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Looted art: the woman tackling Switzerland’s historical burden: As Switzerland steps up efforts to address looted art in public collections ...
swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/nikola-doll-shoulders-a-historical-burden-looted-art-in-swiss-collections/75309212
Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker : The heiress and IRA militant died on March 18th, aged 82
economist.com/obituary/2024/04/10/rose-dugdale-went-from-debutante-to-ira-bombmaker
Green Vault trial: jewelry thieves to testify: In the aiding and abetting trial surrounding the spectacular theft of art from the Green Vault in Dresden ...
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Jewel theft from the Green Vault: verdict against Remmo members is final: Almost four and a half years have passed since the spectacular theft of art from ...
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TV director Nicky Illis, who worked on BBC Antiques Roadshow, dies: Television producer and director Nicky Illis, who worked on BBC shows including Antiques ...
metro.co.uk/2024/04/08/tv-director-nicky-illis-worked-bbc-antiques-roadshow-dies-20606747/
Tree threatens the Weißes Häusle in Hechingen: The Hechingen Art Association is struggling with several problems - one is right outside the door.
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Will the Norton Simon, LACMA return Cambodia's looted art?: Thousands of precious antiquities disappeared from Cambodia during decades of war and strife ...
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West Cork cottage used in Rose Dugdale's 1974 art heist fetches almost €1m: It is the remote hideaway spot where a pregnant British heiress and IRA ...
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English heiress turned IRA member Rose Dugdale dies: Rose Dugdale, an English heiress who became a member of the Provisional IRA and who took part in the ...
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The casket is carried to the Crematorium Chapel in Glasnevin, Dublin. The English aristocrat who led a notorious IRA art heist, died at the age of 82.
Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist: After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history ...
nytimes.com/2024/03/18/arts/design/unsolved-gardner-museum-heist.html
California legislators seek stronger law on Nazi looted art: California lawmakers will introduce a bill to strengthen state law in favor of Holocaust survivors ...
latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-28/california-legislators-push-law-change-after-ruling-against-family-in-nazi-looted-art-case
After art theft in Innsbruck retirement home, the police take over the investigation Tyrolean daily newspaper online
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Obituary: Rose Dugdale, East Devon-born IRA activist: Rose Dugdale, who was born to a wealthy family in East Devon but became a leading IRA activist ...
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Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on his new IRA heist film: ‘If it was fictitious you’d say it was too much’
irishtimes.com/culture/film/2024/03/23/tom-vaughan-lawlor-on-his-new-ira-heist-film-if-it-was-fictitious-youd-say-it-was-too-much-but-its-just-an-astonishing-journey/
Rose Dugdale: The English heiress who gave away her money and joined the Provisional IRA
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John Maguire on Film: New biopic leaves moral questions around Rose Dugdale’s actions unanswered
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Ukraine in search of looted art following Russian invasion: Many Ukrainian museums have been looted since Russia's invasion in February 2022 ...
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Anatomy of a Fall’s Ending, Explained (Using The Sims 4): Did Sandra really kill her husband in ‘Anatomy of a Fall’? Using the state-of-the-art crime-solving ...
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Spectacular robbery on Lake Garda: police are puzzled: Jewel from the art theft on Lake Garda. The police are chasing the gang across the country.
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A Jewish family's quest for a Nazi-looted painting: A Jewish family's quest to reclaim a masterpiece painting stolen by the Nazis takes them across oceans and ...
latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-05/a-case-of-major-confiscation-a-jewish-familys-long-pursuit-of-a-nazi-looted-masterpiece
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Many countries lag in returning art looted by Nazis, report finds: Russia, Spain, Denmark, Turkey and other countries are falling short in efforts to return ...
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State Department announces 'Best Practices' to retrieve Nazi-looted art - UPI.com
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How German museums are reassessing their imperial Chinese treasures, worried about looted Boxer war artefacts
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Documentary on looted African art wins Golden Bear at Berlin festival ｜ DPA: The documentary "Dahomey" by French-born director Mati Diop about the return ...
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Gardner Museum heist: Guard who buzzed in thieves has died: Richard “Rick” Abath, 57, steadfastly maintained that he played no role in what remains the largest ...
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Six months after the theft, there is still no trace of “Imuna”.: Shock for artist Claudio Caprez last autumn: a work installed at the entrance to the luxury ...
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Hidden Belgium: The only Michaelangelo sculpture outside Italy: Hitler added it to his collection of looted art in 1944, but the sculpture was eventually ...
brusselstimes.com/hidden-belgium/926049/hidden-belgium-the-only-michaelangelo-sculpture-outside-italy-2
How two men stole Edvard Munch's The Scream in just 50 seconds — and how authorities managed to get the painting back
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Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years: It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The museum had financial ...
nytimes.com/2024/01/31/arts/design/rubin-museum-closing.html
Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 years: A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years ...
rnz.co.nz/news/world/507705/gustav-klimt-portrait-found-after-almost-100-years
Beyond ‘Poor Things,’ Willem Dafoe Has Another Great 2023 Performance: Willem Dafoe puts on a one-man show in Inside, a film that shouldn't have been ...
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Spanish museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US court rules: A US appeals court has ruled that a Madrid museum may keep a painting that the Nazis ...
cnn.com/2024/01/12/style/spain-museum-pissarro-painting-nazis/
Manufacturing giant develops revolutionary system to detect counterfeit art: Authentification technology created by German company Bosch could give paintings ...
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/27/manufacturing-giant-develops-revolutionary-system-to-detect-counterfeit-art
She told the police that she had left the suitcase containing the picture on the Reeperbahn to have a smoke. (www.nw.de/23765336 | NW+)
Stolen works by Picasso and Chagall discovered in Belgium Zofinger Tagblatt: Stolen works of art by Picasso and Chagall confiscated
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Tales from History: A Welcome Murderer: A story about the goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini
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Stolen Chagall and Picasso paintings found in Antwerp basement: The two paintings, together valued at approx. €826,000, were stolen from an art collector’s home ...
euronews.com/culture/2024/01/18/end-of-a-10-year-art-heist-stolen-chagall-and-picasso-paintings-found-in-antwerp-basement
Lift review: Netflix’s dismal Kevin Hart heist movie sinks like a stone: Kevin Hart, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jean Reno star in a dreadful blend of a Fast and ...
polygon.com/reviews/24034986/lift-review-netflix-kevin-hart-heist-movie
Gallery Hamburg: Charles Fazzino's Golden Apple stolen - Art thief wanted: The perpetrator apparently stole the valuable pop art sculpture by the well-known US ...
abendblatt.de/hamburg/hamburg-mitte/article241440480/Goldener-Apfel-gestohlen-Polizei-sucht-Kunstdiebin.html
Met museum is returning looted ancient art to Cambodia and Thailand: The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was ...
npr.org/2023/12/15/1219671492/met-museum-returns-looted-art-cambodia-thailand
Madrid museum can keep Nazi-looted art, US appeals court rules: US judges ruled that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum is the rightful owner of a priceless ...
euronews.com/culture/2024/01/15/us-appeals-court-says-madrid-museum-is-rightful-owner-of-nazi-looted-pissarro-painting
A Madrid museum will be able to keep a Pissarro painting that the Nazis looted, a US appeals court ruled in one of the oldest Nazi art theft cases ... Show more
Madrid museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US appeals court rules: A U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday that Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum ...
reuters.com/legal/madrid-museum-may-keep-pissarro-painting-looted-by-nazis-us-appeals-court-rules-2024-01-09/
Virginia museum to return 44 stolen or looted works to Egypt, Italy and Turkey: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts says it received ‘irrefutable evidence’ 44 ancient ...
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/virginia-museum-stolen-looted-art-return-egypt-italy-turkey
Banksy stop sign taken from London street soon after artwork appears: Police have arrested 2 suspects on suspicion of theft after the incident ...
axios.com/2023/12/25/banksy-art-theft-london
Quick Glance: Banksy: Investigation into Street Sign Removal in Peckham as Alleged Theft
- Media report: Two men were filmed removing the Banksy artwork in Peckham
- A red stop sign with three military drones was unveiled in Peckham on Friday.
- "This is not just a street sign, but a piece of art placed there for the community."
- A man described how he "watched in awe" as the sign was taken down at about 12:30 GMT on Friday.
That was in Cologne in 2023: Carnival anniversary, art theft and baby elephant: In the second part of our chronicle we look at the carnival and the big ...
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Kishwar Desai | Are Santa Claus' days numbered? Britain in midst of shoplifting fever
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The mystery of Ukraine’s Caravaggio: the second Taking of Christ?: A depiction of Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ, stolen from an Odesa museum in 2008 ...
irishtimes.com/culture/2023/12/24/the-mystery-of-ukraines-caravaggio-the-second-taking-of-christ/
"It is sad that a visit to many of the most famous museums in the world feels like a visit to the treasure trove of a global looter ... Show more www.dawn.com/news/1799343 #DawnToday #Opinion
It might be the greatest art heist in history – thousands of Cambodia’s cultural treasures, including sacred stone, bronze and gold artifacts ... Show more 60Minutes.com
How ’fruit of the poisonous tree’ doctrine applies to history and antiquities, too: Eric Foster
cleveland.com/opinion/2023/12/how-fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree-doctrine-applies-to-history-and-antiquities-too-eric-foster.html
Information requested:Art theft: Who can provide a hot lead on these three beauties?
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Virginia state art museum returns 44 pieces authorities determined were stolen or looted
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A Rubens painting keeps the courts busy: Who owns "Tarquinius and Lucretia"? Certainly not the Russian who acquired it in 1999, a court recently ruled ...
dw.com/en/a-rubens-painting-keeps-the-courts-busy/a-67644466
Virginia museum to return 44 stolen or looted works to Egypt, Italy and Turkey: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts says it received ‘irrefutable evidence’ 44 ancient ...
theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/virginia-museum-stolen-looted-art-return-egypt-italy-turkey
VMFA returns ancient art works deemed to stolen after investigation of global art theft
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Art robbery in Tirschenreuth: 600 euro reward offered for information leading to the capture of the perpetrator
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The Bernese art theft: «The example shows one thing: that art theft doesn't work»
derbund.ch/der-berner-kunstdiebstahl-das-beispiel-zeigt-eines-dass-kunstraub-nicht-funktioniert-549452301138
Content piracy: A fight for African culture and heritage: “...Content piracy is a form of digital theft, which misappropriates creative work without fair ...
monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/content-piracy-a-fight-for-african-culture-and-heritage-4446506
Painting stolen in New York art heist turns up in Lancs 60 years later: Flower Market Madeleine has been missing since it was taken from Arnot Gallery in New ...
lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/painting-stolen-new-york-art-28147752
Poo Done It? Four men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet : The four golden toilet-thieving suspects will appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on 28 ...
euronews.com/culture/2023/11/09/poo-done-it-four-men-charged-in-theft-of-satirical-golden-toilet-at-churchills-birthplace
Quick Glance: Charges Filed: £4.8M Gold Toilet Stolen
- Theft of a gold toilet valued at £4.8 million from Blenheim Palace in September 2019
- The toilet was on display for only two days and could be used with a three-minute time limit to avoid queues.
- Before installation, the duke’s half-brother mentioned the difficulty of stealing the toilet.
- The chief executive of Blenheim Palace hoped the pointless act of stealing would increase the value of the work.
GDR: “Art theft for socialism” - Is statute of limitations really the last word?: GDR: “Art theft for socialism” - Is statute of limitations really the last ...
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'The artwork is not guilty': Swiss museum unveils Nazi era collection : A prestigious Swiss institution is attempting to navigate the troubled waters ...
euronews.com/culture/2023/11/13/the-artwork-is-not-guilty-swiss-museum-unveils-controversial-nazi-era-collection
Ukraine has accused Russia of committing the biggest art theft since the Nazis in WWII. A network of cultural experts is collecting evidence they hope will ... Show more 60Minutes.com
Dresden: New trial about art theft in the Green Vault: Five men have already been convicted in connection with the jewelry robbery from the Dresden Treasury ...
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Art theft worth millions in Ukraine: Madrid police catch thief priest and his gang
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Painting stolen in art heist more than 30 years ago returned to Glasgow museum: The piece has returned to Glasgow Museums, after being put up for auction by an ...
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Painting stolen by U.S. soldier during Second World War returned to museum: A baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to ...
torontosun.com/news/world/painting-stolen-by-u-s-soldier-during-second-world-war-returned-to-museum
Ohio college’s museum returns Nazi-looted drawing by Egon Schiele: Heirs of Austrian-Jewish collector Fritz Grunbaum will receive an Egon Schiele drawing looted ...
pennlive.com/news/2023/10/ohio-colleges-museum-returns-nazi-looted-drawing-by-egon-schiele.html
East Asian Museum: Burglary as a “wake-up call” for the Cologne art world: The director of the Museum of East Asian Art sees the Cologne act in an international ...
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'Marcus Aurelius' statue seized from Cleveland museum in looting probe: The bronze, believed to depict Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was being kept in a ...
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Quick Glance: Marcus Aurelius Statue Seized from Cleveland Museum
- Bronze headless statue believed to be of Marcus Aurelius
- Statesman and philosopher depicted wearing a flowing robe
- Long-standing exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Turkey first claimed the Marcus Aurelius statue in 2012 and released a list of stolen items
Ludwig II: Bavaria's 'fairytale king' and his dream castle: August 25 marks the 178th birthday of the Bavarian king, known for his Neuschwanstein Castle ...
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A reckoning over looted art: The latest The Explainer,/the-explainers,,the-explainers, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week
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Interview on the Cologne art theft: “I see gross negligence”: Who could be behind the robbery at the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne? An interview with the ...
rundschau-online.de/koeln/koelner-kunstraub-so-urteilt-der-sachverstaendige-christoph-bouillon-651839
'Laughs in Spanish' is a zippy comedy about art, theft, love and mothers: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's "Laughs in Spanish" is a zippy, zingy comedy about art ...
jsonline.com/story/entertainment/arts/2023/09/26/mother-daughter-throwdown-leads-to-laughs-in-spanish/70957220007/
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In apparent first, Croatia restores looted art to grandson of Holocaust victim: Three museums return pieces to Andy Reichsman, who continued decades-long ...
timesofisrael.com/in-apparent-first-croatia-restores-looted-art-to-grandson-of-holocaust-victim/
Jewish actor’s looted art collection returned to his family: The Viennese cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum was a prolific performer and poet whose life ended in the ...
thetimes.co.uk/article/jewish-actor-s-looted-art-collection-returned-to-descendants-56gvf7klj
Paid articlePaid Nazi looted art goes from museums to heirs of Jewish art collector Fritz Grünbaum
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