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Brazil police find two more stolen paintings
21st Aug, 2008Brazilian police say they've recovered two stolen paintings but have yet to find a missing Picasso from a Sao Paulo art museum heist in June. Click for more...
FBI seeks owners of stolen art
21st Aug, 2008The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reaching out to the public in an effort to locate the rightful owners of works from the estate of an Upper East Side art collector. Click for more...
American museums set rules against looting
21st Aug, 2008Museums should make ownership history records publicly available for all ancient art and archaeological artifacts in their collections and rigorously research new acquisitions, according to guidelines released Monday by the American Association of Museums Click for more...
Stolen art trial starts
21st Aug, 2008The trial began yesterday in Boston in the case against Robert Mardirosian, a retired lawyer accused of trying to sell seven paintings stolen from the home of Michael Bakwin in 1978. Click for more...
Germany thanks Russia for return of looted art
21st Aug, 2008Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union returned 1.5 million art treasures looted at the end of World War II to East Germany. Twenty-eight German museums are staging a series of exhibitions to say thank you. Click for more...
Chicago museums weigh African artifacts controversy
8th Aug, 2008The Art Institute's recently opened exhibit "Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria" has thrust Chicago into an international debate over the rightful ownership of African art held in western museums. Click for more...
Chief Nazi-Loot Researcher in Germany Sees Art Claims Mounting in Germany
7th Aug, 2008The head of a new government agency charged with researching the provenance of art in public collections has said German museums harboring hundreds of artworks looted by the Nazis will face further claims for restitution. Click for more...
Ukraine laments theft of a Caravaggio from museum
7th Aug, 2008Art experts in Ukraine have lamented the theft of a work by 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio from a museum, describing it as a cultural catastrophe for ex-Soviet states. Click for more...
Gang jailed for £80m stately home raids
7th Aug, 2008Five members of a organised crime family behind a string of raids on stately homes, including Britain's biggest domestic burglary, have each been jailed for up to 11 years. Click for more...
Hitler art collection online
6th Aug, 2008Nearly 5,000 artworks collected by Adolf Hitler can now be seen online at a virtual museum originally established to help locate the legal heirs of stolen works. Click for more...
Paintings recovered after 32 years
28th Jul, 2008Three oil paintings, valued at $1 million and stolen 32 years ago during an armed home invasion, have been returned to the heir of the original owner after being taken to a local art appraiser. Click for more...
Pop art stolen from Swedish museum
21st Jul, 2008Five paintings by U.S. pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were stolen from a museum close to Stockholm early this morning. The stolen pieces have a value of 3 million kronor ($503,000). Click for more...
Brazil police find stolen Picasso
21st Jul, 2008Police in Brazil have recovered an engraving by Pablo Picasso that was stolen from a museum in Sao Paulo. Click for more...
Art Loss Register recovers work stolen in New York
21st Jul, 2008The Art Loss Register has recovered a Mario Carreño painting that was stolen from a New York law firm in 1993. Click for more...
French Man Pleads Guilty in Art Heist
15th Jul, 2008A French citizen pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell four valuable paintings stolen from a Nice, France, art museum last year in a high-profile heist that led investigators from Europe to Florida and back again. Click for more...
Experts examine books at Folio suspect's home
14th Jul, 2008Experts on rare and antiquarian books were called in yesterday to help police search through a mountain of tomes found at the home of a man arrested in connection with the theft of a £15m First Folio edition of William Shakespeare's works Click for more...
Bard's stolen folio is found
14th Jul, 2008A 400-year-old first-folio edition of William Shakespeare's works that was stolen from Durham University Library a decade ago has been recovered following an international operation involving literary experts in Washington DC and British detectives. Click for more...
Let's all have tickets to the universal museum
10th Jul, 2008In an article in The Times, Ben Macintyre suggests ancient art objects need to be shared around the world. Click for more...
US returns looted artefacts to Colombia
10th Jul, 2008More than 60 artefacts - some more than 2,000 years old - have been returned to Colombia. An Italian living in Miami has pleaded guilty to the sale and receipt of stolen goods. Click for more...
Greek sea could be looted by divers
10th Jul, 2008Legislation allowing divers increased access to Greece's coastline has raised fears that archaeological riches will be taken by ruthless thieves. Click for more...
Skulls return to Australia from Scottish collection
8th Jul, 2008A fragment of bone one tenth of an inch long,the tiny stirrup bone of an ancient Aborigine woman in a Scottish collection, is on its way home.The fragment of bone is among the crude haul of trophies looted from the outposts of the British Empire. Click for more...
Eight more sites on UNESCO World Heritage List
8th Jul, 2008Eight new sites have joined the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), it was announced today. Click for more...
Missing bird's mysterious return
8th Jul, 2008A small bronze sparrow which was part of a Tracey Emin sculpture which had gone missing from its home in Liverpool has been returned. Click for more...
Stop the appeasement of art and antiquities thieves
8th Jul, 2008An article in Canada's Globe and Mail claims museums give criminals incentives to steal and steal again by paying ransoms for art works Click for more...
New website to help track down stolen property
7th Jul, 2008ARTART@T of France, an organisation that helps track stolen artworks, has just launched the its website Stolen-and-Wanted.com, a free-to-access database of stolen artworks. Click for more...
Egypt retrieves ancient stone relief from auction
3rd Jul, 2008Egypt has retrieved a 2,500-year-old limestone relief from London after its sale was blocked by Bonhams auction house because it had been looted from a pharaoh's tomb. Click for more...
US lawsuit to confiscate Schiele's Portrait of Wally suspended
3rd Jul, 2008Judgement has been postponed on a long standing claim about the ownership of Egon Schiele's 'Portrait of Wally' to allow the Government to review new evidence. Click for more...
