Crime A Serial Art Thief Has Been Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Stealing a Van Gogh and Frans Hals Worth a Combined $20 Million Neither painting has been recovered, a factor that played into judges' decision to give the maximum sentence. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 27, 2021
Crime Robert ‘Bobby’ Gentile, Long Fingered by the FBI as a Suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist, Dies at 85 "His passing might make people less inhibited about talking," says the museum's chief investigator. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 23, 2021
Crime New York Dealer Gets Busted for Selling Hundreds of Brazenly Fake ‘Cookie-Cutter’ Antiquities, Says Manhattan D.A. Authorities have been homing in on looted artifacts. Then they got a tip about fake ones. By Eileen Kinsella, Aug 26, 2021
Crime Alleged Mafioso Raffaele Imperiale, Who Was Linked to a Van Gogh Museum Heist 20 Years Ago, Has Been Arrested in Dubai Two paintings stolen from the museum in 2002 were found stashed away in a property owned by Imperiale. By Naomi Rea, Aug 23, 2021
Crime Berlin Police Have Nabbed Yet Another Suspect in the Shocking $1 Billion Green Vault Heist of 2019 The suspect is the sixth to be arrested in the case. By Artnet News, Aug 20, 2021
Crime Gunshots Were Fired at a Dutch Museum as Two Thieves Tried to Steal a Monet Painting—and Then Dropped It on the Way Out No one was injured in the botched heist. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 16, 2021
Crime Disgraced Former Art Dealer Angela Gulbenkian Has Been Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Fraudulently Selling a Kusama Work The socialite sold a $1.4 million Kusama sculpture that she never delivered. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 29, 2021
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 28, 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
