It’s a crime caper entirely befitting the master of surrealism. According to New York prosecutors, last summer Phivos Istavrioglou strolled into ...
Two inept thieves who stole Chinese artefacts worth £2 million from a museum but then could not find where they had stashed them were handed lengthy ...
In 1987, when a burglar armed with a sledgehammer smashed his way into the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and made a daring getaway with a $1m (£6...
A man has been jailed after a bid to steal a rhino head worth up to £500,000 was foiled by museum staff and visitors. Patrick Kiely, 29, of Eleano...
Two men have been charged over the theft of a hoard of Chinese art from a Cambridge museum. The 18 jade items from the Ming and Qing dynasties were...
A 35-year-old man has been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary by police investigating the theft of Chinese artefacts worth more than £2 milli...
A hoard of rare Chinese artefacts has been stolen from Cambridge University, police have confirmed. Eighteen items including a 14th century Ming ja...
It’s been one of the biggest art shows in living memory, but this week people will be walking out of Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Mila...
Thanks to the power of the image of Mona Lisa and the imagination of Dan Brown, the da Vinci brand will never lack box office appeal. But, just in case, curators for this new exhibition have used another of the artist's most recognisable works to help drive publicity.
