Art and Law Thieves Stole a $3.4 Million Brueghel From a Remote Italian Church—or So They Thought. Here’s How the Village Tricked Them The town's mayor was one of the few people who knew that the real painting was somewhere safe but locals had their suspicions something was up. By Nan Stewert, Mar 13, 2019
Art and Law A Collector Says He Found a Jackson Pollock Painting Once Owned by Fidel Castro. Experts Say It’s a Scam The International Foundation for Art Research says the fake could point to a larger con. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law Cairo Airport Officials Found a Smuggled Mummy’s Limbs Hidden in a Hollowed-Out Loudspeaker X-rays helped officials spot the suspicious package before it could leave the country. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law The ‘Ivory Queen’ Is Sentenced to 15 Years in a Tanzanian Prison for Smuggling Tons of Elephant Tusks Into Asia Chinese-born Yang Feng Glan is being held accountable for her role in the poaching of hundreds of elephants. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 20, 2019
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Evasion The veteran art dealer pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion in September. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 14, 2019
Art World A Dutch Art Detective Tracked Down a Pair of Stolen Medieval Stone Reliefs in an English Aristocrat’s Garden The Visigothic artifacts were stolen from a Spanish church in 2004. By Henri Neuendorf, Jan 22, 2019
Art World A Painting Stolen From a Belgian Church Last Week Might Have Been by Michelangelo An authenticator was set to examine the work the day after it disappeared. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 15, 2019
Art and Law Thieves Make Off With a Painting From New York’s Team Gallery in Broad Daylight After a Half-Mile Chase The gallery has been dusted for prints and police are on the case. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 11, 2019
Art and Law Skateboarding Thieves Stole a Giant $4 Million Coin From a Berlin Museum. Now a Trial Begins—But the Coin’s Still Missing The gang is accused of stealing the giant coin, smashing its bulletproof showcase and escaping using a skateboard and a wheelbarrow. By Kate Brown, Jan 10, 2019
Opinion The Perplexingly Popular Conspiracy Theory That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Connected to #Russiagate, Explained Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Christie's, a new shadowy world order... it all adds up! By Ben Davis, Jan 9, 2019
People ‘She Changed My Life for the Better’: Read the Letters Ai Weiwei and Other Art Figures Wrote to Advocate Leniency for Mary Boone Prominent members of the art world have written letters testifying to the art dealer's character after she pleaded guilty to tax fraud last year. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 9, 2019
Exhibitions More Than 30 Works by Edvard Munch Are Missing From Oslo. Did University Students Steal Them? Works by the famed painter and five other artists disappeared after a loan scheme to a student housing complex. By Javier Pes, Jan 8, 2019
People After Pleading Guilty to Tax Fraud, Mary Boone’s Lawyers Cite Childhood Trauma and Mental Instability in a Bid to Avert Jail Time Industry heavyweights including Jerry Saltz, Ai Weiwei, and Julian Schnabel have also written letters supporting Boone. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 8, 2019
Art World The Ivory Coast Drafts a Long List of the Colonial-Era Works It Wants Back From France As support for repatriation grows, the Ivory Coast is asking France to return 148 works. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 20, 2018
People Artist Subodh Gupta Steps Down as Co-Curator of the Goa Arts Festival Amid Allegations of Sexual Harassment The accusations are the latest from an anonymous Instagram account targeting prominent figures in the Indian art world. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 19, 2018
