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Stolen Elaine de Kooning Work Found in Colorado Hotel Room

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie January 19, 2023January 20, 2023

Boulder authorities also uncovered stolen guns, drugs, and work by artist Jane Freilicher.

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American Woman Tried to Smuggle 166 Maya Objects From Guatemala

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

Stephanie Allison Jolluck was apprehended by authorities days after a close call with airport security, who found two 1,000-year-old artifacts in her luggage.

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Michigan Art Dealer Swindled Seniors in $1.6M Fraud Scheme

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie October 21, 2022October 21, 2022

Wendy Halsted Beard defrauded her clients of over 100 photographs, including works by Ansel Adams, and targeted elderly collectors.

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Tucked Away in LA For Decades, 2,000-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Returns to Italy

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 13, 2022September 13, 2022

An art attorney contacted the FBI on behalf of an anonymous client who was in possession of a mosaic of Medusa.

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Manhattan DA’s Office Is After Its Own Antiquities Trafficking Informant

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie August 9, 2022August 9, 2022

Lebanese art dealer Georges Lotfi, who once helped authorities seize looted antiquities, is now accused of doing his own share of trafficking too.

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Italy Thwarts Potential Illegal Sale of $2M Artemisia Gentileschi Painting

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

The Carabinieri’s art crime unit said Gentileschi’s masterpiece “Caritas Romana” was on its way to be sold in Vienna.

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How Does the FBI Art Crime Team Operate?

by Cassie Packard January 17, 2022January 14, 2022

“[The art market] provides an opportunity for people to move money in a way that they can’t with other commodities,” says FBI Special Agent Chris McKeogh.

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In an Unusual Crime, Someone Threw a Stolen Painting Into the Gardner Museum

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 28, 2021January 29, 2021

The Boston museum, the site of one of history’s most notorious unsolved art crimes, now finds itself indirectly connected to another.

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Shining a Black Light on Art Forgery

by Mónica Ramón Ríos September 18, 2019

María Gainza’s novel dives into art-world forgery and false identities amid Argentina’s politics of the 1960s.

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Chinese Officials Seize Mao Zedong Bust Filled With Narcotics

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 8, 2019

Police arrested three people on suspicion of trafficking more than $150,000 worth of drugs, some of which was hidden inside the Communist leader’s noggin.

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As Artist’s Murder Trial Drags On, Display of His Work Sparks Uproar

by Jillian Steinhauer December 13, 2016December 14, 2016

A work by the South African photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa, who is still on trial for the 2013 murder of a sex worker in Cape Town, was included in an exhibition intended to empower women.

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Staff Stole 162 Artifacts from Museum of Macedonia

by Laura C. Mallonee March 24, 2015March 23, 2015

Last Friday, a judge in the Macedonian capital Skopje convicted six employees at the state-owned Museum of Macedonia of stealing objects from the institution’s collection and selling them abroad through an organized crime ring, AFP reported.

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