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Opinion: Why We Need to Get Serious About Art Theft

(April 13) -- Twenty years ago this March, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 artworks, including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer worth as much as $500 million. And while there's a $5 million reward for the missing art -- investigators have run down leads from Tokyo to an antiques...

Man Charged With Selling Stolen Warhol

(Nov. 23) - In the pop art world, the provocative Andy Warhol made a big splash. On Monday, one of his classic works proved his 15 minutes are far from over. Federal authorities announced Nov. 23 they had charged James S. Biear, 49, of Ossining, N.Y., with stealing a Warhol work -- a silkscreen on a wooden crate mimicking...