Museum theft
Another object has been stolen from the British Museum—but this time by an artist
Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum’s collection
Theft of Bronze Age gold artefacts from UK museum sparks fresh concerns about lack of government investment in sector
A bracelet and torc dating back thousands of years were taken from Cambridgeshire’s Ely Museum last week, shining a light on underfunding and its potential impact on security
Final suspect in string of art and memorabilia heists that nabbed works by Pollock and Warhol surrenders
All nine suspects in the string of heists, which spanned 20 years, are now in federal custody
Man pleads guilty to stealing original Wizard of Oz ruby slippers from Judy Garland museum
The film-famous footwear disappeared from a museum in the actress's Minnesota childhood home in 2005
British Museum imposes 'emergency security measures' after staff member allegedly steals priceless artefacts
The museum in London is reckoning with a huge security breach after admitting that jewellery and gems dating back millennia had been removed from its storeroom without detection
Swiss court sentences former museum cashier for embezzling more than $1m
The 54-year-old woman used ticket-sale tricks at the Fondation Beyeler near Basel to fund luxury cars and holidays
Suspects arrested in theft of gold coins from German museum
The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century
Ukrainian art dealer found guilty of stealing £1.3m Paul Signac from French museum
Vadym Huzhva handed a five-year sentence for 2018 theft and for stealing four other paintings in France, including a Renoir
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s head of security is running for statewide office in Massachusetts
Anthony Amore, who has overseen security at the Gardner for 17 years, is running as a Republican to be the Bay State’s auditor
The shocking story of a Picasso painting that was brazenly stolen and held at ransom by the 'Australian Cultural Terrorists'
Weeping Woman is one of the star works in the new exhibition Picasso Century at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria
Last photograph of Lucian Freud’s stolen Francis Bacon portrait published for first time
Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings
Thieves steal rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution
Around £1m worth of artefacts were taken from Arundel Castle in West Sussex on Friday
Dutch police arrest over Van Gogh smash-and-grab raid: how long until the landscape is recovered?
The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums
Can Netflix help solve the Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist?
Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration
German police arrest three suspects in Dresden jewel heist investigation
More than 1,600 police officers take part in raids in Berlin to solve violent theft from Dresden’s Green Vault
Criminal claims 13 works from legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist are hidden in a Dublin house
BBC4 documentary—released today—unpicks theory that the stolen art was shipped to Ireland
Asian art museum located in Israeli kibbutz targeted by thieves
14th-century Buddha and Tang Dynasty sculpture among 27 works stolen by masked burglars from Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday night
Van Gogh held hostage: private detective tells us he has more photographs
Will Arthur Brand’s images of the stolen painting lead to a recovery?
Don't let your guard down: three things you can do now to protect your art during the pandemic
With sparse personnel and visitors, some criminals will try to see if the “closed” sign actually means “open”, say K2 Intelligence FIN's art crime experts
In recent decades 28 Van Goghs have been stolen in the Netherlands—but all have been recovered
Detectives are intensifying their investigation into the latest crime, at Laren’s Singer museum, which was committed this week on the artist’s birthday
Man who stole painting in broad daylight from Moscow museum is sentenced to three years in prison
Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says
Works of art vanish from Kinshasa
The change of regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo coincided with thefts from the Institut des Musées Nationaux
Miniature altar destroyed by thieves at the V&A
Grab and smash operation on 11 November