Art & Crime
A Banksy stencil of a parachuting rat has been destroyed in the Australian city of Melbourne by a builder who drilled a hole through the work to install a bathroom pipe.Painted around 15 years ago, the parachuting rat stencil located in the Melbourne suburb...
The controversial legal advocate Edward D. Fagan has opened a case against the Czech Republic and its museums on behalf of Michal Klepetar, a Czech national who claims the government is in possession of more than a hundred works of art that were taken...
It stands to reason that you wouldn’t offer alcohol to encourage alcoholics to attend AA meetings or give away guns as an incentive to go to anger management classes. So what possessed the Australian Art Series Hotel Group to offer Andy Warhol forgeries...
William "Billy" Mumford has been found guilty of forging up to 1,000 paintings, and sentenced for two years in jail.Mumford, 63, who copied works by the likes of S.H. Raza, M. F. Husain, and John Tunnard was selling his copies for up to £30,000 on Ebay and at...
What’s one way to keep an airport profitable, despite mounting costs and employee union problems? The managers of Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy Airport decided that what they really need is a few more food stands in the rotunda, and it didn’t matter if a...
Just a week after a Qing Dynasty jade bowl and glaze sculpture worth £1.8 million disappeared from Durham University Oriental Museum, 18 Chinese artefacts have been lifted from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Police said that the break-in occurred last...
A large ornate jade bowl and a glazed porcelain sculpture from the Qing Dynasty have been lifted from the Malcom MacDonald Gallery at Durham University Oriental Museum in North East England. The artifacts have an estimated joint value of £1.8 million ($...
It could be the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: A Viennese art historian believes he has discovered a looted art collection buried in the mountains of Germany — one that includes masterpieces by Monet, Cezanne, and Manet. This May, Burkhart List, 62, will...
The FBI believes that Robert Gentile, a 75-year-old Hartford-based mobster whose criminal record stretches back to the 1950s and who’s currently being held in a Rhode Island prison for selling prescription drugs, may have information that could help solve the...
BERLIN — The arts and culture media were abuzz this week with the announcement on Tuesday that the Berlin leg of the BMW Guggenheim Lab had been cancelled due to threats by leftist groups. The project, a roving think tank about urban issues...
