Crime Notorious Los Angeles Art Dealer Douglas Chrismas Has Been Charged With Embezzling $260,000 From His Former Gallery The 77-year-old dealer has been sued dozens of times. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 29, 2021
Crime Once Smuggled Out of Iraq, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet Has Been Seized by U.S. Authorities and Will Be Returned The U.S. is restituting 17,000 looted antiquities to Iraq, including the tablet, which was once owned by collector Steve Green. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 28, 2021
Crime Foiled! How Advanced Technology Is Stopping Art Thieves, Looters, and Fraudsters From Hatching Their Schemes Developments in the tech sector are giving law enforcement agencies new tools to combat art crime around the world. By Brian Boucher, Jul 27, 2021
Crime A British Art Restorer Has Been Arrested for His Role in a $143 Million Asian Antiquities Smuggling Ring Neil Perry Smith is the second person to be arraigned in the case. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 21, 2021
Crime The FBI Has Busted a Man for Hawking Fake Basquiats After Catching Him Red-Handed During a WhatsApp Sting The works were offered to two New York auction houses. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 12, 2021
Crime Art Collective Forensic Architecture Has Teamed Up With Edward Snowden to Investigate a Shadowy Global Spyware Company The collective believes that "digital violence" is the most important unexamined human rights violation of our time. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2021
Crime Grifter Heiress Angela Gulbenkian Has Pleaded Guilty to Scamming Collectors Out of Payments for Art They Never Received The art dealer never delivered a $1.4 million Kusama pumpkin to one paying client. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 8, 2021
Crime Authorities Have Recovered Picasso and Mondrian Paintings That Were Brazenly Stolen From a Greek Museum Nearly 10 Years Ago A Picasso portrait and a Mondrian landscape were stolen from Greece's National Gallery in 2012. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 29, 2021
Crime Italian Authorities Have Seized Nearly 800 Illicit Ancient Artifacts Worth $13 Million From a Single Belgian Collector The probe has been ongoing since 2017. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 22, 2021
Crime Police Accuse ‘Disloyal Employees’ of Stealing $30 Million Worth of Art From the Italian Broadcast Company Rai The trove, pilfered over the course of several decades, includes works by Monet and Modigliani. By Caroline Goldstein, Jun 14, 2021
Crime Vandals Used White Paint to Deface New York’s Black Wall Street Gallery on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre The gallery was originally founded in Tulsa, and opened its SoHo outpost in October. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 2, 2021
Crime Thieves Broke Into an English Castle and Swiped $1.4 Million in Royal Artifacts, Including Mary Queen of Scots’ Rosary Sussex police are still looking for the culprits. By Caroline Goldstein, May 24, 2021
Crime German Police Have Arrested the Final Suspect—a Fugitive Twin—in the Shocking $1 Billion Dresden Green Vault Heist The fugitive's twin brother, also a suspect, is already in police custody. By Sarah Cascone, May 19, 2021
Crime Florida Just Made It a Felony to Damage Confederate Monuments as Part of Its Controversial New ‘Public Disorder’ Law Protesters who damage historic property will now face harsher punishments, including prison sentences. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 22, 2021
Crime The U.S. Returns 33 Antiquities Stolen From Afghanistan That Are Linked to Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor To date, the D.A. has repatriated more than 2,500 works connected with the former art dealer. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 20, 2021
