Tag: Art Theft

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...