperallergic.com/may-you-live-in-interesting-times-the-ifpda-print-fair-asks-do-bad-times-really-inspire-great-art/) --- ## From Our Critics [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/IMG_5558--1--1.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/juan-usles-childhood-shipwrecks/) Juan Uslé, “Gulf Stream” (1989) (photo Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) ### [Juan Uslé’s Childhood Shipwrecks](https://hyperallergic.com/juan-usles-childhood-shipwrecks/) A new retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid traces Uslé’s work from a Spanish shipwreck to its rebirth in New York City | Lauren Moya Ford ### [Turner and Constable Hit the Screen](https://hyperallergic.com/turner-and-constable-hit-the-screen/) The camera glides smoothly over landscapes of old England in a film that tries hard to dramatize the rivalry between the two masters. | Michael Glover --- ## Member Comment Rachel Lafo on Hakim Bishara's "[The Whitney Biennial Is for the Faint-Hearted](https://hyperallergic.com/the-whitney-biennial-is-for-the-faint-hearted/)": I, too, was disappointed in the Biennial. Themes can be useful when organizing an exhibition but can also be so broadly interpreted that they become meaningless. Some of the artworks in past Biennials hardly seemed to fit the stated exhibition theme. I don't believe that every exhibition has to reflect on the politics of the time. --- ## ICYMI [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/03/8.-John-Constable-RA--Rainstorm-over-the-Sea--ca.-1824-1828.----Photo-Royal-Academy-of-Art.jpg)](https://hyperallergic.com/turner-and-constable-face-off-in-london/) John Constable, “Rainstorm over the Sea” (c. 1824–28) (© Photo Royal Academy of Art, photo by John Hammond) ### [Turner and Constable Face Off in London](https://hyperallergic.com/turner-and-constable-face-off-in-london/) Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s *Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals*, or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door? | Michael Glover