Art crime is woven throughout museums, galleries and private collections alike. From forgeries to the theft of its most valuable painting, the University of Arizona Museum of Art has an art crime ...
Can’t get enough of the current Old Master forgery scandal? As artnet News awaits new details about the potentially $225-million in fakes and who might be responsible, we’re turning to our book ...
Two things instantly came to mind while reading “The Art of Forgery,” Noah Charney’s insightful and fast-paced book about fakes and forgeries in the art world. The first question is if someone can ...
Most forgeries get exposed and forgotten. The fraudster is disgraced, the document is shelved in an archive somewhere, and history moves on without it. The Donation of Constantine did not follow that ...
There are 11 suspects in the investigation, including a 77-year-old ringleader. Patrick Haggenmueller, head of the Art Investigation Unit of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, stands next to ...