The AGNSW van Mieris theft: what a daylight heist still teaches

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

Seventeen years on, a small 17th-century Dutch painting is still missing from a Sydney gallery wall, and nobody has ever been charged. That’s the plain, uncomfortable fact sitting behind the 2007 theft of Frans van Mieris’s A Cavalier from the Art Gallery of New South Wales. It happened during opening hours, in a room full […]