Nearly 250 works of art -- including pieces by Chagall, Matisse, Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec -- are being sold online through a national auction ending Monday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Law enforcement agents began searching the Connecticut home of an alleged mobster on Thursday. But the suspect's attorney says authorities are actually hunting for hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen art that went missing from a Boston museum more than 20 years ago.
Police have recovered 'The Judgment' etching, valued at more than $250,000, but have yet to nab a suspect.
Whoever stole a sketch by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn from a hotel apparently dumped the piece in a church building, perhaps daunted by the prospect of trying to unload it amid widespread media coverage, a Los Angeles County sheriff's detective said Tuesday.
Detectives in southern California searched Sunday for clues to crack the case of a stolen piece of artwork by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, thought to be worth some $250,000.
Since it was discovered hanging on the walls of a Rotterdam museum, a painting thought to be by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn has jumped in value by $7 million.
For more than 20 years, the bulletproof museum case housed a small piece of yesteryear: a gold bar recovered from a sunken Spanish galleon. Today, its case is broken, littered with black fingerprint dust. The treasure is gone. Stolen. Two thieves were caught in the act by the museum's security cameras.
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Experts have confirmed "Rembrandt Laughing," bought for a bargain price of $4.5 million, is a self-portrait by the Dutch master himself
In Holland, the family of Nathan Katz believes that 225 paintings should be returned to them
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As we look back on 2006, one question: Where did all the good teams go? What an ordinary bunch of pseudo-winners. Never mind even a wannabe dynasty. Oh, what I would give for another bully of a team, a juggernaut, a steamroller. Where are the monsters of yesteryear?
Amsterdam is blessed and cursed by its reputation as the world's most liberal city. So many backpackers, stag nighters and lost weekenders flood into the city each day in search of a pot-smoking party town that their expectations have become self-fulfilling.
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Kenneth Langone, a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, is attempting to mount a counter bid to buy the exchange, a source close to the matter said Monday.
Cold caseupdated: Fri Mar 18 2005 17:22:00
Masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists, including Rembrandt, Manet and Degas, were among more than a dozen art objects stolen 15 years ago in a cunning -- and so far perfect -- crime.
Kicking King landed a famous victory for Ireland in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, jump racing's highest quality event.
Best Mate emulated Arkle and joined horse racing's greats on Thursday by winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the third year in succession.
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