Crime U.S. Recovers Monet and Warhol Linked to Fugitive Financier Jho Low The Malaysian businessman still faces federal charges from the alleged 1MDB fraud. He's believed to be in China. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 26, 2024
Crime Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Is Out of Prison—and Planning a Comeback 'I'd like to get re-established as an art dealer," he says in a splashy new magazine feature. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 28, 2024
Crime U.S. Returns Paintings Purloined From Peru, After Journalist Spots Them at Auction The works were stolen more than a decade ago; both turned up at a New York auction house. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2024
Crime Rijksmuseum Chief Calls for Return of Thrice-Stolen Frans Hals Ahead of Major Show The location of the painting has been unknown since its theft in August 2020. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 13, 2024
Crime The First Suspect in a Massive Canadian Art Fraud Is Sentenced Gary Lamont will spend five years in jail for his role in a 13-year forgery scheme. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 15, 2023
Crime Thieves Stole More Than $1 Million Worth of Parts From an Anselm Kiefer Sculpture Thieves are enticed by the value of the raw material not the artwork itself, even though the latter is much higher. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 4, 2023
Crime A Stolen $100,000 Chagall Print Might Actually Be Worth Far Less A band of thieves made off with the lithograph from a New York City gallery in September. By Adam Schrader, Dec 1, 2023
Crime A New Podcast Lifts the Lid on the Notorious Theft of a Caravaggio From an Italian Church The series aims to locate the painting, which has been missing since 1969. By Adam Schrader, Nov 30, 2023
Crime The Art Institute of Chicago’s Ex-Payroll Manager Is Sentenced for Embezzling $2 Million Michael Maurello has also been ordered to pay restitution to the museum. By Adam Schrader, Nov 20, 2023
Crime A Cruise Ship Claims a Vacationing Couple Stole Sculptures From Its Gallery While at Sea One of the suspects was identified after the FBI searched through photos on his Facebook profile. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 17, 2023
Crime Police Are Searching for Thieves Who Stole a $100,000 Chagall Print Video footage shows the suspects carrying the print in the rain before loading it into the back of a car. By Adam Schrader, Nov 14, 2023
Crime Four Men in the U.K. Have Been Charged With the Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s $6 Million Gold Toilet Sculpture The current state of the 18-carat gold sculpture, however, is not known. By Adam Schrader, Nov 7, 2023
Crime Utah Authorities Have Charged Four People for Allegedly Stealing $1 Million Worth of Dinosaur Bones The illegal shipments were bound for China, allegedly marked as “industrial stone” and “landscape rock." By Adam Schrader, Nov 7, 2023
Crime An Art Dealer Who Allegedly Headed a Trafficking Ring That Sold Egyptian Antiquities to the Louvre and the Met Has Been Arrested Serop Simonian has been extradited from Hamburg to Paris and put in pre-trial detention. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 1, 2023
Crime Police in Spain Seized Greco-Scythian Artifacts That Were Allegedly Stolen From Ukraine—But Experts Doubt Their Authenticity The authorities say the total value of the objects exceeds $63 million. By Adam Schrader, Oct 25, 2023