Crime A Painting Stolen From a Museum in Glasgow Has Been Returned After More Than 30 Years The work by Robert Gemmell Hutchison was reportedly worth about $9,721 when it was taken, in 1989. By Adam Schrader, Oct 20, 2023
Crime After 80 Years, a Long-Lost Painting Looted by U.S. Soldiers During World War II Has Been Returned to Germany An anonymous tipster called Art Recovery International to admit their uncle had stolen the painting from a German museum. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 20, 2023
Crime Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand Has Recovered Six Stolen Paintings From a Mysterious Man With a Van Brand’s latest score comes just over a month after he brought home a stolen van Gogh in an Ikea bag. By Artnet News, Oct 17, 2023
Crime A Minnesota Man Has Pleaded Guilty to Stealing ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Ruby Slippers From the Judy Garland Museum At the time of the theft in 2005, Terry Jon Martin believed that the slippers included actual rubies. By Max Berlinger, Oct 17, 2023
Crime An American Tourist Who Went on a Sculpture-Smashing Rampage at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum Has Been Arrested The suspect's lawyer blames Jerusalem syndrome. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 6, 2023
Crime A String of Burglaries Targeting Security Vulnerabilities Have Stripped a Cologne Museum of Objects Worth Millions Most recently, thieves entered through a poorly repaired window to take nine pieces of valuable Chinese porcelain. By Adam Schrader, Oct 4, 2023
Crime A Rogue Curator at the Palace of Versailles Was Found Guilty of Conducting Private Tours of the Estate That Earned Him $26,000 The curator was suspended, until a regional court recently overturned the palace's disciplinary action. By Richard Whiddington, Oct 3, 2023
Crime The Great Wall of China Has Suffered ‘Irreversible’ Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relic The pair have been detained and charged with destroying a cultural relic. By Adam Schrader, Sep 28, 2023
Crime A German Museum Employee Has Been Caught ‘Shamelessly’ Swapping Original Paintings for Fakes to Fund His Lavish Lifestyle The man is said to have spent the money on a new apartment, wristwatches, and a Rolls-Royce. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 25, 2023
Crime Disgraced Dealer Inigo Philbrick’s Co-Conspirator, Robert Newland, Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison Newland, who helped Philbrick execute and perpetuate the massive fraud, will serve just over one and a half years in jail. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 20, 2023
Crime A New Documentary Revisits a Knotty, Unresolved Forgery Scandal that Rocked Australia’s Art World The two-part program investigates the suspected forgery of artworks attributed to Brett Whiteley and the ripple effects that followed. By Artnet News, Sep 19, 2023
Crime The Family of Billionaire Collector George Lindemann Has Returned $20 Million Worth of Looted Antiquities to Cambodia The precious antiquities were discovered by Cambodian investigators thanks to a 2008 photo spread in 'Architectural Digest.' By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 13, 2023
Crime A Vincent van Gogh Painting Stolen From a Dutch Museum Three Years Ago Has Just Been Returned—in an Ikea Bag The 1884 painting was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in 2020. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2023
Crime Fake Celebrities, Code Names, and ‘Stuffing’: Inigo Philbrick’s Collaborator Reveals the Elaborate Plots They Used to Con Collectors Out of Millions 'I’d quickly come to learn that a fair amount of deception was accepted practice in the art world,' disgraced dealer Robert Newland said. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 12, 2023
Crime A London Auctioneer Has Pleaded Guilty to Forging Provenance Documentation to Sell Ancient Coins Worth Millions Richard Beale, owner of Roma Numismatics, now faces up to 25 years in prison. By Artnet News, Sep 11, 2023
