Sentences with phrase «stolen art»

Artists, like authors, have to eat and pay bills, and they can't do that with stolen art.

Second, the stories surrounding stolen art are often bizarre.

What does Tom McShane, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who says he recovered millions of dollars worth of stolen art in odd places — a van Gogh in a gas station, a Rembrandt in the bathroom of a tiny antiques shop, and a Rubens in the backseat of an old van — think of the theft?

It follows the story of Rafael, a notorious Parisian art thief who is most famous for stealing art only to return it days later.

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.

A baby boy tips the balance.When two gangs go head to head in the battle for priceless stolen art, east London's most feared hitman is awoken.

Once inside, the men bound and gagged the watchman and a fellow security guard and made off with $ 500 million in stolen art.

A Brand new Thriller of The Week: Alex Northrop's ex used stolen art to fund his criminal activities.

She also called for people who had bought stolen art work to return it so it can be taken back to the Middle East when the fighting is over.

At one point, Meat Loaf believes the «Lethal Weapon» actor stole his art supplies.

Irving operates a string of dry - cleaning stores that seem to do more figurative than literal laundering; he also fences stolen art for the black market and makes a killing guaranteeing bogus loans to anyone desperate enough to front him $ 5,000 (a scam that, when we see it in action, can't help but evoke the financial chicanery that led to the crash of 2008).

While his parents are preoccupied with a new baby, Henry travels to Paris with Aunt Lucinda on a mission for the Silver Jaguar Society, a group dedicated to rescuing stolen art, in this third series installment.

When Bartron's criminal past - as a cat burglar stealing art and jewelry in Louisiana and a bank robber in Florida - came to light, he agreed to step down as president of the Priscilla Project.

This time our four protagonists are members of an elite team that's been assembled to retrieve stolen art from the Axis powers.

Steal art back from an egocentric villain's private museum without getting caught!

There have been many pretenders to the throne on the App Store, and even a few games bold enough to completely steal art assets, but the real - deal has finally arrived with METAL SLUG 3 thanks to DotEmu and SNK PLAYMORE.

Here's why stolen art — such as that looted from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — is so hard to find.

Several databases exist worldwide to document stolen art and thwart illegal sales.

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

A very meaty conversation about where Gwenn stands on copyright, the common fear that artists have that people will steal their art if they share it online, and art as connection vs. art as property.

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.

The Law and Its Ideas: Daniel McClean discusses recovering Nazi stolen art and the Gurlitt hoard.

«Sometimes stolen art is used to launder drug debts.

Made directly on the wall at another gallery, the work has been cut out from the sheetrock, like smash - and - grab stolen art, and fastened to the wall of Marlborough Chelsea, forcefully appropriated and recontextualized for this show.

MANHATTAN (CN)-- More than a decade after the man who stole the art went to jail, Italian art crime investigators recovered five emblematic works by German - born American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann.

Treaties, information about stolen art, and other legal information, no date.

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

Most of the time, thieves steal art for ransom or resale, which can be a very profitable enterprise.

Here's the set - up: She's on the run... Brilliant art appraiser Alex Northrop's ex used stolen art to fund his nefarious activities.

They make like thieving soldiers to steal art from the Nazis before its destroyed.

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

This has resulted in Blizzard suing the original game makers for stealing their art.

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.

«The big break in the case came Wednesday when Pasadena police officers received a tip that the stolen art was held at an automobile stereo shop, Santa Monica police said in a news release.

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.

As we previously reported, the story centers on a group of art experts selected by the U.S. Government to chase down the stolen art of Europe...

The period drama centers on a group of art experts selected by the U.S. Government to chase down the stolen art of Europe during World War II, and Clooney is already set to star alongside Daniel Craig, Jean Dujardin, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville, and Bob Balaban.

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.

Part of the movie is deeply fascinating, such as the concept of stolen art and the fact that many stunning pieces have been taken and aregone forever.

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Thirteen - year - old Moxie is stalked by a mysterious woman who threatens to reveal Moxie's grandfather's participation in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, unless Moxie can get Grumps (who now suffers from Alzheimer's) to reveal the stolen art's whereabouts.

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A couple of weeks later, American soldiers stumbled across the train and discovered the stolen art, jewels, gold (boxes of wedding rings and even gold teeth), furs, silverware and other personal possessions including silk underwear.

- Glenn Kurtz, Author of Three Minutes in Poland «In recent years, there has been an increase in the awareness of the problem of looted and stolen art, and Chasing Portraits makes an important contribution to the field.

Among the organizations focused on the search and recovery of stolen art is the Art Theft Detail of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The organization's Stolen Art Alert became the Art Loss Register (ALR), a private database of lost and stolen art.

«We get tips from the public, and I would like to encourage the public, if they have any knowledge of stolen art, looted art, or art fraud that meets the criteria for our investigation, to submit a tip via the tip line or call their local FBI office,» she says.