Climate Activists’ Attacks on Paintings Add to Insurers’ Worries About Threats to Art November 28, 2022 By Carolyn Cohn, Noor Zainab Hussain and Barbara Lewis Climate activists’ attacks on some of the world’s most precious paintings have added to insurers’ worries about the threat to...
Trial Begins in January of Alleged Thieves of Dresden Jewelry, Worth $129M December 30, 2021 BERLIN (AP) – Six men will go on trial in Germany next month over their alleged role in the spectacular...
Three Arrested for Dresden Museum Theft – But Jewelry Is Still Missing November 18, 2020 By David Rising BERLIN – More than 1,500 police carried out a series of searches in Berlin and arrested three people in a...
American Impressionist Painting Missing Since 1995 Turns Up at Museum Exhibit September 9, 2020 By Jim Sams A painting by American artist Robert Spencer, missing since 1995, was recovered after a Pennsylvania art museum included it in...
A Picasso, an $18M Hole, a Casino Owner, an Auctioneer, an Insurer and a Contractor June 23, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Insurance specialist LeConte Moore and professional fine art appraiser Vincent Wiener deal with high-profile performers and artists and their works...
Generali Digitizes Art Insurance, Offering Collectors Remote Evaluation of Artworks May 20, 2020 ARTE Generali, Generali Group’s business unit that provides art insurance to collectors, has unveiled a new app, which offers remote...
Van Gogh Theft Focuses Attention on Empty Museums’ Security During COVID-19 Crisis April 8, 2020 By Katya Kazakina, Tom Metcalf and Amanda Gordon The break-in lasted just minutes. At 3 a.m. on Monday, a thief — or thieves — forced open the glass...
Art Thefts, Such as Dresden Jewelry Heist, Are Here to Stay: Opinion December 4, 2019 By Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg Opinion The management of Dresden’s Green Vault, where the biggest museum heist in post-World War II German history took place on...
Germany’s Green Vault Museum Finds It’s Uninsured for $1 Billion Theft of Jewels November 27, 2019 By Stefan Nicola A day after burglars made off with priceless jewels from a German museum, pressure is growing on police to find...
Thieves Steal Priceless Items from Dresden’s Treasury Green Vault; Hiscox Comments November 26, 2019 Thieves have carried out a heist at Dresden’s Green Vault, one of the world’s oldest museum containing priceless treasures and...