Egypt plans to set up a security control room to monitor all museums after the theft of a $55 million Vincent van Gogh painting in Cairo, Zahi Hawass, head of the country’s antiquities agency said today. Culture Minister Faruq Hosni also has formed a committee to review security measures after the theft at the Mohamed [...]
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Larry Salander, whose clients included John McEnroe and Robert De Niro Lawrence Salander, 61, was given the maximum sentence of six to 18 years and ordered to pay more than $114 million (£71 million) in restitution. In what prosecutors said was one of New York’s biggest ever art frauds, he admitted in March to an [...]
Picture provided by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation , BKA, in Berlin on Monday June 28, 2010 shows the painting ‘The Taking of Christ, or The Kiss of Judas’ by Italian painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) . Police say they have recovered the stolen Caravaggio painting and arrested four members of an international gang of [...]
A lone thief broke into a Paris museum last night and stole five paintings worth €500m (£430m) including masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, French police said today. A police spokesman said works by Picasso, Matisse, George Braque, Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger were reported missing early this morning from the Paris Museum of [...]
It was a big story in late 2007: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was suing celebrated architect Frank Gehry, alleging serious flaws in the design of his Stata Center, a science building of boldly angled walls and swooping curves on the Cambridge, Mass. campus. Among the alleged problems: leaks throughout the building, mold growing [...]
The 1930 painting ‘Portrait in the Garden’ by Paul Klee, is valued at $100,000. A painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee that was stolen from a New York gallery in 1989 been recovered after a Montreal gallery owner became suspicious and turned it over to U.S. authorities. Robert Landau turned the 1930 painting, “Portrait in [...]
Lawrence B. Salander left court after his plea Thursday. A once-prominent art dealer pleaded guilty on Thursday to a $120 million fraud scheme, admitting he sold paintings he did not own and at least once sold fractional shares of a painting that added up to more than 100 percent. “I am deeply ashamed and sorry [...]


