With sparse personnel and visitors, some criminals will try to see if the “closed” sign actually means “open”, say K2 Intelligence FIN's art crime experts

Detectives are intensifying their investigation into the latest crime, at Laren’s Singer museum, which was committed this week on the artist’s birthday

From a Van Gogh left in a public toilet to a Klimt found inside a gallery wall, just what is it that prompts criminals to return such valuable works?

The Singer Laren museum in the Netherlands is currently on lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic

London-based Old Masters dealer says that the works are “an unusual group to steal—neither priceless nor small fry”

Two are suspected of tampering with the alarm system; two more, on duty during the theft, are accused of an inadequate response

A woman connected to the museum where the painting was found is under investigation by the Italian police

The paintings, including works by Holbein and Hals, were smuggled across the Iron Curtain in the 1980s and recovered in a secret operation last year

Collapse of Bulmer theft case is just the latest in string of failed art-related convictions

As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember

Attempted robbery was thwarted by police

Theft of two paintings was thwarted thanks to gallery's security staff and systems

Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says

Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was forcibly removed from Blenheim Palace

The portrait was allegedly stolen from the home of a menswear magnate in 1984

The world’s greatest unsolved art theft continues to obsess—and stump—investigators

The former government residence turned museum will host its first art exhibition

The €25m work was stolen 20 years ago from a yacht on the French Riviera

University of Arizona Museum of Art will send its painting, damaged by the thief, to the Getty

Having served a six-year jail sentence, he came under suspicion again after offering a 19th-century paperweight on eBay

Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia

Noah Charney on the Carabinieri's efforts to track down the stolen painting

The work Trolley Hunters went missing during the set up for the ‘unauthorised’ exhibition

Mafia informant claims the painting, which is included in the FBI’s list of top ten art crimes, was sold to a Swiss dealer

Brooch and earrings removed during the day from a reinforced display case

Galerie Bartoux staff discovered €425,000 bronze missing at closing time

German investigators find 15 paintings and drawings in Leverkusen, north of Cologne