News
Louvre Museum Closed After Dramatic Daylight Heist
Thieves made off with “priceless” jewels just half an hour after the Parisian museum opened to the public.
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Film
They Managed to Mess Up an Art Heist Movie
There must be a lesson in Vasilis Katsoupis’s film Inside about the vacuousness of the art market or the claustrophobia of exhibition spaces — I just don’t care.
Film
The Couple Behind One of History's Most Brazen Art Heists
The Thief Collector goes beyond the 1985 theft of Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” to explore the speculative history of the presumed thieves who held onto it for over 30 years.
News
The Most Valuable Stolen Artworks Across Time
On the anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, learn more about the 10 most expensive missing artworks.
News
German Police Release Footage of a High-Profile Museum Heist; Officials Say the Jewels Were Uninsured
The video shows two men breaking into the Green Vault at Dresden's Royal Palace with an axe, stealing a trove of 18th-century jewelry.
In Brief
Thief Steals Dalí Print in Under a Minute
An audacious thief managed to snatch a Salvador Dalí etching off an easel at a San Francisco art gallery.
In Brief
Serial Art Thief, Who Stole Nearly 250 Artworks, Arrested Yet Again
His mother has destroyed almost 100 art objects to minimize evidence of the stolen goods.