Stealing great art not all it&#39;s painted to be
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The works can be almost impossible to sell, they can end up dumped in the strangest places, you can&#39;t trust anyone. It&#39;s enough to make a thief scream, writes Sarah Lyall.
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The theft of Edvard Munchâs masterpiece The Scream is the latest in a long line of audacious art heists. Some of the worldâs most famous paintings - including
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The brazen daylight theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s renowned masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; left Norway&#39;s police scrambling for clues and stirred a debate across Europe over how to protect art if thieves are willing to use deadly force to take it.
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In many instances, stolen art masterpieces are recovered almost out of the blue, long after investigators have stopped actively pursuing leads.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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A new survey of US artists reveals that while most agree that downloading from file-sharing networks is illegal, yet they admit they themselves download media without paying and have little idea if it is legal or not.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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This is a mirage or a sight to behold. This is something you can&#39;t trust with your own eyes, or maybe what you&#39;re watching is real.
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The Nazis were lousy art critics, but that didnât stop them from stealing art from every country they invaded and every culture they destroyed
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Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations&#39; cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game.
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The daring theft of Edvard Munch&#39;s masterpiece &quot;The Scream&quot; has left the international art world in a state of shock.
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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aboriginal art in Australia is booming and improving the lives of poor black communities, but unscrupulous dealers are ripping off artists and fraud from China and India is undermining the industry.
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Who can deny some fascination with the art heist? If you could, then movies and books that use this sort of crime as a plot device wouldn&#39;t be so plentiful and so popular.
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An art gallery which lost nine Banksy prints in two burglaries offers another piece by the guerilla artist as a reward.
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Being naturally creative, artists often excel at more than just making art. In some cases they so excel that they double up or even switch professions.
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For the second time in 10 years one of the most famous paintings in the world -- &quot;The Scream&quot; by Edvard Munch -- has been stolen from an art gallery in Oslo.
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A show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash invites us to reconsider the virtues of this underrated painter.