Art Theft

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…

A joint operation led by the Mexican government has recovered several 16th-century manuscripts reportedly stolen from the National Archives in Mexico. The manuscripts in question are historical documents of importance, including a letter…

Raffaele Imperiale, a wanted fugitive from an Italian crime syndicate has been arrested in Dubai on the suspicions of buying stolen van Gogh works. Raffaele Imperiale is considered by the police to be a major crime figure. He has been…