Frenchman Stéphane Breitwieser was an art junkie, and to get his fix, he stole some 239 works of art with an estimated value of a whopping $2 billion — from as many as 200 museums all over Europe. One ...
In an exclusive excerpt from The Art Thief, gentleman burglar Stéphane Breitwieser committed more than 200 heists across Europe, stealing some $2 billion worth of art. But as fraught as his burglaries ...
In a new book, Michael Finkel tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, “perhaps the most successful and prolific art thief who has ever lived.” By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich When you purchase an ...
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world's most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. - "The Art Thief, ...
At first blush, the journalist Michael Finkel’s captivating new book, “The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession,” is all about heists. Over the course of 200-some ...
After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...
Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s.
O’Connor is no stranger to playing an art thief, and his understated performance finds compelling shades of a man who commits ...