Following a 16-year-long case, involving stolen national treasures offered at auction in 2020, experts say more resources are needed to help people avoid unwittingly selling looted items

NFTs are a major new economy and with every major new economy, there is a big new scam

Decision follows years of uncertainty around dwindling enforcement funding

Steve Kough also stole three paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1982—while on trial for conspiracy to distribute marijuana

Figures indicate fewer museum thefts, more illegal excavations

Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings

Memorial sculpture, valued at $80,000, may have been stolen so the metal could be sold to a scrapyard

The charges against her stemmed from the fraudulent sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture to a Hong Kong collector, while a similar claim against her over a Warhol portrait remains in German court

During an interrogation with Greek police, a construction worker explains what drove him to commit a brazen heist in 2012

Authorities have reportedly arrested a man after the paintings were found in a gorge

A slashed Velázquez and a burnt Banksy achieved notoriety, but vandalism in the name of the NFT faces ethical hurdles

New report by special police force finds increase in security and surveillance technology has dissuaded dealers in stolen art

Around £1m worth of artefacts were taken from Arundel Castle in West Sussex on Friday

The Khalil Museum, with its fabled Impressionists in a mansion by the Nile, has reopened after an 11-year renovation—without Vincent’s flower still-life

Carabinieri's recovery of the San Galgano collection of “unprecedented importance”

The suspect is linked to a Frans Hals theft, which should help track down paintings from two museums

Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration

George Haag, who has pleaded not guilty, says he thought the portrait of Andy Warhol “would look better somewhere else” and “just wanted to make people laugh”

We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them

Mwazulu Diyabanza says that “museums do not deserve respect” as restitution debate intensifies

Paintings by Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne, which were stolen in dramatic art heists, are available to view online

Discovered by the gardener at the Ricci Oddi gallery last year, Portrait of a Lady will be the star of a series of exhibitions on the much-loved artist

BBC4 documentary—released today—unpicks theory that the stolen art was shipped to Ireland

When works of art are taken multiple times, it is often more about criminal prestige or bargaining chips for reducing prison sentences

Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer was taken in previous heists with a work by Jacob van Ruisdael

14th-century Buddha and Tang Dynasty sculpture among 27 works stolen by masked burglars from Wilfrid Israel Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday night

Will Arthur Brand’s images of the stolen painting lead to a recovery?

A handyman allegedly stole works on paper from the artist’s stepdaughter over three years, before they were discovered in the possession of the owner of Belle et Belle gallery

Plus, Laura Cumming on Breugel. Produced in association with Christie's