Art theft
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Rolling Stones, stolen Munch and the €1bn flop of Les Halles – the week in artArt is not immune from the biggest document leak in history and Glasgow International kicks off for another year – all in your weekly art dispatch -
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Why a Swiss gallery should return its looted Nazi art out of simple decencyNazi art loot carries a legacy of hate. The latest ownership dispute – over a Constable painting, claimed by the heirs of British Jews – reminds us that respect is at the heart of the restitution debate
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German taskforce finds only five of 1,500 artworks were looted by NazisJewish groups criticise official report on collection of art dealer Cornelius Gurlitt, discovered in Munich in 2012
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Public artworks disappearing before our eyes, says heritage bodyHistoric England issues ‘call to arms’ over loss or theft of sculptures and other art, asking public to help track down lost pieces
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Remaining two NC Wyeth paintings stolen in 2013 return to MaineThe paintings, worth up to $500,000 each, will be displayed with four other works that were found earlier after being stolen from businessman’s home
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Ohio museum to send four artworks believed to be stolen back to IndiaMuseum will send back rare objects including an 11th-century sculpture, donated by a former New York City gallery owner arrested for selling looted artifacts
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Theft of nine Warhol prints in Los Angeles went undetected for yearsAn estimated $350,000 worth of silk screen prints hanging in movie business were discovered to be replaced with fakes after one was taken to be reframed
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Danish museum releases CCTV photos of suspects in Rodin bust theftTwo men posing as tourists are believed to have stolen Man with the Broken Nose, a 25.5cm bronze bust worth around 2m kroner, in July
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Man admits swapping classic Chinese artworks for fakes he painted himselfXiao Yuan stole 143 works from the Guanghzou Academy of Fine Arts while working as its chief librarian, making £3.5m from auction sales
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Museums and looted art: the ethical dilemma of preserving world culturesHow can western ‘universal’ museums acquire and display artefacts without stoking the illegal arts trade and reproducing colonialist narratives?
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China rounds up ancient tomb raidersPolice say highly organised group broke into Neolithic tombs and carried out theft on an industrial scale, with 1,168 relics recovered in swoop by 1,000 police
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Stolen 15th-century Torbryan church icons recovered by policeHoly Trinity church in Devon faces £7,000 costs to restore icons hacked out of their panels by thieves in 2013
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How Nazis’ stolen art sparked a battle for the Woman in GoldHelen Mirren’s new film sees her playing Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee who took on the Austrian government in the fight for a Klimt painting that was looted from her family
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Italian police seize £11m Picasso from pensioner who claims it was a giftSpecialist artefacts unit tries to establish true owner of 1912 painting from artist’s Cubist period, which former frame-maker says he was given in 1978
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Happy Christmas! Stolen Picasso posted to New York by FedExThe 1911 painting La Coiffeuse, worth at least $2.5m, found by US customs officers in a parcel marked Joyeux Noël
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Native American artist’s work worth $33,000 found in New Mexico meth labPrints by acclaimed painter Alfred Momaday believed to be stolen but police have yet to trace original owner
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Thieves walk out of Madrid gallery with 70 paintingsTheft from Puerta de Alcalá art gallery happened overnight, with perpetrators apparently propping their haul against trees before loading it into a van
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Albert Tucker forgery: Christie's ordered to pay $100,000 for failing to alert buyerNew South Wales supreme court judge says auction house was told of concerns after painting sold for $75,000 yet it said nothing to buyer Louise McBride
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Is the Gurlitt collection so precious we forget its dubious heritage?Nigel Warburton: The moral philosopher: The paintings left to Bern Museum by Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Nazi-era collector, may have strictly speaking been legally acquired but many were seized from Jewish owners
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Monet landscape found in late German collector's suitcaseTaskforce looking into Cornelius Gurlitt's collection says it will check whether the work was stolen by Nazis
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Stolen Indian statue, Shiva Nataraja, to go home during Tony Abbott visitThe prime minister will hand back the $5.6m, 900-year-old statue to India at a formal reception on Friday
Jonathan Jones on art Dashing rogues? No, art thieves are boring goons