Top Ten Art Thefts

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Top Ten Art Thefts as ranked by the FBI at http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/arttheft.htm

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Theft of Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise	2
Theft from E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich	1
Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco	1
Theft of the Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius	0
The Van Gogh Museum Robbery	0
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft	0
Theft of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Murals, Panels 3-A and 3-B	0
Theft from the Museu Chacara do Céu	0
Theft of Van Mieris's A Cavalier	0
Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts	0

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:07 (seventeen years ago)

Can't decide to go with either the Stradivarius or the Museu Chacara (for the cool Dali)

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/topten/images/dali.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:09 (seventeen years ago)

I also want a big-letter FBI windbreaker with the Art Crime logo

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/images/act200.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

Went with the Cezanne due to wacky Y2K hijinks tie-breaker.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

The Klimt theft, because it the museum just got knocked over like a 7-11 and the paintings weren't even insured because how you gonna replace a unique artifact?

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

Shit, not Klimt...Munch.

Brain broke.

― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Monday, 16 February 2009 22:54 (seventeen years ago)

no Just Judges, no credibility

― if you like it then you shoulda put a donk on it (bernard snowy), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:44 (seventeen years ago)

ART CRIME!??!?!?! OMG, get me a hi res of that, I will MAKE MINE OWN t-shirt.

WANT!!!

― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:51 (seventeen years ago)

no Just Judges, no credibility

Take it up with the FBI.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

More to the point, there's a ton of missing art (Amber Room, etc.) that would make for a much bigger list.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 16 February 2009 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

Huh... I didn't realize that the Giger's original painting for Brain Salad Surgery was stolen in 2005 and is still missing.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

ART CRIME!??!?!?! OMG, get me a hi res of that, I will MAKE MINE OWN t-shirt.
WANT!!!

I've already emailed them if they sold any shirts/coffee mugs.

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

The problem is, when I hear art crime, I don't think of theft, I think of, like, buildings with Corinthian columns down one side and Ionic down the other. Or, you know, using non-Fibonacci proportions in a figure study or something.

― Questionable Rock-Frog (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:16 (seventeen years ago)

Not on the list, but I'm all about the theft and recovery of Cellini's salt cellar.

― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

that logo is an art crime unto itself

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 00:27 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 29 March 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Shouldn't the list include the guy who stole Mona Lisa and wasn't caught until two years later?

― Tuomas, Monday, 30 March 2009 08:49 (seventeen years ago)

not according to the FBI

― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 March 2009 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, I see, they're only listing unsolved art thefts.

― Tuomas, Monday, 30 March 2009 09:00 (seventeen years ago)

i prefer art forgery. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren)

― Ludo, Monday, 30 March 2009 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 30 March 2009 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

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