Art theft

Debates begin over supposed Nazi treasure train

In the past week, the media has been abuzz with news of the German train supposedly discovered in a tunnel near Walbrzych, Poland, and the ground-penetrating radar images that appear to confirm the potentially invaluable find. Local legend has it that at the end of World War II, an armored train car...

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Weird Provenance

We all know that missing artwork has the habit of turning up in odd places: in a cemetery, on eBay, in the parking lot of a psychiatric hospital, even inside the bathroom of the museum from which it was stolen.  But inside of a former meth lab? While searching a condemned apartment that had been [&...

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Pop Culture Reference: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft played an unexpected role in this past Monday’s episode of The Blacklist – the NBC show starring James Spader as a criminal mastermind who offers to help the FBI catch some of the world’s most nefarious and elusive bad guys (and ladies). Spader’s cha...

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