What’s in a forgery? More than you would expect, according to a new show at London’s Courtauld Gallery. Opening June 17, “Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection” brings together paintings, ...

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 ...

Forgery in the manner of John Constable (1776–1837), "Seascape," watercolor, The Courtauld, London (all images courtesy Samuel Courtauld Trust) LONDON — A certain romanticism surrounds art forgery.

Are there more great artists or great art forgers? Statistics are hard to come by, but when an art forgery is uncovered, the likelihood is that one man or, more rarely, a woman, was producing multiple ...

Art forgery is alive and thriving, even here in 2026. Dealers revealed that as many as 95 percent of Russian avant-garde paintings currently in circulation aren’t legitimate, a staggering figure that ...

Forgeries are a lucrative global market created by artists so skilled in both their craft and their duplicity that they sometimes fool even the experts. Curators at the Taft Museum of Art are using ...

With its longer forms of storytelling, the podcast is sufficiently supple to investigate the labyrinthine qualities of art forgery, the peculiar celebrity of the art forger, and the modern obsession ...

There’s a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, hang in museums all over the world; there are more of them than anyone ...

Prologue : James Cahill, Art historian and forger -- Introduction : Zhang Taijie, the greatest art collector in Chinese history? -- The literary making of the past : reading history from forged texts ...

Actor Alec Baldwin is returning to the public spotlight with a podcast about art. Specifically, the name of his new podcast is Art Fraud. The series, the first two episodes of which dropped today on ...

Sheila Sharpe, debut crime novelist and former Del Mar Community Connections (DMCC) board member, will discuss her art forgery thriller “Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief” at a special reception hosted by ...