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Louvre Advisors Detained in Art Trafficking Investigation
The news comes after former Louvre President Jean-Luc Martinez was charged in May with concealing the origins of illegally smuggled Egyptian antiquities.
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Weekend Shooting Forces MFA Boston Into Lockdown
The museum shuttered for an hour on Saturday after a man was shot nearby, one of several recent incidents in the city involving an unlawful weapon.
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Italy Thwarts Potential Illegal Sale of $2M Artemisia Gentileschi Painting
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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British Geologist Who Took Pottery Shards From Iraqi Site Gets 15-Year Sentence
Jim Fitton was found guilty of smuggling antiquities after 12 small pottery shards were found in his luggage at a Baghdad airport.
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$2M Gold Tabernacle Stolen From Brooklyn Church
Also, an angel statue was decapitated and the eucharist thrown over the altar.
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Man Breaks Into Dallas Museum and Smashes Over $1M Worth of Ancient Greek Art
21-year-old Brian Hernandez is accused of breaking into the museum by smashing a door with a steel chair.
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NY District Attorney's Office Seizes Allegedly Looted Antiquities From the Met
The five ancient Egyptian works, worth over $3M, may be tied to an international trafficking ring.
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"Brazen" Couple Tries to Walk Out of Manhattan Gallery With a Basquiat
The suspects attempted to take a Basquiat artwork valued at $45,000 from Taglialatella Galleries but instead made off with a half-empty bottle of whiskey.
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Art Dealer Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for $86M Fraud Scheme
Inigo Philbrick misrepresented the ownership of and fraudulently traded in works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, and others.
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Ukraine Accuses Russia of Looting Over 2,000 Artworks
A handwritten Torah scroll and paintings by Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovsky are among the works allegedly stolen from museums in Mariupol.
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Family of Holocaust Victim Sues Israel Museum in Jerusalem
Ludwig Marum’s grandchildren say the museum did not conduct due diligence when it purchased a 700-year-old Haggadah book that was allegedly stolen from them.
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How a Prolific Art Forger Got a New York Gallery Show
An exhibition at Wirth Galerie aims to recognize Landis not just as a forger, but as an artist in his own right.