Who stole Sweet Emma? That question haunted New Orleans artist MJ Robitaille for 13 years, ever since her life-size plywood painting of Sweet Emma Barrett, a jazz pianist, singer and Preservation Hall icon, disappeared from the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience in City Park. Sweet Emma, Robitaille assumed, was gone forever. And then, in March, she…
By CLAIRE SAVAGE, The Associated Press/Report for America CHICAGO (AP) — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz…
CHICAGO — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a…
During World War II in Germany, an American soldier stole a baroque landscape painting created by 18th-century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer. The family of the solider contacted Art Recovery International to return the stolen painting in what a German museum curator said was a rare moment. Nearly 80 years after the painting went…
LONDON — A Dutch art detective has helped recover a missing Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum, east of Amsterdam, in March 2020. The “Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring,” painted in 1884, was stolen from the famous Dutch museum in a daring overnight smash-and-grab heist during the coronavirus…
A business owner’s keen eye helped police seize $100,000 in flooring that was fraudulently purchased. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Kelowna, B.C., RCMP say a local business contacted them last week about a possible scam. The scam involved a man purchasing a large amount of hardwood flooring using fake identification and a stolen…
