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A Reverse Art Heist? Museum Finds Employee’s Painting on Its Wall The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich said it had fired a worker for hanging one of his own pieces in its modern art collection.
Somerville police are investigating an art heist after a masked thief snatched two paintings.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - An artist is asking for help recovering a stolen painting of President Donald Trump after it was taken off the wall of a restaurant in Gainesville.
The $36,000 Lincoln piece that hung at the Hamptons fair had a turbulent history itself! The piece had been damaged in an apparent art heist gone wrong.
For the past 20 years, the renowned security expert has been trying to crack the biggest, unsolved art heist in history at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, when two thieves made off ...
Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne museum announced that it had fired an employee from its technical services team. The man snuck in after hours and hung his own painting.
Art heist movies — think “Ocean’s 8,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” Audrey Hepburn’s “How To Steal a Million” — always capture the imagination, but of course, audacious thefts are ...
How did the painting become part of the museum's collection? Baltimore businessman and art collector Edward Joseph Gallagher Jr. donated "Woman-Ochre" to the university's museum in 1958.
Thirty-three years after the Gardner heist, where are the paintings? “Sooner or later anybody who saw the real picture is going to be dead” ...
On Monday, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich reported a reverse heist of sorts: While it was closed to the public, an employee hung one of his own paintings among the museum’s modern art ...
The Biggest Unsolved Art Heist Happened 35 Years Ago: Why Lead Investigator Believes 'Paintings Will Be Recovered' In 1990, two thieves posing as police officers made off with 13 works of art ...