By: Anthony McCartney, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A valuable comic featuring the debut of Superman has re-surfaced in a storage locker, and police said Monday that it appears to be the same one stolen from Nicolas Cage more than a decad…
A Swedish Court Convicts 3 Men of Unnoticed Art Theft
STOCKHOLM (AP).- A Swedish court has convicted three men of stealing a valuable painting by Edvard Munch from a museum that didn’t realize it was missing. The Malmo District Court says the men, who were not identified, were guilty of stealing the Norwe…
Egypt Bars Officials from Travel Over Art Theft: Report
CAIRO (REUTERS).- Egypt’s general prosecutor has blocked nine Culture Ministry officials from travel as part of an inquiry into the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, a state-owned newspaper said on Monday. The painting, known…
Michener Art Museum Presents Tales from the FBI’s Real Indiana Jones
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- One night in May, five paintings were stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris . What were the thief, or thieves, thinking when they walked off with a Picasso, a Matisse, a Braque, a Modigliani and a Leger? Did they pl…
Stolen $100 Million Dollar Caravaggio Recovered in Berlin
BERLIN
— A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Odessa in the Ukraine
two years
ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin,
official
said Monday. Police confiscated the 17th-century painting — known as …