Category: Theft
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How to Steal Three Gold Boxes from the British Museum
Has stealing ever crossed your mind? Have you ever considered stealing something exciting like a work of art from a famous museum? Well, this might just be a good outlet for you. The British Museum has roughly 8 million items in their collection; however, only about 80,000 items are on display at the same time.…
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Nunc est Furari!
(Loosely translated to “Now Let’s Steal!”) Monday morning, 9 AM. You’re sitting at your cubicle of your mundane corporate job. You’re underpaid and were just denied a raise — the last straw. You’re about to commit your first crime. You’ve been eyeing the poster in your boss’s office and started doing research. Nunc est Bibendum…
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Forgeries and False Confidence: Inside TikTok’s Biggest Art Scam
TikTok user @ActuallyKindaComplete is not really an art historian. @ActuallyKindaComplete doesn’t have a doctorate in anything or a mysteriously wealthy family member. The creator does not have much of a pedigree to speak of, let alone create a TikTok art education account with, but the creator didn’t let their lack of credentials stop them from…
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Portrait of a Protest: Theft, Power, and the Politics of Display
A Symbol Worth Stealing When a painting disappears, whose story finally shows up? Item of interest- General Andrew Jackson Portrait The Heist: Not for Profit—For Protest In a fictional act of resistance, General Andrew Jackson vanishes from the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this isn’t your average art theft, it’s a symbolic…
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The Beauty of Camille Monet was stolen!
The painting by Claude Monet was stolen. It was Camille Monet (1847–1879) in the Garden at Argenteuil at the Met. The Muse The muse, they were able to confuses many workers as well guards and turning off the security cameras. They was also able to walk around the museum really fast understanding where everything is.…
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Kidnapping William
“The guards were distracted, the crowds were full, and I was ready to commit a kidnapping” The guards were distracted, the crowds were full, and I was ready to commit a kidnapping. It was also, I must add, not a dark and stormy night. That would have reduced my crowd cover, and made it much…
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A Snuff Box Gets Snuffed
Getting a request It all started with a job request. My family is known for being in the art market, as some mafia families are. People come to us frequently now. We get jobs for soon to be stolen work, this job was no different. All he wanted was for us to steal a little…
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How Van Gogh Paid For My Tropical Vacation
“You’re hired!” The words were music to my ears. I, Evangeline Star, was in. My resume, although riddled with lies, had impressed the museum enough for me to slide through. I was now an archivist for the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with the access to steal a Van Gogh. This small but beautiful painting…
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The Heist of the Finger-Ring: A Hypothetical Art Theft
By Andrew Peters I am not a thief… But if I was this is how I would start my career. My target is one of the golden rings excavated from Thetford, Norfolk in 1979 that is currently housed at The British Museum, located at Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG. Below is one of those…
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Roosevelt is Rolling in His Grave
Last month, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery received Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential portrait in an inconspicuous brown package placed at the employee entrance. As I had hoped, the package caused quite a stir in the Washington D.C. area. and later, throughout the world as headlines hit the news outlets. Unfortunately for me, this mass media attention…