http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/20/world/europe/AP-EU-France-Museum-Theft.html PARIS (AP) — A lone thief stole five paintings worth up to half a billion euros ($613 million) total, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist Thursday from a Paris modern art museum, police … Continue reading →

Handsome painting: Whenever paintings like this are recovered it gives me hope that the missing Gardner masterpieces will be returned one of these days. A police raid in Glasgow has recovered a £30m Leonardo da Vinci painting stolen more than … Continue reading →

Nice is nice. Oh snap! I didn’t just make that joke, did I? Someone shoot me. I’m at my wit’s end over here. Five armed, masked thieves sprinted into an art museum on the French Riviera during opening hours Sunday … Continue reading →