The biggest art heists of the 20th Century
Friday 21 May 2010
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With yesterday's theft of £86 million worth of art from Paris' Museum of Modern Art being called called the "heist of the century," The Independent Online looks back at the major art thefts of the 20th Century.
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- 2 BANNED: The most controversial films
- 3 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 4 Rich art collectors 'know the price of everything – and the value of nothing'
- 5 Trending: Multiple award winners
- 6 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 7 The artist vandalising advertising with poetry
- 1 How Koscielny became prince of the Emirates
- 2 Apple admits it has a human rights problem
- 3 Spotify: 1 million plays, £108 return
- 4 Six Grammys, five years off: Adele puts love before career
- 5 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 6 Police confiscate passport from Brooks' assistant
- 7 Nauru and Abkhazia: One is a destitute microstate marooned in the South Pacific, the other is a disputed former Soviet Republic 13,000km away, so why are they so keen to be friends?
- 8 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 9 Mark Steel: If religion is 'marginal', I'm the Pope
- 10 Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics
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