Sentences with phrase «of stolen art»

The Guardian carried a story this weekend on Interpol's online database of stolen art objects.

Databases of stolen art are maintained by the FBI, the LAPD and at the Art Loss Register.

From his collaborations with Marina Abramovic on video games that echo the performance artist's vaunted method to the empty museum of stolen art, we gathered Barr's full playable art - world oeuvre in the context of other indie art - focused games.

The fourth sleuth I called was Robert Wittman, senior investigator of the FBI's Art Crime Team, who has been involved in the recovery of more than $ 150 million worth of stolen art and artifacts.

According to ArtNet News, the stolen works have not been specified — but a Carabinieri database of stolen art suggests that they may have been paintings by Renoir and Rembrandt.

Since 1993, LAPD's Art Theft Detail has recovered more than $ 121 million worth of stolen art.

Most people involved in the recovery of stolen art emphasize the important of provenance.

McAvoy plays a crooked art auctioneer, Cassel plays the thug he falls in cahoots with, and Rosario Dawson's character is introduced later, a hypnotherapist who has to pull the whereabouts of the stolen art from McAvoy's memory.

In September, Gundlach held a press conference to announce his offer of a $ 1.7 million reward for the return of stolen art on his property.

Not exact matches

Investors, museums and private art companies hire him to confirm both the authenticity of art and antiques they are considering buying, and to purchase key pieces for their collection, or investigate lost or stolen art and antiques.

For example, DoubleLine CIO Jeff Gundlach invests in fine art (some of which were briefly stolen from his home by professional thieves).

Despite the increasing fear Americans have of personal and financial information being stolen, most financial - services firms have been complacent on updating or implementing state of the art — or even basic — cybersecurity technology, according to a recent study by Dalbar / ThinkAdvisor entitled «The State of Authentication in Financial Services.»

Before I joined TLS, I could see my thoughts and some of my experiences in his art, so he must have been telepathically stealing my personal stories.

Sales of stolen pieces of art work from churches in Iraq and Syria is the fourth largest source of income for Islamic State.

Sales of stolen pieces of art work from churches in Iraq and Syria is the fourth largest source of income... More

Stealing AND lying, they have mastered along with the art of being impressed with themselves.

Warhol is an old hand as far as food - art hybrids are concerned, what with his infamous soup cans (seven of which were recently stolen).

We'd given the best years of our lives to Art Modell, and he stole our team.

In 2004, the Christ child was stolen again, this time by a 19 - year - old student at the Art Institute of Chicago who was caught a few blocks from the plaza and charged with misdemeanor theft.

Mr. Lally's past practice has included successfully representing President George W. Bush before the Miami - Dade and Orange County Boards of Election at the 2000 Florida Recounts; handling numerous complex corporate reorganizations involving multi-jurisdictional assets; recovering priceless stolen art from an international auction house; restructuring of clients» business affairs to reduce their tax and liability exposure; successfully litigating major elections cases and appeals; representing media groups in domestic and international litigation; handling complex domestic relations, divorce, and custody matters; serving as general counsel to numerous corporations in the health care, media, manufacturing, and hospitality industries; and representing parties in multi-national litigation.

«Yesterday we saw Washington's swamp continue to rise: Chuck Schumer wrote the art of the steal by taking hurricane relief hostage to guarantee a December showdown that favors Democratic spending priorities,» said Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska.

Nothing less from the author of the «Art of the Steal.»

We give you the tools to make sure you can block and report any other members who are acting suspiciously, and we use state - of - the - art encryption to ensure your personal data will not be stolen.

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After having his girlfriend stolen by a handsome (at least momentarily) Eduardo Noriega in director Amenábar's art - house hit Open Your Eyes (later remade in the U.S. as Vanilla Sky), Martínez spent the next few years carving a comfortable niche for himself in the realm of Spanish cinema.

Earlier this year, it was reported that Clooney was going to produce, write, direct and star in The Monuments Men, the story of a group of art experts selected to find artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Synopsis: Simon (James McAvoy), a fine - art auctioneer, joins a gang of thieves led by Franck (Vincent Cassel) to steal a priceless Goya painting.

If you're worried that the re-teaming of Clooney and Cate Blanchett in a World War II movie signals something like «The Good German,» fear not: She's better here, playing a French art historian who worries the Americans will «rescue» the art in order to steal it for their own country.

Michael B. Jordan, who broke out in Coogler's debut film, «Fruitvale Station,» brings scrappy, street - smart volatility to his performance as a character with whom T'Challa has a karmic connection, and Gurira steals every scene she's in as an indomitable warrior trained in the art of spearcraft.

Clooney will direct and star in this adaptation of Robert M. Edsel's book about a disparate group of art experts brought together to recover valuable artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

Desperate to find him so they can get him back to L.A. in time for the wedding, they begin a journey that leads them to confront a singing Mike Tyson, find a pissed off Asian man trained in martial arts (Ken Jeong) in the trunk of the police car they stole, and meet a ditzy stripper (Heather Graham) who might have married one of them.

The true - life story of reclaiming art stolen by the Nazis stars Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Charles Dance

A fascinating true - life story of reclaiming art stolen by the Nazis gets flattened into familiar, feel - good tropes

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The plot revolves around renowned art - dealer Charlie Mortdecai, who gets caught up in a race to find a stolen painting that contains the code to a lost bank account full of Nazi gold.

His past career as a black ops commando keeps bubbling to the surface, however, and the second trailer for The Equalizer shows him dipping back into the art of justice by retrieving a stolen ring belonging to one of his co-workers.

For Ian, who pulls her aside periodically to sit for his preliminary sketches, Lucy is his muse, but also grist for the mill of his art — raw material to be used, stolen from and discarded.

Art house riches abounded; films such as «The Artist and the Model,» «Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me,» and «Frances Ha» stole the hearts of audiences willing to look beyond the multiplex.

At its most basic level, «Stealing Beauty» is an artist's meditation on the inspirations of his art.

Starring an excellent cast (George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett), the film focuses on a group of men from the United States, Great Britain and France, who are moved by their love of art to recover the masterpieces that were on the verge of being destroyed by the war, or stolen by the Nazis (and the Soviets), in the waning years of World War II.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

The film's whiz - bang opening sets the stage when art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) teams up with a group of criminals to steal Francisco Goya's 1798 masterpiece «Witches in the Air» during an auction in progress.

Not the alien - fighting kind, Highsmith's Ripley is a con - artist and serial killer, living the high life courtesy of a stolen inheritance, a wealthy father - in - law and a lucrative sideline in art forgery.

WHAT: With his gambling debt piling up, art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy) teams up with a group of thieves to steal a Francisco Goya masterpiece.

Also new this week: Marco Bellocchio's Vincere (IFC), the documentary The Art of the Steal (IFC), Rain (Image), Artois the Goat (IndiePix), Accidents Happen (Image) and G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero — The Movie: Special Collectors Edition (Shout!

Sculpted by Trick or Treat Studios Art Director Justin Mabry, the «Elrod Mask» (pictured above) is based on the early scene of Halloween II when The Shape steals Miss Elrod's sandwich knife.

He places the audience, for the most part, in the thick of it with Gustave and Zero as they try not only to solve the murder of Madame D. (one of Gustave's elderly blonde lovers - played by Tilda Swinton in glorious prosthetics, as pictured above right), but as they break out of prison, steal some art and as they go on a perilous adventure.

Scene - Stealers and Lost in Reviews have joined forces for a one - night - only special event of art, rock, and videogames at Screenland Crossroads 4/20/2012.

The two - hour - and -20-minute film turned out to be a shaggy satirical comedy about Christian (Claes Bang), the chic curator of an art museum, toggling among mortifying story lines: a one - night stand with lingering consequences, a nastily conceived ad campaign for a hot new exhibit (the titular «square,» an artwork creating a kind of ethical safe space), and a positively unbelievable outreach effort to retrieve a stolen wallet and other items.

Nor of the derivate visuals (flying martial - arts fighters), stolen directly from more original movies like the Kung Fu Panda series.