Art heists seem to be growing

MS NOW -  On Sunday night, March 22, four masked men forced open the front door to the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, a private art collection nestled in the fields of northern Italy. In less than three minutes, the thieves climbed the stairs, turned left, and entered the French Room, where they grabbed three paintings off the wall: “Les Poissons” (1917) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; “Still Life with Cherries”(1890) by Paul Cézanne; and “Odalisque on the Terrace” (1922) by Henri Matisse...

ARTNews reported that 2025 was “seemingly a record year for art theft.” The Magnani-Rocca robbery is the latest in a string of thefts targeting museums over the past year or so, what the Economic Times described as “part of a broader pattern … [of] high-profile museum burglaries.” The most famous is the Louvre robbery from last October, when a group of individuals hacked their way into the museum in broad daylight and made off with jewelry valued at roughly $100 million.