06/03/2002. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.- Sears, Roebuck and Co. will get back its Andrew Wyeth watercolor titled "The Studio" that was stolen in 1967 from the Sears-Vincent Price Gallery at 140 E. Ontario St. Leo Wagner, a former antiques dealer, relinquished h...

03/13/2004. SCOTLAND.- Edward Black of The Scotsman reported that an art dealer has been charged by the American authorities with masterminding a multi-million-pound scam <BOLETIN> in which he conned collectors and auction houses, inclu...

03/15/2004. NEW YORK.- Brian Ross and Jill Rackmill of the ABCNEWS reported that two Polaroid photos in a plain envelope with no return address arrived by mail at their office in New York which could provide clues into a heist the FBI calls t...

11/21/2006. NEWARK, NJ.-Leslie G. Wiser, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and J.P Weis, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today,...

01/03/2007. NOVEMBER Österreichische Galerie Belvedere opened Enlightened Bourgeois - Portraits from Gainsborough to Waldmüller 1750 –1840. The Whitney Museum of American Art opened Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World. Art Colo...

08/01/2007. WASHINGTON, DC.-The FBI today announced an addition to its Top Ten Art Crimes list. A Cavalier was stolen on June 10, 2007, from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The self-portrait, by Dutch Master Frans Van Mieris (1635-1...

08/12/2008. NEW YORK, NY.- Talk about a surprising discovery. In 2006, a treasure trove of all kinds of art work—some of which has subsequently been identified as stolen—was uncovered in a New York City apartment. In an effort to track down the ...

09/02/2011. WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- In the decade before 9/11, a period when terrorists bombed the World Trade Center for the first time in 1993 and then U.S. embassies in Africa, most Americans had never heard of Osama bin Laden. Even when he declared...

12/10/2012. WASHINGTON (AP).- Just six blocks from the White House, the FBI's hulking headquarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue has long been the government building everyone loves to hate. The verdict: It's an ugly, crumbling concrete behemoth, an arc...

02/08/2015. This Sunday, February 8, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College 1975 art theft, a case that was reopened by the FBI and Amherst College in 2014. On February 8, 1975, in response to an anonymous tip received at M...

01/19/2018. The former CIA agent arrested in the United States earlier this week on suspicion of helping Chinese spies was a security guard at Christie's in Hong Kong, the auction house said Thursday. Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, a naturalised US ...

04/13/2018. A painting by Marc Chagall stolen 30 years ago from a New York couple's apartment has been recovered and is being returned to the family's estate, the FBI said Thursday. The 1911 painting, "Othello and Desdemona," was stolen in 1988 along with oth...

09/13/2018. A Renoir painting stolen by the Nazis from a Paris bank vault was returned to its rightful owner Wednesday after a more than 70-year odyssey from South Africa to London, Switzerland and New York. "Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin," painted in 1919 in th...

04/02/2019. Christie’s confirmed it has facilitated the successful return of a 17th century Dutch Old Master painting confiscated by the Nazis from a renowned French private collection in 1943 during th...

04/03/2019. Descendants of a Jewish Parisian art collector are welcoming the return to their family of a rediscovered masterpiece -- a 17th century painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. Michel Vernay, 71, and his brother Laurent, 65, traveled from...