Art World The Art World’s Indiana Jones Tracked Down a Twice-Stolen Ring Once Owned by Oscar Wilde. He Tells Us How He Did It. This tangled tale involves a quartet of elderly gangsters and a custodian-turned-jewelry-thief. By Brian Boucher, 18 hours ago
Art and Law Police Foiled a Brazen Thief Who Tried Sneak Out of a London Museum With Two Rembrandts in Tow The would-be robber evaded arrest by spraying a cop with an unknown substance. By Brian Boucher, Nov 14, 2019
Art and Law 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
Politics The Guerrilla Girls Are Targeting MoMA Trustees Tied to Jeffrey Epstein With an Ad on a Phone Booth Outside the Museum The ad calls out board members Leon Black and Glenn Dubin. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 13, 2019
People A Fugitive Russian Billionaire’s Cache of Art Has Been Discovered in a Village Outside of Moscow A journalist came upon the heap of 20th-century Russian art, which belonged to a private museum, in a storage space. By Brian Boucher, Nov 12, 2019
Art and Law In a Brazen Treasure Heist in France, Thieves Rammed a Medieval Cathedral With a Tree Trunk and Made Off With Precious Artifacts The perpetrators targeted the UNESCO World Heritage Site early on Monday morning. By Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2019
Art and Law Disgraced Financier Jho Low Is Turning Over a Picasso and Basquiat Once Given to Leonardo DiCaprio as Part of a $700 Million Settlement Low's settlement with the US Justice Department is said to be the largest civil forfeiture deal ever. By Julia Halperin, Oct 31, 2019
Art and Law The FBI Has Seized Suspected Nazi-Looted Art From a Little-Known Upstate New York Museum The painting had been in the collection of prominent German patron Rudolf Mosse. By Kate Brown, Oct 24, 2019
Art and Law After the Release of a New Movie on a Notorious Art Fraudster, the FBI Is Seeking the Owner of a Dubuffet Painting Connected to the Case The French-born con man at the heart of the scandal is now the subject of a new BBC documentary. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 11, 2019
Art World What Makes Someone Attack a Work of Art? Here Are 9 of the Most Audacious Acts of Art Vandalism—and What Inspired Them Conservators, here is your trigger warning. By Caroline Goldstein & Katie White, Oct 2, 2019
Art and Law Last Year the Met Spent $4 Million on a Golden Sarcophagus. It Turned Out to Be Looted. Now They Had to Send It Back The return coincides with a new interview with Max Hollein in which the Met director reveals his relatively centrist views on restitution. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 26, 2019
Art and Law Thieves Used Neckties to Steal $2.2 Million in Loot From a French Castle That Helped Inspire Versailles The robbers have yet to be captured. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 23, 2019
Art World How the Filmmakers Behind ‘The Goldfinch’ Built Near-Perfect Replicas of the Met and the Dutch Masterpiece at the Story’s Heart The book and the movie center on the Carel Fabritius painting of the same name. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 17, 2019
Art and Law European Police Are Making Arrests in a String of High-Profile Old Master Forgeries of Cranach, El Greco, and Others An Italian artist has been arrested under suspicion of painting a fake El Greco connected to the Old Master forgery ring. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 13, 2019
Art and Law A Group of Thieves Bungled a Break-In at Anselm Kiefer’s Studio When Trying to Steal One of His Sculptures The criminals were likely trying to strip the work for its lead. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 12, 2019
