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art theft

act of stealing pieces of art
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Summary

art theft is a field of work[1]. It draws 1,113 Wikipedia views per month (field of work category, ranking #18 of 52).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: theft[3]
  • Commons category: Stolen property[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Stolen works of art[5]
  • Described at URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/arts/design/british-museum-theft.html[6]
  • Described by source: Q121366773[7]
  • Practiced by: art thief[8]

Why It Matters

art theft has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum São Paulo Museum of Art

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16h ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX544666
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX544666"
  2. 11d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, 0358785-kradeze-umeleckych-del
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'hy', 'id', 'it', 'ko', '
    Harper's tag → art-thefts
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: art-thefts, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909874|art thefts (#289909874)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, 0358785-kradeze-umeleckych-del
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0210727-kradeze-umeleckych-predmetu, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Q121366773
    Subclass of → —
    Practiced by → art thief
    Subclass of → theft
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007294792105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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