“Steal This Art” Painting Stolen From Williamsburg Gallery
Artist Adam Simon hoped to elicit a big response from Williamsburg gallery-hoppers with a painting reading “Steal this art” — but he didn’t want his message to be taken quite so literally. The staff at Momenta Art is scrambling to find the crook who grabbed the five-by-seven-inch wood panel, valued at $300, which Simon donated...
John Cusack: Art Thief
Good to know that one of our generations great actors also has art crime on his mind. NY Magazine writer Jada Yuan visits the controversy riddled Getty Villa with John Cusack: Minutes after meeting me at the Getty Villa in Malibu, John Cusack has concocted a plot for us to commit grand larceny. The Greek...
Officials Are Set to Seize Antiquity
Federal agents in New York on Wednesday moved to seize a thousand-year-old Cambodian statue from Sotheby’s, alleging in a civil complaint that Sotheby’s had put the 10th-century figure of a mythological warrior up for auction despite knowing that it had been stolen from a temple. Investigators said the sandstone statue, whose return is being sought...
The Motherwell Is Real, But There’s A Hitch
When a German art conservator recently sought to authenticate an early painting by Robert Motherwell that she had inherited, the director of the artist’s New York foundation told her there was both good news and bad news. The work, “Figuration,” a charming 1947 oil on masonite, was real. But, the art conservator was told, the...