Art Theft Archive Newsletter

Volume 1, No. 2

February 1979

The Case for Notoriety
— B. Burnham
Metropolitan Museum Greek marble Head is recovered the day after its theft, probably because of the high degree of publicity the theft received

Alert to Store-Front Dealers
A second bout of art thefts this year has plagued New York art and antique dealers, from violent gunpoint confrontations to shoplifting - all possibly linked by dealers' participation in January's New York Winter Antiques show.