Andy Warhol Prints Damaged During Botched Gallery Heist in Netherlands

Thieves targeted an art gallery in the southern Netherlands on Friday, successfully making off with two screen prints by the late American visual artist Andy Warhol. Two of Warhol’s other works were damaged during the theft, which occurred at the MPV Gallery, a contemporary art gallery located in Oisterwijk in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The gallery’s owner, Mark Peet Visser, said the thieves used explosives to break into the building, executing a brazen heist that was recorded on security cameras. “The bomb attack was so violent that my entire building was destroyed,” Visser said, noting that the blast was so intense it damaged other shops along the street....