heist
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Eight colorful prints by modern master Henri Matisse that were stolen last year from a Brazilian library during an armed daytime heist have been recovered and safely returned, São Paulo police said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
They reportedly entered the library by its main entrance mid-morning and headed towards the nearest metro station following the heist.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Last year’s local productions included “The Hawk,” the jewelry heist drama “Nemesis” and new seasons of L.A.-centric shows such as “Nobody Wants This” and “The Lincoln Lawyer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The Apollo Gallery of Paris's Louvre Museum, where French crown jewels worth 88 million euros were stolen in 2025 in a brazen heist, will reopen to the public on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
The theft of the Mona Lisa—the art heist of the century—was discovered because Louis Béroud got bored.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Not since Cary Grant in “To Catch a Thief” has there been a more charismatic and lovable “villain,” not to mention some pretty great heists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The heists have prompted calls for better security to protect valuable artworks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
"She would do anything for her family - and she joins them as a way to protect them from themselves and the real danger that is involved in heists."
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The rest of Europe has seen four known museum heists over the past year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Art heists are almost always the work of amateurs, and there’s nothing dashing or romantic about these thieves.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
The culprit: the big internet and social media platforms that grab news outlets’ work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2024
The saga of Kelly’s heisted honeybees would rattle the beekeeper and the clients who sought his specially bred bees.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
The interface for the Archive looks like a set of old file cabinets that might have been heisted from an old-time bail bondsman’s office.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2019
During the latter stages of the LP’s production, the Beatles famously heisted one of EMI Studios’ experimental eight-track machines and produced several tracks with that more expansive sound palette.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2018
The lid was heisted, and mighty well it was.
From Successful Recitations by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles
In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The instrumental track "You Wish" beautifully invokes the spirit of Hendrix's "All Along The Watchtower" without ever wholesale heisting the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
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