Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for 2018 theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir

Paintings worth $400,000 that were stolen from a storage truck on 14 December 2022 have been located in a Colorado hotel room

Police are investigating the theft of five paintings from a vehicle in a hotel car park

The suspect has not been identified by police, but is likely to be an environmental activist who told press that he intended to auction the work in support of the Ukrainian army

Theft from a Baroque oratory in 1969 remains "an open wound", says commissioning body

The work is one of seven the artist created in war-torn areas of the country last month

Verdict for the owners of Belle et Belle is expected in November

The painting, which was missing for more than 30 years after it was cut from its frame and stolen, made a stop at the Getty Center in Los Angeles for restoration

Staff at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa noticed that the frame of the 1941 photograph did not match others in its reading room

Weeping Woman is one of the star works in the new exhibition Picasso Century at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria

The painting was sliced from its frame and torn from its backing in a daylight robbery at the University of Arizona Museum of Art on Thanksgiving Day in 1985

Following a 16-year-long case, involving stolen national treasures offered at auction in 2020, experts say more resources are needed to help people avoid unwittingly selling looted items

NFTs are a major new economy and with every major new economy, there is a big new scam

Decision follows years of uncertainty around dwindling enforcement funding

Steve Kough also stole three paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1982—while on trial for conspiracy to distribute marijuana

Figures indicate fewer museum thefts, more illegal excavations

Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings

Memorial sculpture, valued at $80,000, may have been stolen so the metal could be sold to a scrapyard

The charges against her stemmed from the fraudulent sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture to a Hong Kong collector, while a similar claim against her over a Warhol portrait remains in German court

During an interrogation with Greek police, a construction worker explains what drove him to commit a brazen heist in 2012

Authorities have reportedly arrested a man after the paintings were found in a gorge

A slashed Velázquez and a burnt Banksy achieved notoriety, but vandalism in the name of the NFT faces ethical hurdles

New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art

Around £1m worth of artefacts were taken from Arundel Castle in West Sussex on Friday

The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life

Carabinieri's recovery of the San Galgano collection of “unprecedented importance”

The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums

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