The most famous art forgery crime in history is the 1945 case of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, who was initially arrested for treason. He was accused of selling authentic works by Vermeer, the ...

A New Jersey father and daughter have pleaded guilty to a multi-year art forgery scheme involving fake works by Warhol, Banksy, Picasso and Native American artists. Prosecutors say the pair sold over ...

Two Carabinieri officers with the Unit for the Protection of Cultural Heritage with a display of counterfeit Banksy artworks uncovered in an art forgery investigation (all images courtesy Ministero ...

An evidence photo released by the Ontario Provincial Police of forgeries of Canadian Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau’s work – Copyright AFP Alessandro SERRANO ...

Italian police have dismantled a pan-European forgery network accused of producing and distributing replica artworks by more than 30 artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Andy ...

Ambitious, laborious, and nearly impossible to pull of without attracting plenty of suspicion from those in a position to know such things, art forgery occupies a strange corner of the white-collar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a spectacular contradiction at the heart of art forgery. Forgeries, which pretend to be paintings by timeless artists, ...

Fake works attributed to the artist Banksy found in a workshop and different points of sale, in Spain MADRID (Reuters) - Police in Spain have dismantled an art forgery ring suspected of selling ...

For years the art world has been rivited by the questions surrounding an unearthed cache of Abstract Expressionist paintings and drawings. The works took in a total of $80 million. Then, earlier this ...

It’s been a strange season for me, I have to admit. That’s the only excuse I can think of for why, although I usually devour each quarterly issue of Jacobin as soon as I find it in my mailbox, it’s ...

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 ...