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

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.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-tiny-picasso-painting-went-missing-while-traveling-to-an-exhibition-in-spain-180987533/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/europe/louvre-heist-items.html

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-museum-closed-staff-protest-inadequate-security-1234757928/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/18th-century-portrait-stolen-by-nazis-recovered-in-argentina

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/