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Gael García Bernal’s new film Museo turns Mexico’s biggest art heist into a madcap caper
The Spanish-launguage movie follows two middle-class flunkies who somehow pulled off one the largest antiquities thefts in modern-day history
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Chinese antiquities stolen in raid on Bath museum
Haul includes precious gold and jade artefacts, which police say may have been stolen to order
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FBI recovers Chagall work stolen nearly 30 years ago
The painting, taken from the Manhattan home of an elderly couple, had been stashed in a Maryland attic
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Light-fingered man steals thumb of ancient terracotta warrior during museum party
China's Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Centre says it will reconsider its loan policy after the "noxious incident"
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John Lennon’s stolen diaries found by Berlin police
Journals and other personal effects were discovered at auction house, reports say
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Thief walks out of Paris gallery with Botero’s Maternity statue
Galerie Bartoux staff discovered €425,000 bronze missing at closing time
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One man’s epic quest to recover a stolen painting by ‘Iraq’s Picasso’
The 1968 battle scene was withdrawn last month from Christie’s Dubai sale, but its fate remains in question
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‘Spider-man’ and accomplices sentenced in Paris museum theft
Three defendants given six- to eight-year prison sentences, hefty fines and ordered to pay the city €104m
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Stolen Guercino painting found in Casablanca
Altarpiece was taken from church in Modena, Italy, in 2014
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Prosecution seeks jail time and heavy fines for Paris museum thieves
The three men involved in the heist face seven to ten years for the disappearance of five masterpieces
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Trial testimony reveals how one man walked off with five masterpieces worth €108m from a Paris museum
But professional burglar advises making sure you “have the resources” to pull off a similar heist “or drop the idea because it’s just too much of a headache”