The 50 Greatest Art Heists of all Time
By Courtney Willis | Feb 17, 2011 | 1:07 pm | Permalink
By Courtney Willis
Stealing art is a billion-dollar industry, and it’s no secret you have to be clever, creative, and a bit crazy to pull it off. The risks are high—felony jail time, damage to art, restitution fees, market deficiency, angry crime bosses—and the reward is hardly ever the million dollar-filled fantasy imagined, but the glamour of the art heist has fascinated humans since the beginning of time. This list is not a Hollywood throwdown: no Catherine Zeta-Jones, no Julia Roberts, no Pierce Brosnan. But if you click on, we can promise speedboats, million dollar watches, machine guns, and fake mustaches. Add that to some incredible criminal minds (and some incredibly dumb ones), and you have our list of the greatest art heists in history. Click on the tumbnails and arrows above to view the countdown.
Steven February 18th, 2011 at 04:04 AM
First off this is a pretty terrible article, its is interesting but some one who reads this article will most likely want to hear what happened to the painting, how it was stole or how the authority's have no idea wtf happened. Instead this article is a complete let down it says the very lest amount about each heist possible and a in a few case nothing about the heist at all. Secondly, who gave the writer of this article this list of heist? because its utterly uninteresting these are some of the lamest heist I've ever heard off and as someone who is pretty well verst in art history I have to say check your facts some of these aren't even true.
dr.octogon February 19th, 2011 at 12:21 AM
While I agree with your sentiment Steven, you have the spelling and grammer of someone severely mentally challenged.
Big Red Machine February 19th, 2011 at 02:04 PM
While I agree with you, doctor, I must point out that you spelled GRAMMAR wrong. That might be the funniest shit I have seen in a while. Irony is a bitch.
LFMAO@dr.octogon December 11th, 2011 at 04:58 AM
LMFAO @ dr.octogon What a fucking fail OMG you must feel so stupid right now!