Theft from a Baroque oratory remains unsolved after 55 years, sparking countless conspiracy theories
Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet
This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum
Their astonishing 1896 exhibition is now being celebrated by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands
Two of the vulnerable works were damaged and abandoned, while two others were apparently too large to fit in the getaway car and so were cut out of their frames
Two men have appeared in court charged with burglary following the theft of a version of 'Girl with Balloon'
Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum’s collection
The oil on wood painting by Eramus Quelliness II was taken in a raid in 1979, though the thieves left behind much more valuable works
The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon
Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary
The haul includes works purportedly by Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich and Natalia Goncharova
Prior to their seizure, the paintings had been offered to the auction house Doyle for consignment
Research reveals that the artist began the work as a winter scene and transformed it into a spring landscape
Tove Langridge faces up to five years in prison if convicted in the criminal case
The author of a new book tells us why it was stolen and how Picasso got embroiled in the scandal
Police in Scottsdale, Arizona, located the suspect using a drone
The theft from Carlton Fine Arts on Madison Avenue has led the gallery’s owner to beef up his security systems, at great expense
The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation
Arthur Brand, who helped to recover a Van Gogh painting last month, says he was watching a "boring football game" when the surprising delivery was made
The company’s case against Oxford-based American papyrist Dirk D. Obbink revolves around ancient papyrus fragments it purchased for its Washington, DC institution, the Museum of the Bible
A single thief allegedly maneuvered the 250-pound sculpture, dating from Japan’s Edo Period, out of the Barakat Gallery’s backyard and into a rental truck
Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer
Three years ago, 'The Parsonage garden at Nuenen in Spring' was taken in a smash-and-grab raid in Laren
Loo worth £5m was removed from Blenheim Palace in 2019
But Hartwig Fischer stepping down is not linked to the alleged thefts, say fresh sources
The items include a piece of Roman jewellery—reportedly worth between £25,000 and £50,000—being offered with a minimum price of £40
Higgs, who was sacked earlier this year, is alleged to have sold uncategorised items from the museum's collection on eBay as early as 2016
The Vermont State Police is looking for any leads regarding the whereabouts of the 150-pound sculpture and another element of the set
The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century
Statements by one member of a crime ring that struck 20 different institutions over two decades have restored hope that not all the loot was destroyed