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Book Review

Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian

Posted on 30 August 2015

An engaging, up-to-date exploration of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum art heist.

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Over 200 Colonial and Republican objects stolen from Guatemalan Museum

Posted on 1 June 2015

On 16 May 2015, the private and unopened Museo Guatemalteco de Arte was robbed.

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Stolen painting? No: poor reporting.

Posted on 18 April 2014

The false theft and return of a fake of my favourite Colonial Latin American painting.

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De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France

Posted on 4 April 2014

12m long manuscript penned in the Bastille, stolen in 1982, smuggled into Switzerland, and ruled a good faith purchase in 1998.

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Screaming mummies and stolen paintings

Posted on 15 February 2012

Is this why people collect human remains?

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