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The Vanishing Brief - 10/24/25
This week in The Vanishing Brief, we discuss some recent headlines in the art crime world including the recent Louvre Heist, a Picasso painting gone missing in transit, and a Nazi-looted painting discovered in an Argentine real estate listing.
“I am not murdered, and I am not missing, but parts of me have been disappeared.” - Leanne Simpson
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Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/europe/france-louvre-jewel-heist.html
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/europe/robbery-louvre-paris-france-museum-closure-intl
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/picasso-work-missing-madrid-granada-1234757797/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/europe/louvre-heist-items.html
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/nazi-looted-portrait-real-estate-listing-argentina-2681421
https://hyperallergic.com/1051349/french-museum-reports-theft-one-day-after-louvre-heist/
https://hyperallergic.com/1051113/the-louvre-heist-was-a-colonial-wake-up-call/