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The Couple Behind One of History’s Most Brazen Art Heists

Avatar photo by Rachel Harris-Huffman November 9, 2022November 10, 2022

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.

Posted inNews

$100M Stolen de Kooning Painting Returns to Museum After 37 Years

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie October 5, 2022October 5, 2022

Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” was sliced out of its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in a notoriously brazen theft.

Posted inArt

A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 28, 2022August 1, 2022

The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.

Posted inNews

$2M Gold Tabernacle Stolen From Brooklyn Church

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 5, 2022June 3, 2022

Also, an angel statue was decapitated and the eucharist thrown over the altar.

Posted inNews

Man Breaks Into Dallas Museum and Smashes Over $1M Worth of Ancient Greek Art

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu June 3, 2022June 3, 2022

21-year-old Brian Hernandez is accused of breaking into the museum by smashing a door with a steel chair.

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“Brazen” Couple Tries to Walk Out of Manhattan Gallery With a Basquiat

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

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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You Can Now Report Stolen Art Using Interpol’s New App

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 9, 2021May 7, 2021

Users can browse more than 50,000 objects reported stolen or upload their own images to check whether a work has shady provenance.

Posted inFilm

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Gets the Netflix Treatment

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

The miniseries This Is a Robbery is at its best when working through the stranger details of the infamous, still-unsolved crime.

Posted inFilm

A Modern Update to the “Gentleman Thief” Genre

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel January 14, 2021January 27, 2021

Starring Omar Sy, the French Netflix series Lupin is a delightful crime thriller.

Posted inFilm

An Unlikely Friendship Between a Painter and the Man Who Stole Her Artwork

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 20, 2020

The new documentary The Painter and the Thief finds the complexities in what could have been a basic feel-good tale.

Posted inNews

The Most Valuable Stolen Artworks Across Time

by Hakim Bishara March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

On the anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, learn more about the 10 most expensive missing artworks.

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Artworks by Famed Street Artist “Phase 2” Stolen From Lower East Side Studio

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 20, 2020

The late Phase 2, née Michael Lawrence Marrow, is credited as the originator of the popular bubble letter or “softies” style.

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