Earlier this year, in March to be exact, several paintings from well-known artists were stolen quickly and efficiently from a museum outside Parma, Italy. Let’s find out what happened next.

This post is going to tackle an interesting question, what should museums and galleries do once they realize they have fakes or forgeries in their collections? And what do they do with pieces that they can’t verify the provenance of but don’t know for sure that they’re fake?

I seem to be writing a lot about jewelry lately, but this case is insane, and the title is a little misleading (sorry), but it’s about how the US let a notorious thief slip through their fingers.

Hatton Garden, a shopping street in London’s Camden neighbourhood, is the city’s principal diamond and jewelry quarter. There are over 300 businesses and 90 shops in the jewelry industry, representing the largest cluster of jewelry retailers in the UK. 

When I think of Rodin sculptures, I think of things like The Thinker, The Kiss and The Gates of Hell, large-scale bronze art pieces that live either outside or in a very large indoor space. So when I heard that a museum had misplaced one of his works, I was baffled.

I bet you can already tell from the title who we’re going to be talking about (again) today, Arthur Brand. If he wasn’t around, I truly don’t know what I’d even write about!

Usually when a painting has an unconfirmed artist, unconfirmed creation location, and even no information about who commissioned the piece it isn’t very valuable, so why did London’s National Gallery purchase one just like that for $20 million? 

As the title would suggest, we’re going to talk about a painting today that was stolen in 1988, recovered in 2018, and the long, winding road it took to finally get it back.

Sometimes referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World”, Russia’s Amber Room seemingly disappeared without a trace during WWII, and people have been trying to find it since.

Shelby White and her husband, Leon Levy, are incredibly prominent collectors of antiquities and ancient art. They are also massive donors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but where did all their pieces come from?

I know that art isn’t the point of the Epstein files, and I hope every single one of the absolutely vile people mentioned in them gets exactly what they deserve. Still, they do reveal to us some interesting things about how the ultrawealthy use and leverage art.

Well, the Indiana Jones of the art world, Arthur Brand, has done it again. This time he was able to rescue a precious mosaic long thought to be lost forever.

From the Medieval era to the Renaissance to now, people have grappled with the potential of not being alone in the universe. Aliens, UFOs, and other mysterious figures and crafts have appeared in paintings throughout history, or have they?

In early 1969 a crate arrived from Paris at Boston’s Logan International Airport, bound for Milwaukee, where it seemed to vanish. Until it made a sudden and puzzling reappearance on April Fools Day of the same year.

In 2010, two paintings were stolen from the home of a wealthy private art collector. They would remain missing for the next 14 years.

This should come as no shock to anyone, but the reputation of The Met continues to erode as they keep repatriating artifacts and objects to their countries of origin, claiming not to be aware of the nefarious ways in which they arrived at the museum in the first place.

I know this title sounds crazy but I promise you I’m telling the truth! This all originates from what Greece calls the “Theft of the Century”. 

A lot of people were asking me to write about this one and tbh I was just waiting until we had more information and some clarity around it, but we’ve waited long enough. So allons-y! 

Remember the guy that’s called the Indiana Jones of the art world? Yeah, he’s making an appearance in this one. 17 years after the legendary ring disappeared from Oxford University, there were some developments.

Unfortunately, no, we’re not talking about times when dinosaurs perpetrated acts of vandalism. We will be diving into an interesting case of potential museum-on-museum crime.