NYTIMES (Robin Pogrebin) - Trump Administration Outlines Plan for Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum
In a letter, the Interior Department detailed what it hoped to convey on 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History.
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Thieves armed with power tools steal Renoir paintings from French Riviera museum
Two masked thieves cut through fencing and sliced paintings from their frames at a Renoir museum on the French Riviera, escaping with two works still valued at millions, the latest in a pattern of brazen art heists across France. The alarm at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a coastal town near Nice in southern France, […] The post Thieves armed with power tools steal Renoir paintings from French Riviera museum appeared first on American Almanac .
Two masked thieves cut through fencing and sliced paintings from their frames at a Renoir museum on the French Riviera, escaping with two works still valued at millions, the latest in a pattern of brazen art heists across France. The alarm at the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a coastal town near Nice in southern France, sounded at 5:48 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Municipal police reached the scene five minutes later, at 5:53 a.m. By then, the thieves had already cut through wire fencing around the grounds, entered the museum, and removed four paintings from their frames using an electric knife and a metal saw. Surveillance cameras captured two hooded figures fleeing across the property, and dropping stolen artwork as they ran. Two of…Open
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Former jewel thief breaks down major French art heist: Why stealing paintings isn't worth it
An investigation is underway after another major art theft in France. Two works by renowned French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir were stolen during an early morning heist at a small museum on the French Riviera. Former jewel thief Larry Lawton joined "Katie Pavlich Tonight" and explained why art theft isn't always about the money. "Katie Pavlich Tonight" offers a conservative take on the day’s events while welcoming all viewpoints. The goal: cutting through left-right bias in pursuit of plain facts and honest analysis.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Alicia Sitz) - Experts say Renoir thieves face difficult path to profit
"The real art in an art heist is not the stealing. It's the selling," Wittman said.
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - Four Renoir paintings stolen from French art museum, but thieves drop two as they flee
Cagnes-sur-Mer Mayor Bryan Masson's office said the heist only took a total of five minutes, and that four of the Renoir Museum's 12 Renoir paintings were removed from their frames. The museum is located in southern France.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Thieves steal Renoir paintings worth millions from French museum
As part of a brazen heist that ended within minutes, thieves used an electric saw to cut four paintings from their frames at the Renoir Museum in southern France. While they were forced to abandon two of the paintings while fleeing, the robbers still made off with two others worth a combined $2.5 million.
NYTIMES (Ségolène Le Stradic) - Thieves Steal Artworks From Renoir Museum in France
Almost a year after the brazen Louvre heist, thieves targeted a museum that was formerly the artist’s home in the south of France.
NYTIMES (Deborah Solomon) - Mary Heilmann, Painter of Vividly Wobbly Abstractions, Dies at 86
An emblem of the obstacles faced by women artists of her generation, she was 67 when her first museum retrospective opened to rave reviews in 2007.
NYTIMES (John Yoon) - 8 Matisse Works, Looted from Library in Brazil, Are Recovered
The prints by the French master were taken in São Paulo last year in a brazen daylight heist.
WASHINGTONPOST (Victoria Craw, Grey Battle) - Picasso stolen from Milwaukee gallery returned eight years later
The famous 1949 print of a bullfighter disappeared from the building’s lobby in 2018. It was dropped at a local police station this week.