Businessman involved in fraudulent Alaska Native artwork scheme given longest sentence ever handed down to someone violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act
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On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
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The bizarre, true story of the world’s greatest living art thief
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FBI raids Orlando museum and seized all twenty-five works in their Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition after an affidavit called into question their origin and their authenticity
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The twenty-five greatest art heists of all time
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Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
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The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words “racist fish”
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Banksy mural stolen from Bataclan concert hall in Paris found by police in a farmhouse in Italy
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Police have launched an investigation after art thieves in the Swedish capital stole pieces by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali
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Unknown vandals scrawled 'Free Hong Kong' in red paint on the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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Thieves steal a famous painting from an Italian church — But don't worry, it's fake
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The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief - Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums and amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion
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He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for thirty-six deaths there.
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The great Chinese art heist
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The great Chinese art heist
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The Pros and Cons of Stealing Fine Art
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‘Ivan the Terrible’ painting damaged in Russia in vodka-fueled attack
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French museum discovers more than half its collection is forged
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