Weeping Woman is one of the star works in the new exhibition Picasso Century at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria

The man destroyed three ancient Greek vessels, a Caddo sculpture and several other objects

Five objects worth more than €3m have been confiscated by authorities as part of a wide-ranging global investigation involving former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

Martinez has been indicted for “complicity of gang fraud and laundering“ of objects purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Louvre Abu Dhabi

Investigation focuses on purchases made by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi

The two manuscripts were returned in a pink gift bag with a message that read: "Happy Easter X"

The man suspected of stabbing two front desk workers at MoMA was apprehended in a bus station in Philadelphia after a days-long manhunt

A man identified as Gary Cabana stabbed two front desk employees at the Museum of Modern Art on 12 March and the following day threatened to trespass Mar-a-Lago

The Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia are among those finding ways to prevent re-sellers from inflating ticket prices

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

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

Consuelo Císcar, the former director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is said to have bought works attributed to Gerardo Rueda—but that were painted by his son

Fair organiser is working with police and Swiss cyber security authorities to identify perpetrators of malware attack on 20 October

Modi, who is currently held in Wandsworth Prison in London, is wanted for allegedly defrauding a state bank of £729m

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

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

Plus, vaccine passports in museums and Gossaert's Adoration

The copy of Leonardo's $450m painting was taken from the Museum of San Domenico Maggiore last year

Sales of paintings by Cézanne and Picasso worth a combined $139m are also under scrutiny by the US Virgin Island attorney general

More than 1,600 police officers take part in raids in Berlin to solve violent theft from Dresden’s Green Vault

Isaiah Ogundele, who demonstrated outside the Museum of London, Docklands for the objects' repatriation, failed to appear at his court hearing earlier this month

Repairing the piece—on long-term loan from a private collection—will take more than a year and cost up to £350,000

Plus, art under threat in Putin's Russia and George Shaw on Thomas Jones. Produced in association with Christie's

Jonty Bravery intended to kill, judge says

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

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”

Igor and Olga Toporovsky linked to controversial show of Russian avant-garde works in Ghent

Gardener discovered the painting behind a metal plate on an exterior wall at Italy's Ricci Oddi gallery

The former husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone owes £5m in debt including an unpaid sum of £3.9m to Christie's