Jan 16, 2023 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
The Detroit Institute of Arts is in a legal fight with the alleged owner of a van Gogh painting on display there. The painting, titled “The Novel Reader” or “The Reading Lady,” depending on which art history book you read, is not one of Vincent van Gogh’s better...
Jul 25, 2022 | Art, Museums, New York, News & Trending
Looted artifacts are on their way back to Italy, as New York investigators hand over 142 objects they’ve seized in the past year. A third of the stolen assortment came from the collection of Mr. Steinhardt, a billionaire antiquities collector who was made to...
Oct 13, 2021 | Museums, News & Trending
DNA evidence isn’t usually a part of art theft investigation. But Nils M., a Dutch man, left behind such evidence at not one, but two recent major heists. In March 2020, security footage at the Groninger Museum in Groninger showed a man breaking two glass doors...
Jun 25, 2021 | Art, Museums, News & Trending
Two masterwork paintings recovered almost a decade after a 2012 art heist, according to Greek police. In January 2012, “Woman’s Head” by Pablo Picasso and “Mill” by Piet Mondrian were stolen in a lightning quick raid on the National Gallery of Greece, in Athens....
May 10, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending, Profiles
George Haag asserts that he never intended to steal the portrait of Andy Warhol from the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, back in January. “I did think about stealing it,” he said in an interview in April while awaiting his court date, “but I decided not...
