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In Miami, Missing Picasso Is Still Missing

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This year's Miami Art Week festivities have just wrapped up and most events can boast record breaking attendance. But there was something missing - a work by Picasso that disappeared at the art fair last year: a silver plate called “Visage aux Mains” with an etching of a face and hands worth $85,000.

Art crimes make up a $6 billion industry worldwide and if stolen art doesn’t turn up within the first six months, it could be a long, long time before it does. Wilson Sayre from Here & Now contributor network WLRN reports from Miami.

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This segment aired on December 9, 2015.

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