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Yale Stolen Paintings Recovered
Three stolen works of art were recovered, along with nearly 40 other stolen paintings, firearms, heroin, marijuana, and cash, in a New Haven home. T…
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Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, The Netherlands: "Bling bling" museum theft and religious art
by Jacobiene Kuijpers, ARCA 2013 Student On 29 January of 2013 at half past two in the afternoon, two young men dressed in black and wearing balaclav…
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CCTV footage released of suspects who stole two iconic Māori paintings in Auckland, NZ
Image Credit: Auckland City Police CCTV footage released by Auckland City Police shows blurry images of two men, wearing bandanas, black gloves and d…
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The Four Horses Rest Inside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice after Being Plundered from Constantinople in the 13th century
Four Horses in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice by Judge Arthur Tompkins, ARCA Lecturer Constantinople, or Byzantium, had been founded by Constant…
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Recovered: Ring once owned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Note: This article has been revised to include an interview with Arthur Brand at the closure of this article: Engraved with Greek lettering, a gold…
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Two years later and no sign of the Lindauers?
Two years ago, on the morning of Saturday, 1 April 2017, a stolen Ford Courier utility vehicle drove up Parnell Road close to the city centre in Auck…
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Boston University Students Foil Art Gallery Robbery
Galerie D’Orsay owner Susan Hirshberg (CAS’90) with the Questrom students who stopped a robbery at her gallery after the Super Bowl: Chris Savino (Qu…
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Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa robbed
"Street Scene" by Gerard Sekoto was one of the paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum (City of Tishwane, Courtesy of The Los Ange…
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The Scream: 4 Versions, 2 Thefts, 1 Forced Sale
Expressionist artist Edvard Munch created four principle versions of Der Schrei der Natur , one of the world's most recognisable works of art. …
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Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: "Progress in Kunsthal art theft investigation" announced by Rotterdam-Rijnmond Police
Rotterdam-Rijnmond Police in The Netherlands released a press release on their website regarding progress in the investigation of the October 16 burg…
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More on the Security Breakdown in Cairo
The stolen work, "Poppy Flowers" A week ago today the 1887 work Poppy Flowers , by Vincent van Gogh was stolen from a Cairo museum. Hadee…
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Missing masterpiece mystery put art security in the frame
Rob Goodman, reporting for the Evening Post in South Wales, followed up on Catherine's Sezgin's October 24, 2010 article, "Courbet Pain…
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Lecture by Met Chief Security Officer John Barelli at University of Richmond
Interested in hearing more about art theft investigation and security at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Check out "The Myths of Art Thefts &…
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May 19, 1998 - Museum Theft, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
On May 19, 1998 Rome's prestigious Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna was robbed just after the 10 pm closing time. Armed with guns, three thi…
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December 12, 1988 - Museum Theft, Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands
At a time in the late 80s when Van Gogh's paintings were listed on the "Top 10 Prices Paid for Paintings" at two of the world's two…
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