Photo: #The cover of "Stealing Rembrandts."

The artlessness of art theft

Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/21/2011, 10:06 a.m.

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Art theft is one of the profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors. But art heists are not always as clever as they appears in the movies. A new book reveals some of the actors involved in the great Rembrandt heists of the past century, and their often clumsy methods.

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