Italy Art Trafficker Duped U.S. Museums, Police Say
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An Italian antiquities trafficker running  a thriving business out of Switzerland duped some of the  world's most famous auction houses and museums with illegally  acquired artefacts, authorities said on Friday.
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A suspect in last month's brazen theft of two paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari told detectives the paintings were to be delivered to a Saudi collector, authorities said Friday.
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Brazilian police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari that were stolen last month from the country's premier modern art museum, officials said Tuesday.
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Four leading Southern California museums were raided on Thursday by U.S. authorities investigating illegal smuggling of art from Thailand, China, Myanmar and from American Indian tribal lands.
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At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of nearly $66 million, were stolen from the artist's granddaughter's house in Paris, police said
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A Manhattan art gallery owner has  pleaded guilty to fraud charges in an international art forgery  scheme that spanned 15 years, government officials said on  Monday.
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The Italian Culture Ministry and the Princeton University Art Museum signed a deal Tuesday for the return of eight disputed antiquities to Italy Â Rome's latest coup in its efforts to recover treasures it says were looted from the country.
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FLORENCE, Italy  - The loan of one of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings to Japan has caused an uproar in Italy and one senator chained himself to the gates of Florence's Uffizi Gallery on Monday in protest at the transfer.
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ROME - One day a vandal, the next an artist. That is the story of the baseball-capped culprit who dumped a bottle of dye into Rome's famed Trevi Fountain on Friday, turning the waters blood red.
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Take it to your mountaintop fortress, pop open some Chateau Lafite and hang it next to your other stolen masterpieces? Whenever a high-profile art theft occurs, rumors circulate that a scandalously rich collector has commissioned the crime.
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A man accused of stealing two impressionist paintings in the US is jailed for three years.
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Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into counterfeit-wine sales and subpoenaed leading rare wine collectors and top auction houses including Christie's in London and Zachys in New York, according a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday.
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Fake passports created by an Austrian artist for a contemporary museum exhibit were confiscated at an airport after a customs agent thought they might be harmful if imported, government and museum officials said Tuesday.
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PARIS, Feb. 19 -- Two masterworks that were stolen from a Zurich art museum last week were found in good condition Monday in an unlocked car parked outside a nearby psychiatric hospital, Swiss police said Tuesday. Two other paintings are still missing, they said.
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Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
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Thieves broke into a museum and stole around a dozen glass artworks made by a French master craftsman, worth &#36;3.3 million, police said Wednesday.
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A Greek prosecutor on Tuesday charged a former curator of the American J. Paul Getty Museum with knowingly buying an ancient artifact which had been illegally dug up and smuggled out of Greece 13 years ago.