On the morning of August 22, 1911, a Louvre employee walked up to the spot where the Mona Lisa should have hung - and found only four empty hooks. At first he assumed someone had taken it down for photography. Within an hour, the museum was locked down and Paris was in panic. Ironically, the world had never cared much about the Mona Lisa until the moment she vanished. Before the Heist: A Quiet Life in the Louvre Leonardo da Vinci brought the painting to France himself in the early 1500s while...

The night was cold, the streets empty. Two masked men crept toward an elegant apartment located in the finest neighborhood in Stockholm, Östermalm. Guns in hand, they moved with purpose. Inside, a family slept unaware that their home was about to be violated. For the thieves, this was no ordinary burglary. They were after something precious — a piece of Swedish art history. Minutes later, the apartment erupted into chaos. Threats were shouted, hands were bound and a gun pointed to the owner's...

Day 1 Has it really been ten years as a professional artist? In 2015, I started my first art school. Before that, I worked as a tattoo artist but I felt creatively stuck — repeating myself and doing only custom work. A colleague encouraged me to apply to art schoo l so I did and was accepted a few weeks later. The school offered two semesters: sculpting, figure drawing, art history, and more. It ended with a three-week free project where we could create anything we wanted — the starting...