News
Louvre Director’s Testimony Sheds New Light on Heist
Laurence des Cars pointed to long-term security issues and overdue upgrades that may have facilitated the thieves’ brazen daylight break-in.
Art Crime
News
French Museum Reports Theft One Day After Louvre Heist
The Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot in Langres said several gold and silver coins were stolen while the institution was closed.
Opinion
The Louvre Heist Was a Colonial Wake-Up Call
The stunning theft reveals more than a failure of security: It lays bare how austerity, neglect, and unresolved colonial legacies continue to haunt the museum.
Feature
The Louvre Was Robbed, But the Memes Stole the Show
Digital commentators wasted no time making Pink Panther jokes and digs at President Macron as the brazen robbery gets absorbed into the online discourse.
News
Miniature Picasso Painting Goes Missing in Spain
Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of the artwork, which was slated for an exhibition in Granada.
News
Man Caught Smuggling Hundreds of Egyptian Antiquities Through JFK Airport
The 52-year-old Brooklyn resident allegedly falsified provenance documents to conceal the artifacts' illicit origins.
News
Argentine Couple Placed on House Arrest in Nazi-Looted Art Probe
Police raided the home of Patricia Kadgien after an 18th-century painting plundered from a Dutch-Jewish art collector was spotted in a real estate listing.
Opinion
Can an Artist’s DNA Help Detect Forgeries?
Biological residue on or around an artwork may help tell an original from a fake, but the novel method is not without risks.
Feature
At Home With the Last Heir of a Pissarro Painting Looted by Nazis
David Cassirer reflects on his family, their legacy, and the work at the center of a serpentine legal case that has wound up and down the US court system for the last 25 years.
News
A Looted Greco-Roman Statue Goes on Display Before Its Return
After a months-long legal battle, the sculpture is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art ahead of its repatriation to Turkey, with newly added context about its provenance.
News
Antiquities Looted by Notorious Smuggling Ring Returned to Nepal
Works linked to the disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor are among the 20 objects seized by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit.
Film
Plunderer Shows How Art Looting Continues to Pay Off
The two-part documentary asks us to rethink what we know about looting, art restitution, the art market, and who the war’s heroes and villains really were.