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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a serial brain tissue thief strikes a museum, a suicidal man attacks a Picasso-inspired exhibition, and an art dealer's grandson sues a gallery over a $25 million Modigliani.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a serial brain tissue thief strikes a museum, a suicidal man attacks a Picasso-inspired exhibition, and an art dealer's grandson sues a gallery over a $25 million Modigliani.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a pub's neighbor is peeved about its penis mural, a flying cow sculpture gets grounded in India, and unscrupulous Lincolnalia collectors nab an Abe statue.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: raccoons go on rogue art crawl, artists' work is trapped after a gallery's eviction, and a Star Wars print is swiped by Canadians who've gone over to the dark side.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a cow sculpture gets tipped, Warhol prints get ripped, and Lil Wayne's collection gets raided.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: teens take (and immediately return) a Mr. Brainwash sculpture, Kimye's pastor appropriates Wynwood street art murals, and a shark photographer goes after the new Steve Jobs biopic.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: refugees reject Banksy's gesture, Hobby Lobby family investigated for Iraqi loot acquisition, and art that looks like trash gets tossed.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a magician's public sculpture vanishes, a Basquiat is stolen and returned a few hours later in Paris, and hapless thieves in Florida sign the guestbook of a gallery as they rob it.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Elizabeth Hurley sets off alarms at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Florida man's giant chair sculpture angers neighbors, and Egyptian museum project under investigation for embezzlement.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Forever 21 rips off an artist's work for a T-shirt design, a museumgoer snaps off part of a Dale Chihuly sculpture, and two Goyas go missing.
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On this week's art crime blotter: vandals tag a Munich museum with swastikas, hunters venture onto Texan museum's grounds, and a public sculpture is mysteriously beheaded.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: Warhols go missing in Los Angeles, a papier-mâché cat goes up in flames, and vandals attack a dystopian equestrian sculpture.