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Inside the Gardner Case
After two decades of tips, leads, hunches, forensic tests, psychic visions, and jailhouse confessions, the biggest art heist in history is still unsolved. Read More
How to Buy in 2009
Experts explain where the values are—and what to avoid—in the current market. Read More
Are Museum Trustees Out of Step?
For all the talk about educating museum directors in the new challenges of the job, many say board members could use some training as well. Read More
‘The Scream,’ the Thief, and the 2 Million M&M’s
Stolen masterpieces are priceless and worthless at the same time—they’re too hot to sell, and have limited use as collateral. But one criminal tried to use them to sweeten his sentence. Read More
55,000 Signatures and Counting
Starting with the Old Masters and continuing through the present, John Castagno has documented signatures, monograms, and initials—most of them readable, some of them strange or illegible—and published them in ten books. Read More
Top Ten ARTnews Stories: A Modernist Manifesto
In "The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art," Meyer Schapiro explained why abstraction in painting and sculpture was so revolutionary. Three decades later, he finally consented to sit for a lengthy profile. Read More
Top Ten ARTnews Stories: Making a Difference
It began with Andrew Decker’s article on Austria’s halfhearted attempts to return thousands of artworks stolen from Holocaust victims. Our coverage has influenced cultural policy and helped make war loot a major international issue. Read More
The 2006 Top 10 Collectors
“Collectors are suffering from cognitive dissonance,” said Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul and one of the world’s top art collectors. “They’re struggling intellectually. They know that their paintings are worth more than they paid for them and … Read More
‘Fools, Show-offs, and Trophy Hunters’
The art thieves in western Europe, says one expert, are mainly the Balkan Bandits. Read More
