Crime Dutch Police Have Arrested a Man Suspected of Brazenly Stealing Paintings by Van Gogh and Hals From Locked-Down Museums The paintings have not yet been recovered. By Caroline Goldstein, Apr 6, 2021
Crime Spanish Police Seized Forged Paintings Attributed to El Greco, Goya, and Modigliani After a Dealer Tried to Sell Them for €12.5 Million Buyers had already lined up for the fake paintings. By Artnet News, Mar 30, 2021
Crime A Netflix True Crime Series Will Investigate the Brazen Robbery of $500 Million in Artworks From the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The docuseries debuts in April. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 12, 2021
Crime Thanks to an Eagle-Eyed Appraiser, the Louvre Has Recovered Renaissance Armor That Was Stolen Almost 40 Years Ago The gold and silver encrusted pieces were gifts from the Rothschild family. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 3, 2021
Crime Have You Seen This Art? Austrian Officials Are Searching for 21 Works That a Priest May Have Swiped From a Benedictine Abbey Authorities have released ads with images of the missing works. By Kate Brown, Feb 3, 2021
Crime An Art Dealer in Milan Has Been Convicted of Trying to Sell a Forged Josef Albers Painting The director of the Josef Albers Foundation deemed the painting a fake in 2016. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2021
Crime French Artist Claude Lévêque’s Work Has Been Pulled From a Museum as Police Investigate His Alleged Abuse of Children Lévêque denies the allegations. By Naomi Rea, Jan 14, 2021
Crime A $1 Million Marsden Hartley That Was Stolen 30 Years Ago and Replaced With a Forgery Is Finally Returning to Its Original Owner The case took some wild twists and turns on its year-long journey through the courts. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 11, 2020
Crime Hong Kong Police Have Recovered a Mao Scroll That Was Stolen as Part of a $645 Million Art Heist—But It’s Been Cut in Half Two men were also arrested this week in connection with the incident, which may be the most valuable art heist in the region's history. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 8, 2020
Crime Thieves Purloin a Frans Hals Painting Valued at $17 Million From a Dutch Museum—for the Third Time The Dutch Golden Age painting of two boys laughing over beers was stolen from the Hofje van Aerden museum in 1988—and again in 2011. By Artnet News, Aug 27, 2020
Crime Who Says Museum Heists Don’t Pay? Here Are 5 Ways Crafty Criminals Actually Profit From High-Profile Art Thefts Stolen art can be a hard sell. We spoke to the experts about what thieves tend do with it. By Naomi Rea, Aug 24, 2020
Crime The FBI Just Raided a Major Art-Forgery Ring Operating Out of a Michigan Barn That Duped Top Experts DB Henkel is accused of masterminding the plot to sell fake paintings by historical American artists. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 9, 2020
Crime A Trove of Artifacts Inscribed With Gibberish Was Intercepted at Heathrow. They May Reveal an Alarming New Front in the War on Forgery British Museum curators explain what makes the new wave of bogus antiquities different. By Taylor Dafoe, May 4, 2020
Crime Thieves Have Stolen Three Old Master Paintings Valued at $12 Million From an Oxford College’s Gallery Works by van Dyck, Salvatore Rosa, and Annibale Carracci are missing after the audacious heist at Christ Church College's Picture Gallery. By Naomi Rea, Mar 16, 2020
Crime A Suspect in the Infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Has Been Released From Prison After 21 Years Daniel Turner was sentenced to time served following his conviction in a separate case. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 14, 2019
