Art Crimes
Only Five Works From the Gurlitt Art Nest Have Been Confirmed As Art Stolen By Nazis
A task force took two years and nearly $2 million to investigate more than 1,200 pieces found in a Munich apartment
A Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln’s Hand Has Been Stolen From an Illinois Museum
The 150-year-old plaster art piece went missing sometime before December 11
Could This Video Solve One of History's Greatest Art Mysteries?
Footage shows an unknown man entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum the night before the infamous robbery
Where Do Important Ivory Artifacts Fit in the Race to Save Elephants from Poaching?
The fight against poaching and trafficking came to a head in Times Square last week with the destruction of a one-ton cache of illegal ivory
Destroyed Buddha Statues Are Coming Back to Life in Afghanistan as Beautiful 3D Projections
3D light projections recreate a pair of statues destroyed by the Taliban
Museums Issue Most-Threatened List of Iraqi Treasures
Seven types of cultural objects are under threat from the Islamic State and instability in Iraq
A Computer Can Tell Real Jackson Pollocks From Fakes
Genuine Pollacks really are distinguishable from random splatters of paint—there's now software to prove it
Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
In Egypt, Antiquities Looters Use Bulldozers
Three years after the revolution, technology and diplomacy are being used to combat looters
Prehistoric Rock Art Defaced in Utah
Visitors to Nine Mile Canyon decided to leave more than footprints at the longest art gallery in the world
Spoons Stolen from President Garfield's Tomb
Something's rotten in Cleveland
This May Have Been the Worst Diamond Heist in History
An Albuquerque museum was robbed of a diamond that was returned the next day
How Three Amateur Jewel Thieves Made Off With New York’s Most Precious Gems
The fascinating story of the hunt for Murf the Surf, a criminal who wasn’t quite the mastermind he made himself out to be
The Goddess Goes Home
Following years of haggling over its provenance, a celebrated statue once identified as Aphrodite, has returned to Italy
Stolen: How the Mona Lisa Became the World’s Most Famous Painting
One hundred years ago, a heist by a worker at the Louvre secured Leonardo’s painting as an art world icon
Rogues Gallery
Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era
Forensic Science for Antiques
Revealing art secrets—and exposing forgeries
Showcasing Shams
At the Museum of Fakes, what's not real is still art
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