In the early morning of 18 March 1990, a security guard at the Gardner Museum buzzed in two men with fake moustaches dressed in Boston police uniforms. The “cops” claimed to be investigating a disturbance. They then tied up…
Disappeared in: 2000 Reward offered: Undisclosed As Oxford’s revellers were welcoming in the Millenium, a criminal used the opportunity to break into the city’s Ashmolean Museum and steal Cezanne’s painting, View of Auvers-sur-Oise. The painting is still unlocated, although no…
Knoedler & Company Knoedler & Company art gallery, which had been around for 165 years, closed after allegations of selling fraudulent paintings surfaced. Investigators discovered that paintings supposedly done by classical artists were actually made by one person in Queens,…
The strange story of Elmyr de Hory Good artists copy, great artists steal…..Picasso In 1955, Harvard University’s Fogg Museum bought a Matisse drawing, “A Lady with Flowers and Pomegranates,” from a Miami art dealer named E. Raynal. Raynal also agreed…
The painting pictured above, according to Wikipedia, is a self-portrait of and by a 19th century Spanish artist named Antonio María Esquivel. Per other accounts, though, Esquivel didn’t create the picture — it was one of the many works by…
A strange disc pouring smoke and hovering over buildings has been found in a monastery wall painting thought to date from the 16th century – and UFO researchers claim it is evidence of visitors from another world. The image is…
A Parisian apartment on the Right Bank, near the Opéra Garnier, left unoccupied since 1942 has been discovered. It was owned by Madame de Florian – a socialite and an actress – who fled to the South of France during…
On the night of St. Patrick’s Day, two police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They were responding to a call, they said, and so, the security guard let them in. Minutes later, both guards on duty that evening…
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