heist

The Louvre heist revealed that thieves are increasingly stealing gold, bronze and jewels more than traditional paintings—a turnabout from a century ago when a thief stole its “Mona Lisa,” later recovered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In August, paintings by Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse were stolen from a museum in Italy, in a heist that lasted just three minutes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Fashion heist films watched in a black box theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

PARIS—A pair of thieves stole four artworks from a French museum dedicated to the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in a sign of the country’s struggle to protect its cultural heritage following last year’s Louvre heist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

It felt weird leaving the others behind, but they were fighting so we could attempt this heist.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

A spate of heists at French museums, including at the Louvre, has highlighted inadequate security in some cases and led to questions about whether criminal gangs see them as soft targets.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

In one of the NBA’s all-time heists, Pelinka brought the then-25-year-old Slovenian superstar to L.A. from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for essentially an aging and injury-prone Anthony Davis and just one first-round draft pick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 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

She wasn’t investigating the jewelry heists and grave robbing I’d read about in the newspapers.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Basically, the big internet platforms gobble up news outlets’ products and work without paying for it and build their own ad programs around the heisted articles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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

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

In fact, heisting Manhattan turns out to be less farfetched than it sounds.

From Time Magazine Archive