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.
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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.
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The Most Valuable Stolen Artworks Across Time
On the anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, learn more about the 10 most expensive missing artworks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
