Article: A smart art heist? Only in movies Booty can seldom be resold, and thieves are usually caught

Article: Is art theft glamorous? Only in the movies The smart thieves steal other things
International Herald Tribune;  February 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Randy Kennedy The New York Times Media Group...Tribune 02-18-2008 Is art theft glamorous? Only in...Randy Kennedy The New York Times Media Group...Affair." But one thing art theft movies tend to have...fit all examples of art theft, but I think it's...firm ...

Article: Heisting buyers on their own petards. (art theft increase)
U.S. News & World Report;  May 15, 1989 ;     274 words ...Collectors of contemporary art were understandably delighted...Bacon, Picasso and Gauguin. Art theft is now second only to drug...among international crimes. The new breed of thief is nothing like...typified by the Baron, arrested in New York last week. When the Belgian...thug, the ...

Article: `Genteel' larceny - art theft - on rise
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 6, 1988 ;     351 words ...NEW YORK In the 1964 film "Topkapi," Peter Ustinov and Melina Mercouri...last month when burglars broke into Manhattan's Colnaghi Art Gallery through a skylight, shinnied down a rope and took...artwork was valued at $6 million, making it the biggest art theft in New York history. ...

Article: FBI ENTERS ALBANY ART THEFT CASE.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 14, 1989 ;     687 words ......theft of three precious art objects from the Albany...institution victimized by an art theft would be wise to generate...for Art Research, a New York City organization that...and car theft - that art theft doesn't get much attention...surface eventually in New ...

Article: POSSIBLE CLUE IN $500 MILLION ART THEFT
United Press International;  March 12, 2004 ;     167 words ...United Press International 03-12-2004 Possible clue in $500 million art theft NEW YORK, Mar 12, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Authorities are checking the authenticity of two photos of what could be a Rembrandt masterpiece missing for 14 years. It was part of what the FBI called the ...

Article: UCLA ART THEFT CHARGES FILED; EX-UCLA OFFICIAL NAMED IN ART THEFT.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  May 27, 1999 ;     611 words ......000 through a middleman to a New York art gallery, federal prosecutors...said he is unaware of another art theft of this magnitude at the university...Ira Spanierman Gallery in New York for $200,000. The painting...through the middleman to the New York gallery, ...

Article: ART THEFT TOPIC FOR STATEWIDE GALLERY GROUP.(Show)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 21, 1986 ;     120 words ...William A. Smith, an authority on art theft, will deliver the keynote address when the Gallery Association of New York State opens its annual meeting Friday at the...information, contact the Gallery Association of New York State at 315-824-2510.

Article: Gardner art theft suspect is study in intrigue
The Boston Globe;  June 3, 1992 ;     700+ words ......writing a screenplay about a brazen art theft during which the thieves hid the stolen...of an investigation into the largest art theft in history, when the FBI summoned him...but bungled art robbery in upstate New York in 1980, knows nothing of the 12 missing...yesterday, McDevitt, ...

Article: New FBI Task Force to Focus on Art Theft
AP Online;  January 15, 2005 ;     637 words ......Online 01-15-2005 Dateline: PHILADELPHIA Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie...said Lynne Richardson, who manages the art theft program at FBI headquarters in Washington...such as Frederick Schultz, a prominent New York art dealer now serving a 33-month ...

Article: $6 million art theft called amateur job
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 11, 1988 ;     111 words ...NEW YORK (UPI) A pair of agile amateurs probably were responsible for a $6 million art theft that stripped a prestigious Manhattan gallery of 27 works by old masters in the nation's biggest art robbery, police said Wednesday...

Article: Foundation in Zurich robbed of 4 paintings Art theft may be largest ever in Europe
International Herald Tribune;  February 12, 2008 ;     535 words ...Uta Harnischfeger The New York Times Media Group International Herald Tribune 02-12-2008 Foundation in Zurich robbed of 4 paintings Art theft may be largest ever in Europe Byline: Uta Harnischfeger The New York Times Media Group Edition: 3 Section: NEWS ZURICH -- Armed...announced ...

Article: New FBI task force on art theft hopes to learn about global trade from professionals in art, museum worlds
AP Worldstream;  January 15, 2005 ;     648 words ......Dateline: PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania Art theft may conjure up images of a suave movie...said Lynne Richardson, who manages the art theft program at FBI headquarters in Washington...such as Frederick Schultz, a prominent New York art dealer now serving a 33-month sentence...allegedly ...

Article: WANTED CONRAD GALLAGHER: For failing to turn up in court to face charges of art theft.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  October 16, 2002 ;     364 words ......failed to turn up at his trial for alleged art theft. Detective Garda Angela Twyford told Judge...adjourned because he had married a US woman in New York last month and was applying for citizenship...celebrity chef said the accused was in New York and unfit to travel. Then Judge ...

Article: $6 million N.Y. art theft
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 10, 1988 ;     44 words ...NEW YORK (UPI) Burglars smashed through the skylight of the prestigious Colnaghi Art Gallery and stole at least a dozen old master paintings worth an estimated $6 million, police said Tuesday. The theft was one of the biggest art thefts in New York history, said police Lt. John Kelly.