Gundlach art theft: Six people charged with first-degree residential burglary, conspiracy and receiving stolen property three months after artworks recovered

One man has been accused of breaking into the private residence of financier Jeffrey Gundlach in Santa Monica, California, last September to...

ARCA Founder Noah Charney at TEDxCelje Speaks on Art Theft at the Louvre

Writer and art historian Noah Charney's TED talk given at a TEDx event in November is now online.  The talk is about art theft and the M...

Pretoria Art Museum Theft Update: South African television stations post videos on YouTube

Here are two videos posted on YouTube of local and national television coverage of the Pretoria Art Museum heist on Sunday, November 11.

Kunsthal Rotterdam Theft: Messenger bags may have allowed thieves to flee on foot or by bike

Painting by Gauguin stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Here’s a link to an article by Robbert ...

Pretoria Art Museum in South Africa robbed

"Street Scene" by Gerard Sekoto was one of the paintings stolen  from the Pretoria Art Museum  (City of  Tishwane, Courtesy of The...

Palais Fesch Art Theft Update: Security guard and bartender sentenced to four and two years, respectively

Palais Fesch in Adjaccio, Corsica On October 26, 2012, two men received prison sentences of two and for years for stealing four paintings fr...

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Theft: Journalist Colin Gleadell on "overvaluation" of the seven stolen paintings

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog So much has been written about the October 16 theft of seven paintings from the Triton Foundation on display ...

Bill Reid Theft 2008: Postmedia News obtains RCMP and university campus security records to answer outstanding questions about the heist of UBC's Museum of Anthropology and the investigation that followed

Haida artist Bill Reid's art safely back on display  at UBC's Museum of Anthropology (Photo Sezgin) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog E...

The Art Theft of Cellini's Saliera: Security Scrutiny in a high profile theft

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor The Kunstahl Rotterdam is not alone.  Almost a decade ago, another famous art heist in Europe captured...

Police Release Surveillance Video for Kunsthal Art Theft

The Rotterdam-Rijnmond police in The Netherlands posted this surveillance feed of the break in at the Kunsthal on October 16 at around 3:15 ...

Associated Press video shows excerpt from Kunsthal Rotterdam press conference after theft of seven paintings

This video posted on YouTube, mostly in Dutch with the exception of security consultant Ton Cremers speaking in English, shows the Kunsthal ...

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: "Progress in Kunsthal art theft investigation" announced by Rotterdam-Rijnmond Police

Rotterdam-Rijnmond Police in The Netherlands released a press release on their website regarding progress in the investigation of the Octobe...

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: Conferring with Ton Cremers, Dutch security consultant

Ton Cremers by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief When Tuesday's news broke about the theft of seven paintings from the Triton ...

Rotterdam Art Heist: ARCA in the Media

Here's a few links to ARCA associates recently published in the media: In Noah Charney's "Secret History of Art" column fo...

Kunsthal Rotterdam Art Heist: Conferring with Charley Hill, former Scotland Yard art detective and undercover agent

By Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Charley Hill, former Scotland Yard art detective (who helped to recover "The Scream...

Rotterdam Art Heist: The Day After

by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Questions remain the day after seven stolen paintings estimated to be worth "tens of mil...

Experts opine professional thieves may have stolen seven paintings from Rottendam gallery for ransom or to be sold later on the black market for a fraction of their worth

Monet's "Charing Cross Bridge, London" 1901/AP On October 7, Kunsthal Rotterdam, a showcase of temporary exhibitions, opened ...

Early morning art theft at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam

CNN: "An investigator searches the Rotterdam Kunsthal  museum after a pre-dawn break-in on October 16, 2012.   Photo by AFP/Getting Ima...

The Journal of Art Crime, Fall 2012: "The Role of the Police in the Co-Production of Art Security in London" by John Kerr

In the Fall 2012 electronic edition of The Journal of Art Crime , criminologist John Kerr examines the role of the police in the co-producti...

Santa Monica Art Collector offers Million Dollar Reward for Stolen Mondrian plus $500,000 for other paintings

Composition (A) En Rouge Et Blanc by Piet Mondrian by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Santa Monica is a liberal seaside town -- ...