Since everyone knows the paintings are stolen, it's impossible to sell them at auction. How do thieves profit from a high-profile art heist? The black market. Most stolen artwork goes underground.

Take it from a former FBI agent who made a career out of busting art thieves: The reason crooks steal priceless paintings like the two Van Gogh works that were recently recovered in Italy is ...

Victor Higgins' "Aspens" and Joseph Henry Sharp’s "Oklahoma Cheyenne" had been missing since March 1985, when they were snatched in broad daylight ...

THIS IS NOT STOPPING TOMORROW’S EXHIBIT. MELLWOOD ART GALLERY HONORS THE WORK OF LOCAL ARTISTS. NOW THIS SIDE ISN’T SUPPOSED TO BE A BLANK CANVAS, BUT THIEVES RECENTLY STRUCK DURING AN EVENT ...

gallery directors and art experts. The reason: six paintings were missing, and two more had been slightly damaged. The thieves had stolen Frans Hals’s portraits of Isaak Abrahamsz Massa ...

Then Stoddard confirmed the worst: The thieves had made off with several paintings from the extensive collection that filled ...

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — During an event at Mellwood Art Center on Sunday, surveillance cameras caught four alleged thieves stealing artwork. It happened just before 3 a.m., and the video ...