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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 24, 2015April 6, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: thieves take Taco Bell painting, vandals critique Kant, and a man mistaken for Banksy sues six NYPD officers.

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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 17, 2015March 16, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Uncanny canine sculpture goes for a walk, German art dealer gets six years, and Navy veteran accused of improper flag use in baby photo shoot.

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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 3, 2015March 5, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Brothers trying to offload fake Goya get conned, gallery manager siphons off $450,000 from Botero sale, and French thieves make off with the King of Siam’s crown.

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Crimes of the Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 24, 2015February 24, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Cops don’t care for anti-cop mural, misattribution embarrasses Toronto art detectives, and an ice sculpture smasher is on the loose.

Posted inIn Brief

Thomas Kinkade and the Jesus of Zionsville, a Christmas Tale

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 11, 2014December 14, 2014

’Twas a few weeks before Christmas, and all through Zionsville, Indiana’s Thomas Kinkade Gallery,
Many creatures were stirring, shoppers out for Small Business Saturday…

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The Art Trophies from When the White House Went Up in Flames

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 1, 2014August 31, 2014

The 200th anniversary of the burning of the White House passed without much hullabaloo last week, aside from the British Embassy in Washington, DC, having to apologize for their tweet that in questionable taste joked they’d only be lighting the President’s home with sparklers on a cake this time.

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Baroque Masterpiece by Guercino Stolen from Italian Church

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 14, 2014

This week, a large 17th-century Baroque painting by Italian artist Guercino went missing in the northern Italian city of Modena.

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Criminals Love Weapons, Drugs, and … Art

by Jillian Steinhauer July 22, 2014July 25, 2014

Art theft is the third-highest grossing criminal trade in the world, preceded only by drugs and weapons. This claim comes from a smart, extensive Newsweek article covering a three-day conference held at New York University Law School last month called “Art Crime and Cultural Heritage: Fakes, Forgeries, and Looted and Stolen Art.”

Posted inIn Brief

Stolen Matisse Returned to Venezuela

by Jillian Steinhauer July 8, 2014

A Matisse painting valued at $3 million was returned to Venezuela yesterday, after disappearing from an art museum there at least a decade prior, Reuters reported.

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Gathering the Phantoms of Lost Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 28, 2014January 31, 2014

Art history is very much a haunted field, with the specters of works obliterated, lost, hidden, or just vanished floating around it. Our visual culture is defined as much by destruction as it is by creation.

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Three Arrests Made in Major Holland Art Heist

by Kyle Chayka January 23, 2013

In October, seven works of art worth tens of millions of dollars, by artists ranging from Picasso to Matisse, Gauguin, and Lucian Freud, were stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in Holland at 3 am. Three people have now been arrested in connection with the heist.

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A New Possible Lead in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 10, 2012May 16, 2012

The Hartford Courant reports that one of the world’s great unsolved art thefts may have a new lead.

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