Art Theft

Almost 150 NFTs from the Bored Ape NFT collection, worth $13,582,962, have been stolen since its inception, a report reveals. Immunefi, a Web3 security firm, released their report on Tuesday which collected data from the launch of Bored…

The Italian police have recovered a portrait by Renaissance artist Titian, nearly two decades since it was seemingly lost. The work was recovered by the Turin branch of the Carabinieri – the cultural heritage unit of the Italian police.…

In a daring daylight heist, three sculptures by artist Ai Weiwei were stolen from an exhibition in Hamburg, Germany earlier this week. On Monday afternoon, a sole perpetrator snatched three artworks by Weiwei from the Lumas Galerie in…

A hacked Instagram account led to a massive attack on the Bored Ape website, leading to the estimated theft of about $3 million worth of NFTs. On Monday morning, the official Instagram account of Bored Ape Yacht Collection posted a link…

Eight people have been sentenced for a 2019 theft of a Banksy mural dedicated to the victims of the 2015 terrorist attack in Bataclan. In 2015, terrorists opened fire at a concert in Bataclan, Paris. While many tried to escape through an…

More than a dozen antiquities, allegedly belonging to disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor, were seized from the art gallery of an Ivy League School. Though the name of the Ivy League School is not yet revealed, it was confirmed that the…

Nearly 40 objects, once belonging to billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt, were recovered by Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and to be returned to Israel. Michael Steinhardt and his wife Judy, once considered one of the most…

An exhaustive investigation spanning across 28 countries by European authorities resulted in recovery of nearly 10,000 artifacts. The artifacts were seized by the Spanish police, who was working alongside Interpol, Europol and World…

An unsolved murder can give new clues about a three-decade-old heist of artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, as per a report. The heist in question took place in the early morning of March 18, 1990. During the…

After five investigations spanning across a decade, 248 looted objects linked to dealer Subhash Kapoor were returned to India. On Thursday, the Manhattan DA’s office announced the return of 248 antiquities to India. These stolen items…