The robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990 is the biggest modern art theft to date. The robbers masqueraded as police and managed to dupe the night guards and in a relaxed manners were able to steal dozens of works of art while they took eighty-one minutes and multiple trips to their car. They wore no masks, it was all on video, and the guards distinctly remember their faces. That only adds to the mystery of how these two men were able to calmly and methodically steal these seemingly random (not the most valuable in the gallery) works of art through alarms and safety triggers sounding. There has been no real trace of either these men or of the the stolen works in any world market or private collection. Private investigators do though have over 10,000 leads, none of which are at all guaranteed accurate or have led to any findings so far. Join discussion...

Joe Medeiros was struck by the robbery in 1911 of the Mona Lisa by Vincenzo Peruggia. As a filmmaker and writer, he was determined to turn it into some kind of film. As he was researching it for a documentary though, he found out that the story really had a lot more to it. Peruggia, an Italian, was bringing the painting back to Florence, Italy as an act of patriotism, holding that Napoleon stole the painting from Italy. To Peruggia, he was only reclaiming Italy's lost property. Medeiros still dug deeper and found that Francis I had in fact purchased the piece from Da Vinci and it was indeed French property. The painting was returned and Peruggia caught, but not before the Mona Lisa toured Italy and before Peruggia became something of a national celebrity, receiving all sorts of food and wine while in jail. Peruggia was only imprisoned for a little over a year, though he died soon after in WW1. Medeiros though, still holds that there is a lot left unsolved. After all, how did Peruggia outsmart all the guards and police and walk out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa? And was patriotism his only reason behind it? Did he act alone? How did he actually leave the museum? Medeiros claims that he has dug and found the answers, but those will be kept secret until the film. Join discussion...

French officials with the French Interior Ministry have reportedly discovered a ring that trafficked in stolen art, and so far more than one hundred valuable pieces have been reported stolen from various places by the network. Three suspects are being held, but no information was given about who they are or specifically what art was stolen. Join discussion...

I'm sure a lot of people wrote on this topic, but I realized that I had never actually heard the full story, so I decided to research t myself. The two paintings found, Monet's "Poppies near Vetheuil" an Van Gogh's "Blossoming Chestnut Branch" were two of the four paintings stolen from an art museum from Zurich. The two paintngs were found in an abandoned whte car outside of a psychiatric hospital. The police were tipped off as to the locaton of these paintings by an employee of the hospital. Both paintings are reported to be in good condition, and rewards are still out for any information leading to the locating of the remaining two paintings. Join discussion...

In April, 250 of California artist John Cosby's paintings were stolen out of his home. Recently a collector of his work discovered one of the paintings, titled "An Honest Living," on Ebay. The collector notified Cosby, who told the police. Two men were arrested for the theft of the paintings and are on trial now. The rest of the paintings were found in the men's apartment and a storage facility. Join discussion...